Concert
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki, Music Director
Early Music Guild
Town Hall, Seattle, WA
October 23, 2015, 8:00pm
Repeats:
Celebrity Series of Boston
Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
October 8, 2015, 3:00pm
An evocative and moving account of some baroque classics with several virtuoso solo performances.
Bach Collegium Japan:
Contemporary With Classic: Music With Flute, Clarinet and Piano
Concert
Brandeis University Concert Series
Slosberg Music Center
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Jill Dreeben, Flute
Todd Brunel, clarinet
Elizabeth Skavish, piano
October 18, 2015, 4:00pm
Works by John McDonald, John Kusiak, Sergei Prokofiev, John Armstrong, Libby Larsen
A delightful array of chamber works for the slightly arcane combination of flute, clarinet and piano, including two premieres, by Boston-area composers John Kusiak and John McDonald.
Steve Jobs
Film (2015)
Directed by Danny Boyle
Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
With Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg
A dramatic precis of the life and career of the great computer visionary and businessman told through three elongated vignettes.
Einstein’s Dreams
Play
Written and directed by
Wesley Savick
Based on the novel
Einstein’s Dreams (1993)
by Alan Lightman
Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
September 24 – November 14, 2015
A compendium of brief vignettes based on Einstein’s imagined musings on the subject of time.
He Named Me Malala
Film (2015)
Documentary
Directed by Davis Guggenheim
With Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Toor Pekai Yousafzai, Khushal Yousafzai, Atal Yousafzai
A vivid and endearing portrait of the now eighteen year old Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai, who in 2012 was a victim of Taliban aggression for her outspokenness regarding human rights, and who was the winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.