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Permit No. 54826Newton Community Education 457 Walnut Street Newton, MA 02460

Temple Shalom175 Temple Street, Newton MA 02465

From Route 128 (I-95) heading northboundTake Exit 23–24–25 (Mass. Turnpike and Route 30). On the ramp you will have several choices; take Exit 24–Route 30, and turn right onto Route 30 East. (Continue directions from * just below.)

*Route 30 is Commonwealth Avenue. Go east for 1.8 miles to Temple Street; on the right is a sign for Brae Burn Country Club. Turn left onto Temple Street. Temple Shalom is on the left, opposite the Peirce School. The parking lot is just before the temple.

From Route 128 (I-95) heading southboundTake Exit 24–Route 30 immediately after the Mass. Turnpike exit. Turn right onto Route 30 East, and follow directions from * at left.

From Mass. Turnpike heading eastboundTake Exit 14 (Route 128, I-95). Head toward a sign that says I-95 North–NH–Maine. 100 yards later you’ll see a sign for Route 30. Follow the winding off-ramp to Route 30. Turn right onto Route 30 East, and follow directions from * at left.

From Mass Turnpike heading westboundTake Exit 16. Bear right toward Wellesley (you’ll be on Route 16). At intersection with Route 30 (Commonwealth Avenue), turn left. Take your 4th left from Commonwealth Avenue onto Temple Street (opposite the sign for Brae Burn Country Club). Temple Shalom is on the left, opposite the Peirce School. The parking lot is just before the temple.

If you’re familiar with NewtonTake Commonwealth Avenue 1.4 miles west of the Walnut Street intersection (Newton City Hall), or 0.5 miles west of the Chestnut Street intersection. Turn right onto Temple Street. Temple Shalom is on the left, opposite the Peirce School. The parking lot is just before the temple.

LIFETIME LEARNING SPRING 2019

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Highlights Spring 2019

Lyn Chang, violin, will perform Chinese folksongs, and speak about growing up in Newton as a first generation Chinese American, May 13.

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Mondays 10am–11am (pick one)

Music Performance Series

Chair Yoga

Roaring Twenties

Great Speeches that Changed the World

Mondays 11:30am–12:30pm (pick one)

Distinguished Speaker Series

iPhone/iPad Class

Travels Around the World

Text-Infused Self-Portraits

SESSION 1 SESSION 2

• To register, call NCE at 617-559-6999 or visit www.newtoncommunityed.org • Mail in registration: Complete form, include a check for $106 payable to Lifetime Learning, and mail to:

Lifetime Learning, Newton Community Education, 457 Walnut Street, Newton, MA 02460• Walk-in registration (cash or check only): Monday, April 22, starting at 9:30am

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Ample parking is available on the street as well as in the temple lot, where many handicapped spots are also available.

VENUE Temple Shalom, 175 Temple Street, West Newton, MA 02465

Join fellow senior citizens for mornings of inquiry, entertainment, and community.

Lifetime Learning is 41 years old and we’re still going strong! Our program of inspirational courses, engaging speakers, and classical music performances by local professional musicians returns this Spring at the beautiful Temple Shalom in West Newton. In addition to ample space for classes and a big, bright performance/lecture hall, we will offer coffee and tea to enjoy before and between events. We look forward to welcoming new students and seeing old friends.

A lifetime of Lifetime Learning

Lifetime Learning was founded in 1978 by a group of intellectually curious senior citizens. Beginning with meetings in private homes, it quickly outgrew those venues and went on to run at several local institutions. The first of those was Temple Shalom, to where it returns this Spring.

Thanks

Lifetime Learning would not exist without our speakers and teachers, many of whom have volun-teered their time. We also wish to thank Temple Shalom for providing rental space for our program.

About NCENewton Community Education is dedicated to your lifelong learning. We offer programs for everyone eager to explore—from toddlers to seniors—from Newton and beyond. We are a self-sustaining arm of the Newton Public Schools. We aim to inspire or nurture your passion with quality programs provided at a reasonable cost.

Lifetime Learning StaffKaren O’Neill NCE DirectorBrenda April Program CoordinatorClara Chan Music CoordinatorJessica Lipnack Speakers Coordinator Ed Hauben Program VolunteerJan Hauben Program VolunteerCynthia Adams Program Volunteer

SIX MONDAYS April 22 — June 3 (no program May 27) 10am — 12:30pm

Course ID T105-P19 $100 + $6 reg fee

Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate, will reflect on American minorities, social class and poetry on May 6.

