Around Hear

Around Hear A free chamber music series and education program in Somerville, MA.

Meet new friends, listen to music, enjoy some tasty goodies, and (if you want) quietly make art, write, and move. Around Hear is a partnership between the Somerville Housing Authority, the Mystic Learning Center, the Mystic Tenants Association, and an evolving group of classical musicians to create a regular time and space for people from a wide spectrum of life experiences to gather and listen with openness, depth, and creativity—to music, to themselves, and to each other.

AFTERSCHOOL OF HONK!Looking for something fun, free, and musical to do this spring? Come learn to play the street band w...
04/28/2025

AFTERSCHOOL OF HONK!

Looking for something fun, free, and musical to do this spring? Come learn to play the street band way, with the School of Honk, Somerville's beloved brass band and music school!

★ Free!
★ Ages 9 and up welcome, including adults!
★ No musical experience needed!

We have trumpets, trombones, and percussion to loan you and simple songs you can play on your very first day! Each week we'll spend a little time practicing and then head out for a short parade and performance around the Mystic.

TUESDAYS, 4:15-5:15pm
April 29, May 6, May 13, May 20

Outside the front entrance of the:
Mystic Activity Center
530 Mystic Ave
Somerville, MA 02145

More info at www.aroundhear.org

Come join us for a concert of music so uplifting, you might find yourself flying around the room. Between musical flight...
04/16/2025

Come join us for a concert of music so uplifting, you might find yourself flying around the room. Between musical flights of joy by Telemann and Beethoven, we will be sharing a set of songs from our evolving "Superdoves!" project: a combination adventure novel+song cycle. And exciting news: besides having two incredible human guest musicians joining us for this program, Flappy the Pigeon will be on hand (literally) to teach us all about her magnificent but often misunderstood species.

PROGRAM
Prelude by the Around Hear All-Ages Violin & Piano Classes

Georg Philipp Telemann – Fantasia No. 7 in E-flat Major for Solo Violin

Selections from "Superdoves!" a song cycle for voice & piano, with lyrics by Marji Gere & music by Dan Sedgwick, accompanied by cantastoria and Flappy the pigeon

Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, "Archduke"

PERFORMERS
Will Green, tenor
Marji Gere, violin, cantastoria & puppetry
Adrienne Taylor, cello
Dan Sedgwick, piano

Performances will also be shared with Somerville Housing Authority residents at Brady Towers and Bryant Manor.

More event info here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/18gPnK9EgS/

We've got a TON of news to share, but we wanted to let you know to save the date for our first public concert of the fal...
09/11/2024

We've got a TON of news to share, but we wanted to let you know to save the date for our first public concert of the fall:

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2-3:30pm

Mystic Activity Center
530 Mystic Ave. Somerville, MA 02145

PROGRAM

Prelude by the Around Hear All-Ages Violin & Piano Classes

Louis "Moondog" Hardin - a selection of rounds

Béla Bartók – Rhapsody No.2, for violin & piano

Jon Deak – "Eeyore Has a Birthday," for viola, double bass, & piano

Abdullah Ibrahim - a selection of tunes

Marji Gere, violin; Zoe Kemmerling, viola & Eeyore; Eric Rory Farnan, double bass & Pooh; Dan Sedgwick, piano & Piglet

The performers will also take turns playing percussion.

★ Free
★ Open to the public
★ Listeners of all ages are welcome
★ Refreshments served
★ Write, draw, move while you listen
★ Come for music, stay for PIZZA!

Our 2024-2025 concert season is generously supported by the Free for All Endowment Fund of The Boston Foundation.

The place to go for all breaking Around Hear news is our website: www.aroundhear.org. Sign up for our newsletter there too!

Around Hear is putting together an eclectic and fun program to bring in the summer! Come join us for new music for violi...
05/28/2024

Around Hear is putting together an eclectic and fun program to bring in the summer! Come join us for new music for violin & electronics, depicting the personal lives of planets beyond our galaxy; a hilarious tabletop puppet show with a Scrooge-like character and a flying cow; and music for piano and strings by Johannes Brahms to inspire dreaming, drawing, writing, and dancing.

June 1, 2-3:30pm
Mystic Activity Center, 530 Mystic Ave. Somerville, MA 02145

★ Free
★ Open to the public
★ Listeners of all ages are welcome
★ Refreshments served
★ Write, draw, move while you listen

PROGRAM
Prelude performances by our all-ages violin/viola class and creative keyboard ensemble

Sonata No. 1 "X/O" for violin & electronic sounds by Kelley Polar

"Lyzer the Miser," a tabletop puppet show based on a story by Isaac Bashevis singer

Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, by Johannes Brahms

Marji Gere, violin; Gillian Gallagher, viola; Adrienne Taylor, cello; Dan Sedgwick, piano; Trudi Cohen & John Bell, puppetry

This project is supported in part by the Somerville Arts Council, an agency of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Selections from this concert will also be shared with the youth from the Healey School and at Brady Towers and Properzi Manor, Somerville Housing Authority residence for seniors and people with disabilities.

Image taken from the Exoplanet Travel Bureau at www.nasa.gov

Event info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1175371776716746/

Around Hear is putting together an eclectic and fun program to bring in the summer! Come join us for new music for violi...
05/20/2024

Around Hear is putting together an eclectic and fun program to bring in the summer! Come join us for new music for violin & electronics, depicting the personal lives and dating profiles of planets beyond our galaxy; a hilarious tabletop puppet show with a Scrooge-like character and a flying cow; and music for piano and strings by Johannes Brahms to inspire dreaming, drawing, writing, and dancing.

June 1, 2-3:30pm
Mystic Activity Center, 530 Mystic Ave. Somerville, MA 02145

★ Free
★ Open to the public
★ Listeners of all ages are welcome
★ Refreshments served
★ Write, draw, move while you listen

PROGRAM
Prelude performances by our all-ages violin/viola class and creative keyboard ensemble

Sonata No. 1 "X/O" for violin & electronic sounds by Kelley Polar

"Lyzer the Miser," a tabletop puppet show based on a story by Isaac Bashevis singer

Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, by Johannes Brahms

Marji Gere, violin; Gillian Gallagher, viola; Adrienne Taylor, cello; Dan Sedgwick, piano; Trudi Cohen & John Bell, puppetry

This project is supported in part by the Somerville Arts Council, an agency of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Selections from this concert will also be shared with the youth from the Healey School and at Brady Towers and Properzi Manor, Somerville Housing Authority residence for seniors and people with disabilities.

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Somerville, MA
02145

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(857) 928-7134

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