Calendar http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/cal/2013-06 en First Mondays, Archive http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1668 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Mon, 06/03/2013 - <span class="date-display-start">6:00pm</span><span class="date-display-separator"> - </span><span class="date-display-end">7:00pm</span></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-access"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> This event is for members only. </div> </div> </div> <p>Members will receive an introduction to the services and collections of the Boston Athen&aelig;um by attending these one-hour sessions on the first Monday of each month. First Mondays are for members only and attendance is limited. Participants meet on the second floor at the reference desk.</p> <p><strong>To Reserve</strong>: No fee. Please call Catherine McGrath at (617) 720-7661 to register at least a week before the scheduled event</p> Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:05:20 +0000 allen 1668 at http://www.bostonathenaeum.org Book Talk, Louis Begley, Schmidt Steps Back http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1660 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Tue, 06/04/2013 - <span class="date-display-start">6:00pm</span><span class="date-display-separator"> - </span><span class="date-display-end">7:00pm</span></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-access"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> This event is open to the public. </div> </div> </div> <p><span style="color: #800000;"><em><strong>Schmidt Steps Back</strong></em></span><img style="float: right; border: 10px white;" src="/sites/default/files/web_schmidt_steps_back.jpg" border="0" alt="Image courtesy of Random House" title="Image courtesy of Random House" width="230" height="355" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1660" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:22:26 +0000 allen 1660 at http://www.bostonathenaeum.org Reprise, Book Talk, Hina Hirayama, http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1636 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Wed, 06/05/2013 - <span class="date-display-start">12:00pm</span><span class="date-display-separator"> - </span><span class="date-display-end">1:00pm</span></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-access"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> This event is for members only. </div> </div> </div> <p><span style="color: #800000;"><em><strong>- Reprise -</strong></em></span><img style="float: right; border: 10px white;" src="/sites/default/files/web_hina_book_cover_1.jpg" border="0" alt="Book cover, Hirayama, &ldquo;With &Eacute;clat&rdquo;: The Boston Athen&aelig;um and the Origin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston " title="Book cover, Hirayama, &ldquo;With &Eacute;clat&rdquo;: The Boston Athen&aelig;um and the Origin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston " width="230" height="313" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1636" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:34:18 +0000 allen 1636 at http://www.bostonathenaeum.org Spring Concert Series, Aaron Jackson, piano. John Cage: Etudes Australes, Book IV. Prelude (after EA I-III) + EA IV + Mapping the Sky IV http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1647 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Sat, 06/08/2013 - <span class="date-display-start">12:00pm</span><span class="date-display-separator"> - </span><span class="date-display-end">1:00pm</span></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-access"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> This event is open to the public. </div> </div> </div> <p><strong>Concert, Aaron Jackson, piano</strong>. <img style="float: right; border: 10px white;" src="/sites/default/files/web_hearn_dragonfly_4c_0.jpg" border="0" alt="Unidentified Japanese artist (possibly Genjiro Yeto or Keishu Takeuchi). &ldquo;Ao-tombo&rdquo; (a Japanese dragonfly), 1900. Watercolor drawings. Original illustration for Lafcadio Hern, A Japanese Miscellany (1901). Gift of Mr. &amp; Mrs. Arthur H. Brooks, 1996." title="Unidentified Japanese artist (possibly Genjiro Yeto or Keishu Takeuchi). &ldquo;Ao-tombo&rdquo; (a Japanese dragonfly), 1900. Watercolor drawings.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1647" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:21:00 +0000 allen 1647 at http://www.bostonathenaeum.org Lecture and Concert, Paula Matthews, Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian, Aaron Jackson, piano. “Too Much Beethoven”: Domestic Music-Making in the 19th Century http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1662 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Wed, 06/12/2013 - <span class="date-display-start">6:00pm</span><span class="date-display-separator"> - </span><span class="date-display-end">7:00pm</span></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-access"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> This event is for members only. </div> </div> </div> <p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><img style="float: right; border: 10px white;" src="/sites/default/files/new_hallet_cumston.jpg" border="0" alt="Charles H. Crosby &amp; Co., Hallet &amp; Cumston&rsquo;s Piano Forte Manufactory, ca. 1867. Chromolithograph. Athen&aelig;um purchase, 1997." title="Charles H. Crosby &amp; Co., Hallet &amp; Cumston&rsquo;s Piano Forte Manufactory, ca. 1867. Chromolithograph. Athen&aelig;um purchase, 1997." width="230" height="181" />&ldquo;Too Much Beethoven&rdquo;: Domestic Music-Making in the 19th Century</strong></span></p> <p><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1662" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:44:17 +0000 allen 1662 at http://www.bostonathenaeum.org Noon Book Talk, Roxana Robinson, Sparta: A Novel http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1683 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Thu, 06/13/2013 - <span class="date-display-start">12:00pm</span><span class="date-display-separator"> - </span><span class="date-display-end">1:00pm</span></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-access"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> This event is open to the public. </div> </div> </div> <p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: medium;"><em><strong>Sparta:&nbsp; A Novel</strong></em></span></p> <p><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1683" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:04:23 +0000 allen 1683 at http://www.bostonathenaeum.org Concert, Piano Trio Program: Dvorak: "Dumky" Trio/Jackson Piano Trio http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1709 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Sat, 06/15/2013 - <span class="date-display-start">12:00pm</span><span class="date-display-separator"> - </span><span class="date-display-end">1:00pm</span></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-access"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> This event is open to the public. </div> </div> </div> <p>Aaron Jackson, piano</p> <p>Adrienne Taylor, cello</p> <p>Chase Spruell, violin</p> Sat, 04 May 2013 17:30:58 +0000 allen 1709 at http://www.bostonathenaeum.org SOLD OUT. Book Talk in Collaboration with Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, Gil Schafer, The Great American House: Tradition for the Way We Live Now http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1663 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Tue, 06/18/2013 - <span class="date-display-start">6:00pm</span><span class="date-display-separator"> - </span><span class="date-display-end">7:00pm</span></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-access"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> This event is for members only. </div> </div> </div> <p><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: large;"><strong>SOLD OUT</strong></span></p> <p><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1663" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:01:50 +0000 allen 1663 at http://www.bostonathenaeum.org Spring Concert Series, Aaron Jackson, piano. John Cage: Etudes Australes, Books I-IV complete (extended length concert) http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1648 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Sat, 06/22/2013 - <span class="date-display-start">12:00pm</span><span class="date-display-separator"> - </span><span class="date-display-end">1:00pm</span></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-access"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> This event is open to the public. </div> </div> </div> <p><strong>Concert, Aaron Jackson, piano</strong>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1648" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:35:07 +0000 allen 1648 at http://www.bostonathenaeum.org Noon Book Talk, Joshua C. Kendall, America’s Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy that Built a Nation http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1664 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Tue, 06/25/2013 - <span class="date-display-start">12:00pm</span><span class="date-display-separator"> - </span><span class="date-display-end">1:00pm</span></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-access"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> This event is open to the public. </div> </div> </div> <p><span style="color: #800000;"><em><strong>America&rsquo;s Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy that Built a Nation</strong></em></span><img style="float: right; border: 10px white;" src="/sites/default/files/web_events_josh_kendall_book_talk.jpg" border="0" alt="Image courtesy of Grand Central Publishing" title="Image courtesy of Grand Central Publishing" width="220" height="330" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1664" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:08:32 +0000 allen 1664 at http://www.bostonathenaeum.org CANCELLED. Book Talk, Ibis Sánchez-Serrano, The World’s Health Care Crisis: From the Laboratory Bench to the Patient’s Bedside http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1665 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Thu, 06/27/2013 - <span class="date-display-start">12:00pm</span><span class="date-display-separator"> - </span><span class="date-display-end">1:00pm</span></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-access"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> This event is open to the public. </div> </div> </div> <p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: large;">CANCELLED</span></strong><em><strong><br /></strong></em></span></p> <p><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/1665" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:50:28 +0000 allen 1665 at http://www.bostonathenaeum.org