Photo credit Eric Antoniou

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES

LIFETIME LEARNING COURSES

4/22: ONCE UPON A STARRY NIGHT — CK ENSEMBLEElzbieta Brandys-O’Neill (flute), Cherry Kim (cello), and Ai-Ying Chiu (piano), invite you to an opening of a musical time capsule from France, exploring the tonal languages and colors from the 13th to 20th centuries with music by Pérotin, Dufay, Boismortier, Pleyel, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Gaubert, and Poulenc.

4/29: POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE — CASAMATTA QUARTETMatthew Liebendorfer (violin), Noralee Walker (viola), Duke Roth (cello), and Clara Chan (piano) will present John Harbison’s tribute to Franz Schubert and the elusive puzzle he struggled with until his death, “November 19, 1828”, along with the beloved piano quartet of Robert Schumann.

5/6: UTOPIA — MUSIC FOR A PERFECT WORLDPamela Dellal (mezzo-soprano) and Christina Guibas (piano) will present a concert exploring our desires for a better place - where love, joy, knowledge are all fulfilled – and how we find or lose ourselves on the way. Featuring songs by Fauré, Barber, Duparc, and others.

5/13: JASMINE FLOWERLynn Chang (violin) will reprise his performance of Chinese folksongs and Elgar at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, in addition to selections from Bach’s Goldberg variations. He will also speak about his experience growing up in Newton as a first generation Chinese American.

5/20: HOP INTO HAYDN — THE HAYDN ENTHUSIASTSIsaac Krauss (violin), Jason Sundram (violin), Elaine Leisinger (viola) and Josh Packard (cello) present Opus 17 #1 in E major, written in 1771, from Haydn’s early experiments with the string quartet, together with Opus 74 #3 in G minor, nicknamed “The Rider”, written in 1793 and dedicated to Count Apponyi. Although these quartets are separated by 22 years, and are stylistically quite different, they are connected by key – The Rider, interestingly, has an E major slow movement.

6/3: SONGS OF LOVE AND LOSSRichard Giarusso (baritone) and Andrew Jonathan Welch (piano) present a concert of English, German, and Italian songs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Included on the program are Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer), Gerald Finzi’s Let us Garlands Bring, and selected songs of Paolo Tosti.

CLASSICAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE SERIES

4/22: THE WISDOM OF AGING COUPLESAging people develop “cognitive bias,” leaning towards positive experiences while avoiding negative ones, resulting in less conflict in relationships. Friendship, more peaceful and intimate, replaces romance as home base. Family Institute of Cambridge Co-founder/Director Barry Dym is author of the best-seller, Couples, and blogs at www.barydym.wordpress.com.4

4/29: FIFTY-FIVE, UNDEREMPLOYED, AND FAKING NORMALFaced with the experience of millions of older Americans, Harvard MBA, entrepreneur, and former C-suite executive Elizabeth White never expected to land here. Fifty-five looks at tools and strategies to manage resources and achieve more inner directed and satisfying lives for those who, despite good earlier career choices, now confront possible downward mobility in old age.

5/6: AMERICAN MINORITIES, SOCIAL CLASS, AND POETRYAmerica’s only three-term Poet Laureate and Favorite Poem Project founder, Robert Pinsky says, “I’ve thought about all three elements in my title, separately and together, every day of my life, always trying to say something new. What that something new will be, when I speak at Lifetime Learning, I can’t say – possibly what’s in the news – and I will recite some poetry.”

5/13: HUBERT HUMPHREY: THE CONSCIENCE OF THE COUNTRYBiographer Arnold Offer will speak about Hubert Humphrey. Voted “most successful legislator of the twentieth century” former Senator, Vice President and Presidential Candidate, Humphrey promoted civil rights, nuclear arms control, Peace Corps, Jobs Corps, foreign aid, Medicare, and Medicaid.

5/20: “NO PURELY FEMININE WOMAN”: MARGARET FULLER IN HER TIME AND OURSProfessor Megan Marshall of Emerson College, speaks about Margaret Fuller: A New American Life. This Pulitzer-Prize winning book is an account of America’s pioneering feminist and first woman war correspondant. Fuller died at age forty in a shipwreck returning from revolutionary Europe in 1850, but her legend and legacy continue to inspire.

