Depot Square Gallery: Other Events

Upcoming Events

April 11, 2008 (Friday at 7:30pm)

Celebrating Poetry month with:

Marion Kaplun Shapiro
Elizabeth Kirshner
Regie O'Hare Gibson
Cammy Thomas
Rosamund Zimmerman

Marian Kaplun Shapiro practices as a psychologist and poet in Lexington, Massachusetts. She is the author of a professional book, Second Childhood (Norton, 1988), a poetry book, Players In The Dream, Dreamers In The Play (Plain View Press, 2007) and two chapbooks: Your Third Wish, (Finishing Line, 2007); and The End Of The World, (Pudding House, 2007)

Elizabeth Kirschner has published three volumes of poems all with Carnegie Mellon University Press. She has two books forthcoming--"My Life as a Doll" will be released on July 1st by Autumn House Press followed by "Surrender to Light" due out from Word Tech in August '09. She has collaborated with many composers here and abroad and has a CD, "The Dichterliebe in Four Seasons" put out by Albany Records in spring 2007. In it she has set her own poetry, not a translation, to Robert Schumann's "Dichterliebe." It features soprano Jean Danton and pianist Thomas Stumpf. Since 1990, she has taught at varying degrees at Boston College.

Regie O’Hare Gibson
“A talent rare charismatic and humane... when you perform you are supersonic and in the stratosphere...you sing and chant for all of us. Nobody gets left out” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Author, songwriter, educator and workshop facilitator Regie Gibson has read taught, lectured and performed at universities, theaters and various other venues in seven countries most recently Havana, Cuba. He has worked with artists as diverse as David Amram and Mos Def, Richie Havens and Kurt Vonnegut. Regie has performed his work with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra “X”–– a multi-ethnic multi-cultural ensemble of classically trained musicians from several countries. He and his work appear in the New Line Cinema film "love jones” a film based on events in his life. His work has also appeared in a number of anthologies and journals including The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Iowa Review and Poetry Magazine. He is a National Poetry Slam Individual Champion, has been a featured numerous times on NPR, on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and has been nominated for a Boston Emmy Award for his featured performance on WGBH-2’s Art Close-Up. His first collection of poems Storms Beneath the Skin has received the Golden Pen Award. He performs with Synesthesia–– a literarymusic ensemble that fuses literature with American funk, jazz and blues, European classical elements, Middle Eastern percussion and smatterings of electronica. He has received his MFA in poetry from New England College.

Cammy Thomas’ first book of poems, Cathedral of Wish (Four Way Books, 2005), received the 2006 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. The judge was Medbh McGuckian. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Agenda, Marlboro Review, Runes, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Sahara, the on-line journals Perihelion and Blaze, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College, and a PhD in English from Berkeley, where she specialized in Victorian poetry. She has published articles and continues to give talks on Victorian topics, especially Tennyson's poetry. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and teaches English at Concord Academy.

Rosamond Zimmermann
A graduate of the University of York, England, Rosamond Zimmermann has published her work in a number of magazines, Echoes, A Literary Quaterly , Ant Farm, The Pacific Coast Journal, Synaesthetic, Curlew Press UK, and in a special poetry edition of Sojourner on Women and Creative Writing as well as in the 2004 Poetry from Sojourner, A Feminist Anthology, University of Illinois Press . She lives and works in Lexington, MA.

April 25, 2008 (Friday at 7:30pm)

Synesthesia

Regie O’Hare Gibson: Word and Percussion
Robert Rivera: Cello
Eric N. Peterson: Middle Eastern Percussion
Todd Brunel: Bass Clarinet and Bulgarian Flute

Regie Gibson: n. 1. Word guy. “A talent rare charismatic and humane... when you perform you are supersonic and in the stratosphere...you sing and chant for all of us. Nobody gets left out” ~ Kurt Vonnegut 2. An author, songwriter, educator and workshop facilitator who has read taught, lectured and performed at universities, theaters and various other venues in seven countries. 3. Has worked with artists as diverse as David Amram and Mos Def, John Legend, Richie Havens and Kurt Vonnegut. Regie has performed his work with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra “X”–– a multi-ethnic multi-cultural ensemble of classically trained musicians from several countries. 4. He and his work appear in the New Line Cinema film "love jones” a film based on events in his life. He is a National Poetry Slam Individual Champion, has been a featured numerous times on NPR, on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and has been nominated for a Boston Emmy Award for his featured performance on WGBH-2’s Art Close-Up.

