“Have you ever been to a show where you feel an invisible wall between you and the performer? Catie Curtis pulls the walls down.” Mary Chapin Carpenter “Catie makes audiences feel like they’re part of the show. She doesn’t perform at you, she performs for you. Our audiences just adore her.” Matt Smith, Manager, Club […]
Program to feature performances from Newton based stars including internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Catie Curtis, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller and 13-year-old violinist Keila Wakao 2019-20 Schedule Includes Six Other Performances (Newton, MA August 19) The 25th season of Newton’s New Philharmonia Orchestra, Francisco Noya, Music Director, will begin with a special gala concert and reception Saturday, September […]
By Jonathan Blumhofer New Philharmonia Orchestra and music director Francisco Noya presented a concert Saturday night at Newton’s First Baptist Church, which consisted of two favorites by Johannes Brahms played in memory of a departed friend. That person was Susan Kaplan, a longtime Newton resident and arts advocate who passed away in November. The evening’s program, with […]
by Lee Eiseman A pair of all-in performances from the major orchestra of a nearby metropolis rewarded our afternoon drive last Sunday. Newton’s 24-year-old New Philharmonia, yet to learn either fear or hubris, tore into Brahms’s Fourth Symphony and First Concerto at the intensely polychromatic First Baptist Church of Newton with no concessions to their […]
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Opus 98 Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg on May 7, 1833, and died in Vienna on April 3, 1897. He first mentioned the Fourth Symphony in a letter to his publisher on August 19, 1884; about a year later, in October 1885, he gave a two-piano reading of […]
Michael Lewin is internationally applauded as one of America’s most gifted concert pianists, performing to acclaim in over 30 countries. His many recordings, enormous repertoire and charismatic stage presence have established him as an artist whose warmth, imagination and dazzling virtuosity make him an audience favorite. Commanding a repertoire of 40 piano concertos, his orchestral […]
Our upcoming piano soloist, Michael Lewin, answers this simple but tremendous question on his blog: What is your favorite piano concert? Not only do we love his reply, but it makes us even more excited to play it with him this March. The great Artur Rubinstein, when asked what his favorite piece was, always answered […]
Newton’s New Philharmonia Orchestra Continues 2018-2019 Season with An Evening of Brahms First Baptist Church, Newton │March 9-10, 2019 Newton, MA January 26, 2019 – Newton’s New Philharmonia Orchestra, Francisco Noya, Music Director, will continue its 2018-2019 Season with An Evening of Brahms, with Grammy Award-winning piano soloist, Michael Lewin. The second performance in the […]
The First Family Concert of the 2018-2019 Season First Baptist Church, Newton │December 16, 2018 3:00pm Newton, MA December 03, 2018 – Embrace a vision of Sugar Plum Fairies and join Newton’s New Philharmonia Orchestra for its annual holiday program of fun and family-friendly music. On Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 3 p.m., the New […]
Last week, the Metro West Daily News featured a piece on Lev Mamuya’s upcoming performance with the New Phil. Lev had some insightful comments on his personal philosophy and preparation for his upcoming Shostakovitch Cello Concerto No. 1 with us. “Playing Shostakovitch is a reminder, from the details, that music can never be divorced from […]