6/3: KINDNESS AND THE ATHEIST CASE FOR KARMANew neuroscience research indicates that kindness, generosity, and positive psychology lead to neurological and genetic changes. Harvard Medical School teacher and clinical psychologist Dr. Christopher Willard explains how this works and how it leads to happier children, parents, and grandparents.

TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD WITH BARRY PELLBarry Pell has traveled in 167 countries over fifty years on all continents. For this 5 session course, we will travel around the world to explore countries and people with a wide range of history, traditions and cultures. Barry has selected favorite places from his recent travels – Nauru & Kiribati, Switzerland, Argentina & Ecuador, Cuba, and Bhutan – which he has not previously presented at Lifetime Learning. Together with his photography, he will discuss the unique aspects which make these places so fascinating and appealing. Barry Pell is a world traveler and photojournalist. He has also lived and traveled in China, eastern Europe, North Africa, and South America. He currently lectures on international cultures at schools, universities, and institutions in the Boston area.

iPHONE/iPAD CLASSMost people still only use a fraction of the features on their iPhones or iPads. In this class (suitable for those who own either or both of these devices) we will cover the basics: how to use the touchscreen interface, tips for using the keyboard, how to get and delete apps, and some more advanced features like how to customize your screen and determine the amount of storage you have left. We will also go over frequently used apps like Messaging, Email, and the Camera. With Howard Loewinger, IT Specialist.

TEXT-INFUSED SELF PORTRAITS: AN ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST SPEAKS TO USResearch shows, and art historians agree, Joe Stapleton (1921-1994) was the only abstract expressionist to infuse text into self-portraits. Out of 350 self-portraits Stapleton produced in his lifetime, more than 70 created between 1974 and 1989 were populated with a cascade of intense calligraphic thought. Stapleton employed both forward and reversed text, integrating words within and around the image, often interspersing letters among adjacent words, as if toying with the viewer. In this course we’ll explore the roots of Stapleton’s calligraphic work extending back to the beginning of 20th century Europe, the forces driving his expressive language, and the atmosphere in which he created these drawings. You’ll come away with an intimate view into this artist’s head. With Robert Solomon, Right holder: The Joseph Stapleton Drawings Collection, Art Historian: Mid-Twentieth Century American Art History.

LIFETIME LEARNING COURSES

THE ROARING TWENTIES: CONFLICT, CHANGE AND CONTINUITYThe “Jazz Age” or the period “Between Two Wars” was a decade of incredible change with the expansion of women’s rights, Prohibition, giant strides in technology and its affect on the economy, the impact of the automobile, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, increased immigration restrictions, intellectuals’ migration to Europe, radical changes in “manners and morals,” and the run up to the Great Depression. We will explore the bright and the dark sides of this period with an eye on the “lessons of history”. Our text is an exciting book by Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday. Choose your participation at a variety of different levels from sitting and listening, to sharing, to making mini-presentations. We will use videos from Ken Burns, Baseball (1919-1929), The History of Jazz, and Prohibition. We will welcome family stories from this period. Flappers are welcome. Bootleggers leave your gin and guns at home. Dan Kunitz is a graduate from the University of Chicago, who has taught in the Newton Public Schools, Rome, Cairo, and in Kyrgyzstan.

GREAT SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLDWe will look closely at great speeches of the 20th Century that literally changed the course of history. We will study the historical context of each speech, the speaker behind the words, and the rhetorical devices that made the speeches so memorable. Speeches will include the magnificent war time speeches of Winston Churchill, the first inauguration speech of Franklin Roosevelt and the onset of the New Deal, General MacArthur’s speech to the joint session of Congress after being fired by Truman, JFK’s inaugural speech of 1961, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech of 1963, and Ted Kennedy’s heartbreaking eulogy for his slain brother, Bobby Kennedy in 1968. Taped recordings of the highlights of each speech will be played at each session.With Larry Lowenthal, Ph.D., New York University

CHAIR YOGAYoga is for everyone! Chair Yoga is safe, gentle, and particularly suitable for beginners. Learn traditional yoga postures while supported in a chair. You’ll work your muscles and joints from head to toe, reaping the physical benefits of increased range of motion and strength, as well as the mental benefits of a calm mind and spirit. Barbara Perlo, Certified Yoga Instructor, will leave you with a renewed vitality, and enhanced strength, balance and levity. Barbara teaches with light-hearted wit and compassion.

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