Synesthesia: n. 1. A sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color. 2. A seamless marriage of word, song, chant, cello, percussion and bass clarinet. 3. What happens when an Irish ballad meets Moroccan rhythms; when a Shakespearean sonnet hangs out with classical cello and when modern American poetry funks up with Egyptian Tabla or Latin cajon. 4. An artistic offering happening at Depot Square Gallery.

Featured Artist:

Regie O’Hare Gibson: Word and Percussion
Robert Rivera: Cello
Eric N. Peterson: Middle Eastern Percussion
Todd Brunel: Bass Clarinet and Bulgarian Flute

Come see what you’ve needed to hear.

May 9, 2008 (Friday at 7:30pm)

The Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble

June 13, 2008 (Friday at 7:30pm)

TBA

Past Event

March 14, 2008 (Friday at 7:30pm)

Berit Strong, Guitar and Mary Neumann, Flute

Guitar/Flute Duo in Two Gallery Concerts
March 14 at Depot Gallery in Lexington

Mary Neumann, flute, & Berit Strong, classical guitar

Music for Flute & Guitar
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco "Sonatina"
Michio Miyagi "Haru no Umi" (Sea in Spring)
Astor Piazzolla "Histoire Du Tango"
Spanish Solos by Brouwer, Malats & Sor.

LEXINGTON Friday, March 14, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Depot Square Art Gallery, 1837 Massachusetts Avenue
in Lexington's historic district.

ADMISSION $10 Donation

INFO (978) 263-3418 for reservations Learn more at www.beritstrong.com

Internationally acclaimed guitarist Berit Strong and flutist Mary Cunningham Neumann will present two concerts of music for guitar and flute. Their program will include Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's "Sonatina;" Michio Miyagi's "Haru no Umi" (Sea in Spring); Astor Piazzolla's "Histoire Du Tango," and Spanish solos by Brouwer, Malats and Sor. The two performances are

Friday, March 14 at 7:30 PM at the Depot Square Art Gallery,
1837 Massachusetts Avenue in the Lexington historic district;

At the conclusion of the each concert audience members are invited to a Meet-the-Artist reception and to view the Gallery's current display. Admission to either concert is by suggested donation of $10. To reserve tickets or for further information, please call 978/263-3418.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Flutist Mary Cunningham Neumann received music degrees from Case Western Reserve University, the Hochschule für Music ("Mozarteum") (Salzburg, Austria), and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She has studied with Maurice Sharp, Helmut Zangerle, Nicolaus Harnoncourt and Werner Tripp. Ms. Neumann is active as a conductor, vocalist and flute soloist. She is Artistic Director of the Halalisa Singers, the Adult Choir Director at the Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church. She is on the faculty of the Powers Music School and has a private teaching studio in her Lexington home. She has performed frequently with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and as a flute soloist throughout the Boston area.

Guitarist Berit Strong received degrees in music from Hartt School of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music; she has studied with Oscar Ghiglia and Ruggero Chiesa and at the Chigiana Music Academy (Siena, Italy). Ms. Strong is on the faculty of the Groton School, Indian Hill Music Center (Littleton) and at ArtSpace, Inc. (Maynard). She has served as Artistic Consultant to the Boston Classical Guitar Society, and continues her strong commitment to promoting the classical guitar that marked her six-year tenure as Artistic Director. She has performed nationally and internationally with the Indian Hill Symphony, the National Flute Association Conventions, the Guitar Foundation of America Festivals, the Rome Festival Orchestra, the Estergom Guitar Festival and the Belgrade Cultural Center concerts.

October 19, 2007(Friday at 7:30pm)

Bruno Råberg and friends

November 9, 2007 (Friday at 7:30pm)

Batterie
Rich Greenblatt - Vibes
Steve Langone - Drums

February 8, 2008 (Friday at 7:30pm)

Poetry reading: Julia Lisella and friends

September 14, 2007 (Friday at 7:30pm)

Mill City Trio
Greg Passler - Guitar
Jamie Dunphy -Guitar
Tony D'Anna - Drums

Since its formation in 2005, the Mill City Trio has been performing regularly in clubs, galleries and concert venues across New England. The group was formed by three Boston-area veterans (guitarists Jamie Dunphy and Greg Passler, and drummer Tony D'Anna) as an outlet for their original compositions.

"With the release of Solstice, the Mill City Trio prove themselves to be one of the finest jazz groups on the Boston circuit today. Outstanding!"

