Free pops concert with Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra on Saturday
The Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra (LSCO) will open its 2014-15 season with a free pops concert as a part of the Sudbury375 Field Day Celebration on Saturday, Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. LSCO Executive Director Sudbury resident William Nicholson will conduct the LSCO, which includes regular members from Sudbury, Lincoln, Concord, Waltham, Lexington, Hudson, Andover, and Stow. This concert will also include musicians from the Concord Orchestra, Wellesley Symphony, Rivers Symphony Orchestra (Weston), Symphony Pro Musica (Hudson), and the Boston Philharmonic.
The program includes the West Side Story medley by Leonard Bernstein, the Carmen suite by Georges Bizet, a John Williams film medley, and works by Claude Debussy, John Phillip Sousa, and Gioachino Rossini. The headline guest artist is the emerging singer/songwriter Sarah Blacker, singing four of her own songs. Blacker performs These Summer Nights with the LSCO in an arrangement by Director Nicholson. Also appearing with the orchestra is Sudbury resident and classical guitarist Dave McLellan in Mason Williams’ Classical Gas. Featured in the Broadway medley Curtain Up are Sudbury natives Lindsey and Sara Nicholson. Admission is free and the concert will be followed by a fireworks display as the final celebration of Sudbury375.
LSCO is a volunteer community orchestra comprising high school students and adult community members who share a love for preparing and performing substantial orchestral repertoire. The members have classical music training at the intermediate to advanced level and rehearse weekly. Neither professional performing experience nor residence in Lincoln or Sudbury are requirements for membership. For more information about this concert or about participation as a performing member, contact the orchestra at lscivicorchestra@gmail.com or the press office at lsco.publicity@gmail.com.
The Lincoln Review wants your stories!
How does your garden grow? Got an overabundance of some crops and a piddly amount of others? The Lincoln Review would love to hear your garden stories—whether battles with the local wildlife, clever uses for oversize zucchini, tomato tales of heirloom and standard types, or similar items, up to 400 words in length. The deadline is Thursday, Sept. 4. Feel free to email questions or send your items to Betty Smith at ehsmith1@yahoo.com or Jeanne Bracken at jmbracken@verizon.net. Your neighbors thank you.
Live music at library starts next week
On Monday, Sept. 8, Julie Dougherty will perform at LOMA (Lincoln Open-Mike Acoustic). The event starts at 7 p.m. and Julie will play a half-hour set starting at about 8:30. Dougherty brings a haunting sensibility to her original songs and is a dynamic interpreter of Celtic, folk and country tunes. She has released four CDs, including two just last year: Land of Dreams and In This Place.
LOMA is a monthly event of acoustic music and spoken word. Performers can sign up at the event or email Rich Eilbert at loma3re@gmail.com before noon of the open-mike day for a slot. Names of those who are signed up by 7:15 p.m. will be drawn at random. We have a sound system with mikes and instrumental pickups suitable for individuals or small groups playing acoustic-style. Local high school and college-age residents are encouraged to perform and/or listen to their friends play acoustically. We expect everyone will have a chance to perform one or two pieces. Refreshments will be served.
This fall’s LOMA performers include:
- October 20 – The Wednesdays
- November 10 – The Rafters
- December 8 – Glenn Pettit
Domestic Violence roundtable meets
The Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable will meet on Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 3 p.m. in the Wayland Public Safety Building (36 Cochituate Rd., Wayland). Lori Hodin, coordinator of the Safe Schools Initiative and psychology teacher at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, will discuss the successful “The Courage to Care” teen summit at L-S last spring that was co-sponsored by the Roundtable. The agenda will also include planning the 2014-2015 calendar.
The Roundtable is a community-based nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting safe and healthy relationships, raising public awareness about abusive and controlling behaviors whether exhibited through bullying, teen dating violence, domestic violence, or elder abuse, and ending relationship violence in all its forms. The group pursues these goals by educating our communities, supporting agencies that provide services to victims of abuse, and mobilizing community leaders. Learn about the dynamics of relationship violence, help distribute information to those who need it, and plan and coordinate a collection for shelters. For more information, email infodvrt@gmail.com.
Outcasts and edible wild plants on tap at library
John Florio and Emmy Award-winning Ouisie Shapiro will give a talk on “Outcasts, Misfits and Society: Building Characters in Fiction and Nonfiction” on Monday, Sept. 15 from 7-8:30 p.m. at the library. Florio and Shapiro will discuss why outcasts make interesting characters in modern-day storytelling and will read from their book, One Punch from the Promised Land: Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks and the Myth of the Heavyweight Title. John will also read from his new crime novel Blind Moon Alley. Copies of both books will be available for purchase.
Florio was raised in Flushing, N.Y., and is a graduate of Fordham University. He holds an MBA from St. John’s University, an MA from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine. His greatest influences are Raymond Chandler, Humphrey Bogart and the Hardy Boys. Shapiro, a native of Newton, Mass., is a five-time Emmy award winning writer/producer with 25 years of experience in sports television. Her credits for HBO sports include Nine Innings from Ground Zero; Lombardi and Namath:Beaver Falls to Broadway. She holds a BA from Boston University and an MA in journalism from New York University.
On Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m., the library will present its annual “green” program, “Edible Wild Plants of the Northeast,” with John Root, who will speak on identifying and using wild plants for food and beverages as well as habitats, preparation, and nutritional and medicinal properties of our wild plants. Plants will be available for purchase.
These programs are supported in part by grant from the Lincoln Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Wellness clinics for all ages start Sept. 12
Lincoln residents of all ages are invited to meet with a nurse through a free town service. Come get your blood pressure and/or body mass index checked, ask questions, or learn about wellness resources. Clinics will be held at the Community Building at Lincoln Woods (50 Wells Rd.) from 10 a.m. to noon on four Fridays: September 12, October 3, November 7 and December 5. These clinics are funded by the Ogden Codman Trust and provided by Emerson Hospital Home Care. For more information, please call the Council on Aging at 781-259-8811.