Calendar of Events

Give Art 2011 – downstairs at 32 Main Street – wonderful works by many artists and gifts of art for the holidays!

Crowdsourcing a Collection: The Concord Museum’s 125th Anniversary Exhibition -Cambridge Turnpike at Lexington Road – In the fall of 2011, the Concord Museum will mark the 125th anniversary of the establishment of the Concord Antiquarian Society in 1886. The special exhibition, will offer new and unexpected perspectives on an esteemed collection. Pulitzer-prize winning author, historian, and Concord resident Doris Kearns Goodwin is serving as the Honorary Curator for the exhibition. A cross-section of the individuals who make up the Museum’s diverse community, including nationally-known individuals with connections to Concord, have been invited to serve as Guest Curators and will select objects from our holdings that have special meaning for them. Each Guest Curator will explain the personal significance of his/her selection either in writing or video.  In addition, the exhibition will include the “favorite” objects of Concord residents from the past, including Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Museum’s objects speak to such contemporary topics as freedom, independent thinking, craftsmanship, and the environment, among others, and are already drawing a wide variety of responses

Wall Works – 51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln - In Wall Works, six artists were invited to create site-specific wall installations in response to the Museum’s collection of modern and contemporary American art. In preparation for the exhibition, artists Kysa Johnson, Natalie Lanese, Caleb Neelon, Alison Owen, Justin Richel, and Mary Temple trolled the Museum’s database of 3,500 objects and selected an artwork to serve as a source of inspiration for their proposed “wall work.” The artists identified artworks that resonated with their varied interests and aesthetics and have consequently assembled an eclectic assortment of objects from deCordova’s collection. Sited both in the gallery and the Museum’s Café, these new installations reflect each artist’s own practice while creatively engaging the Permanent Collection as an educational, historical, and inspirational entity. 

Dr. Malissa Wood presents "Smart at Heart" " -– 65 Main Street – 3:00pm - Local resident and Harvard-trained cardiologist Malissa Wood, MD, presents "Smart at Heart," which empowers women to create not just a life-sustaining heart, but the added benefit of an enjoyable and heart-sustaining life. . Free.

Lecture:  Collecting Transcendentalism: A Curator’s Perspective - 129 Main Street – 5:00pm – presented by Leslie Morris, curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University; Trustee of Ralph Waldo Emerson Association.

Wine Tasting and Silent Auction – 51 Walden – 7:00pm - To benefit the Concord Chorus. An evening of musical entertainment and wine tasting sponsored by West Concord Liquors. Admission: $30.

Jeff Clements presents "Corporations Are Not People" -– 65 Main Street – 3:00pm - Local attorney and co-founder of Free Speech for People discusses and signs his latest book. Free.

Beethoven, Brittan, Sibelius – 51 Walden – 8:00pm - The Concord Orchestra, conducted by Richard Pittman, presents its winter concert.  Richard Sebring, associate principal horn with the BSO, and Frank Kelley, tenor, will perform Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings.  Also on the program is Beethoven’s Fidelio Overture and the Symphony No. 1 in E minor by Sibelius.  Adults $25, senior citizens $20, students $10.

John Matteson presents "The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography" – 65 Main Street – 3:00pm - Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer John Matteson discusses and signs this fascinating book.  Free.

Amateurs - 51 Walden Street -  From the author of The Boys Next Door, Tom Griffin's Amateurs is both a poignant and at times an over the top comedic tale about the tangled desires and hopes of the guests at an opening night party of a New England community theater group. Dorothy and her eccentric husband Charlie host an opening night party that will make you laugh and cry, where the dreams, loves, failures and successes of this assortment of personalities are explored with bittersweet humor and the relationship between risk and need is touchingly depicted

Concord Band Winter Concert - 51 Walden Street – 8:00pm - The concert will feature the award-winning Triton Brass Quintet as guest instrumentalists. The quintet will perform Five Concord Diversions for Brass Quintet and Band by James Curnow, commissioned by the Concord Band and premiered in 1987, and Concertino for Brass Quintet and Band by John Cheetham.  Tickets are $15 each ($5 for students and seniors).

Little Women - 51 Walden Street - Louisa May Alcott's book, "Little Women", is the much loved story of the four March sisters, and their journey from childhood to maturity in 19th century New England. The story is loosely based on the author's own childhood experiences with her three sisters, and explores the sorrows and triumphs of the March girls, as they navigate their way through the various stages of their lives, both together and independently.  David Fielding Smith's script of "Little Women" is faithful to the book, and brings to life this timeless classic in a vibrant and exciting way.

Fortepiano Trios with Maggie Cole – Parish Hall, First Parish Church, 20 Lexington Road – 7:00pm –Trios of Stephen Storace, Haydn and Beethoven Op. 1 No 2 in G major.  Tickets:  $24/ $20 Senior/ $12 Student/ free for children.