--Douglas Sloan, Metronome Magazine

June 8, 2007 (Friday at 7:30pm)

THE NEW WORLD COMPOSERS OCTET
Featuring:
Daniel Ian Smith & Daryl Lowery - woodwinds
Ken Cervenka & Bill Fanning - trumpets and flugelhorns
Greg Wardson - piano
Keala Kaumeheiwa - contrabass
Steve Langone - drums and cymbals
Ricardo Monzon - percussion

May 11, 2007 (Friday at 7:30pm)

Peter Donnelly

Peter Donnelly's music does not easily fit into any particular genre: a pinch of folk, a dash of pop, an occasional sprinkling of rock, and a whole lot of heart. Perhaps the one consistent thing about Peter's music is that he sings about life, life as others see it, life as he sees it, and life as he would like to see it.

For further details please visit Peter Donnelly's website.

April 20, 2007 (Friday at 7:30pm)

Lecture and slide presentation
"Beauty and Dignity in the slums of India",
by Marika Barnett, former member of Depot Square Gallery, photographer

March 9, 2007 (Friday at 7:30pm)

The Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble

February 23, 2007
Rich Greenblatt Group

February 16, 2007
Bjorn Wennas and Carmen Marsico Septet

February 2, 2007
Art-Poem-Music: Body and Soul

Sirarpi Heghinian Walzer, visual artist
Elizabeth Kirschner, poet
Pamela J. Marshall, composer

February 9, 2007
Poetry reading:
Susan Edwards Richmond
Joan Houlihan

November 10, 2006
Marc Rossi Group - Contemporary jazz with a world view

Marc Rossi, piano and keyboards; Lance Van Lenten, saxophones and flute; Bill Urmson, bass; Mauricio Zottarelli, drums and percussion

October 20, 2006

Two local, award-winning writers will read from their work at Lexington’s Depot Square Gallery on Friday, October 20, 2006 at 7:30pm. Somerville resident Ethan Gilsdorf and William Orem of Waltham will read poetry and fiction in a lively performance that is free and open to the public .

September 8, 2006
Bruno Raberg Nonet

Fernando Brandao flutes
Allan Chase alto/soprano sax
Rick DiMuzio soprano/tenor sax
Phil Grenadier trp
Jeff Galindo trbn
Pete Cirelli bass trbn
Rick Peckham guitar
Bruno Raberg bass
Steve Langone drums

June 16, 2006

SANFORD PRAGER Trio and Lexington High School Jazz Ensemble

March 10, 2006 (Friday at 7:30pm)

Berit Strong - Spanish music for guitar, Manuel DeFalla

January 13, 2006 (Friday at 7:30pm)
The Lexington Sinfonietta

Danielle Boudrot, flute; Audrey Markowitz, oboe; Bill Kirkley, clarinet; Terry Myers, bassoon; Nancy-Lee Mauger, french horn

October 23, 2005 (Sunday 4-6pm)
Nicole Borger --Brazilian songs

October 14, 2005(Friday at 7:30pm)
Vocalist Melissa Kassel with Marc Rossi, Piano

September 23, 2005 (Friday at 7:30pm)

Bruno Råberg and Ascensio featuring Phil Grenadier, trumpet; Allan Chase, soprano/alto saxophones; Marcello Pellitteri, drums

October 7, 2005 (Friday 7:30pm)

David and Roselyn, New Orleans Jazz and Blues www.davidandroselyn.com
Louisiana Evacuee Restoration Tour

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October 9, 2005 (Sunday 4-6pm)
Ralph Rosen Quartet

July 29, 206(Friday at 7:30pm)
Eric Ostling Quintet

May 20, 2005 (Friday at 7:30pm)

Manyok Maluil and friends--guitar and drums

May 13, 2005 (Friday at 7:30pm)

Miller-Clark-Miller Trio
Cercie Miller-saxophone
David Clark-bass
Jane Miller-guitars

March 11, 2005 (Friday at 7:30pm)
Just in Time Composers - Pamela Marshall and Hayg Boyadgian Music for Woodwind Quintet

Performers:
Susan Caplan, flute
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, oboe
Monica Fay Duncan, clarinet
Ed Fritton, bassoon
Pamela Marshall, horn

February 25, 2005 (Friday at 7:30pm)
Donny McCaslin Group featuring Ben Monder

Donny McCaslin - saxophones
Ben Monder - guitar
Bruno Råberg - acoustic bass
Richie Barshay - drums

February 11, 2005 (Friday at 7:30pm)
Jeffry Hamilton Steele
Classical Guitarist/Composer

For more information please contact Sirarpi Heghinian Walzer at
(781) 863-1597 or e-mail to events@depotsquaregallery.com