Concert, Film
Donal Fox, piano
Screening of Jazz Saved My Life about Justin Freed
Maria Schneider Orchestra Quartet
Featuring Gary Versace, piano; Scott Robinson, woodwinds; Jay Anderson, bass; Johnathan Blake, drums
Coolidge Corner Theater
Brookline, MA
December 1, 2022
An evening rich with wonderful jazz and a biographical film about artist and jazz impresario Justin Freed, former owner and concert programmer of the Coolidge Corner Theater, with a special interest in jazz as a healing force.
Lectures and Panel Discussions
On Beckett
Performance (2022)
Conceived and performed by Bill Irwin
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center
Theater District, Boston
October 28-30, 2022
A stupendous performance by the brilliant mime and actor Bill Irwin who leads a scintillating tour through works of Samuel Beckett, illuminating them with incisive commentary and hysterically funny clowning.
Roundtable on Chess:
Bobby Fischer, the Fischer-Spassky World Championship, and the new film
Pawn Sacrifice
Panel Discussion
Michael Cavallo, Chris Chase,
Eric Godin
A roundtable discussion with local chess wizards on the attractions of the game, the trials and tribulations of American chess genius Bobby Fischer, his celebrated championship match with the Soviet Boris Spassky in 1972, and the new film, Pawn Sacrifice, starring Tobey Maguire as Fischer and Liev Schreiber as Spassky.
Little World
Film (2013)
Directed by Marcel Barrena
Paramount Center
ReelAbilities Film Festival (February 19 – March 2, 2015)
Boston, MA
Lecture and Discussion with
Richard Greenberg,
Michigan Supreme Court
Jason Harris,
Jason’s Connection
A fascinating and uplifting documentary portrait of Albert Casals, a twenty year old from Barcelona in a wheelchair who travels the world without money.
An Evening with Hershey Felder
ArtsEmerson
The multi-talented dramatic and musical interpreter of George Gershwin, Frederic Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven and Leonard Bernstein, as himself for a change.