陳必先鋼琴演奏會 1/27 喬丹廳

中華表演藝術基金會  Foundation For Chinese Performing Arts               3 Partridge Lane, Lincoln, MA 01773 ChinesePerformingArts.net Foundation@ChinesePerformingArts.net   The New York Times  " She takes a sparkling, crystalline view of the music" The Boston Globe  "Chen is a first-rate, penetrating musical intelligence." Saturday, 1/27/2018, 8 PM NEC's Jordan Hall Pi-Hsien Chen 陳必先, piano    Ticket: $15, $30, $50 (VIP) 100 free student tickets available at www.ChinesePerformingArts.net (1 per request for age 14 and up)   Children under 6 not admitted Student/Senior rush tickets $10 6:30 PM at Box office Program: MOZART: Fantasie c-Minor KV 475 MOZART: Sonata c-Minor KV 457  SCHOENBERG: Five Piano Pieces Op. 23 BOULEZ: Third Sonata (1962) - intermission -- LIANG 梁雷: My Windows 我的窗 SCHUBERT: Sonata E-flat Major, D 568 Pi-hsien Chen was born in Taipei in 1950. When she was nine, she left Taiwan and one year later entered the University of Music in Cologne, Germany. She grew up in the home of her teacher, Hans-Otto Schmidt-Neuhaus, who was also the teacher of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christoph Eschenbach, and Péter Eötvös. She later studied with Hans Leygraf and also with Wilhelm Kempff, Claudio Arrau, Geza Anda, and Tatjana Nikolajewa. In 1972,  she won the First Prize at the International ARD Competition in Munich. Her special interest in Schoenberg and Bach also enabled her to win the Arnold Schoenberg Competition in Rotterdam and the Bach Competition in Washington, D.C. She has performed in most of the major concert halls and with many of the world's major orchestras, particularly almost every orchestra within the German radio system. Among the orchestras with whom she has appeared are the Royal Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the BBC Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and Tonhalle Orchestra, as well as the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo. She has also been a partner in the Asko Ensemble in Amsterdam, Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, and Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris. She has appeared in the festivals in Lucerne, Schwetzingen, Hong Kong, and Osaka, as well as the Berliner Festspiele, the Wien Modern festival, the Festival d'Autumne in Paris, the Strasbourg Festival, the South Bank Festival in London, the Huddersfield Festival, the BBC Proms, the Ruhr Piano Festival, and the festival in Roque d'Antéron. She represented German music at EXPO 2000 in Hanover, appearing with Alfons Kontarsky. She has been a frequent guest at the Donaueschingen Festival, and was one of six piano soloists in the world premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas's limited approximations in 2010. Her dedication to new piano music evolved out of her collaboration with composers such as John Cage, Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Kurtág, John Patrick Thomas, and Péter Eötvös, to whom she was married. An IRCAM documentary film by Walter Schels shows Boulez assisting Pi-hsien Chen as she prepares for the world premiere of his Douze Notations. In "Black and White", a documentary film about Elliott Carter, Pi-hsien Chen is the pianist in his Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano and Two Chamber Orchestras. She was a professor specializing in contemporary piano music Reviews: "Chen creates a masterful "Art of the Fugue". (Richard Buell, The Boston Globe) "...Ms Chen's recording of Jean Barraqué's Sonata is remarkable. She takes a sparkling, crystalline view of the music in a way that brings it near the music of Barraqué's principal French contemporary, Pierre Boulez...." (Paul Griffiths, The New York Times) "...Pi-hsien Chen's opening to Beethoven's Bagatelles announced that the audience would be treated to musical universes that were clear and clean, contained and carefully considered and phrased.... In the carefully curated and bigger-scope-than-normal Scarlatti sonatas, Chen wielded a rich palette while expressing an enlightening variety of characters, lines, and moods within each sonata ...."  www.classical-scene.com, 2004 "Pi-hsien Chen's playing was strikingly colorful and exciting, and the duo with Nicholas Kitchen played Mozart's Sonata with real Mozartian elegance...."   www.classical-scene.com 2016 UPCOMING EVENTS -----------------     Saturday, 1/27/2018, 8 pm, Jordan Hall,  Pi-Hsien Chen  陳必先, pianist    Saturday, 3/31/2018, 8 pm, Jordan Hall,                                                    Angelo Xiang Yu 于翔 violin    Andrew Hsu             徐鴻,piano    The 27th Annual  All-American Chinese  Brush Painting and Calligraphy Competition   (April 15, 2018)  全美青少年國畫書法比賽    Roger Wong 黃汝琛, age 13, Liu Xiaoyong Studi, MA麻州劉曉勇畫室 Kaden Chen 陳萬盛, age 11, Ichen Art Academy, CA 加州宜真美術學院 Saturday, 5/12/2018, 8 pm, Jordan Hall,  Dang Thai-Son 鄧泰山, pianist   The 27th Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill  胡桃山音樂營 July 19-August 12, 2018 Application before April 5 Concerto 2018: Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54   We Need Your Support Support us make a   Donation www. 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BCNC包氏藝文中心獲波士頓基金會捐款2萬元

BCNC Pao Arts Center Receives Grant from The Boston Foundation

Boston, MA -- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC) announced today that it has received a $20,000.00 grant from the Boston Foundation to support its Pao Arts Center, which opened in May 2017 in partnership with Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC).

“With the support of the Boston Foundation, the Pao Arts Center will provide more support and opportunities to a diverse range of artists in underrepresented communities like Chinatown,” said Giles Li, BCNC Executive Director. “BCNC established the Pao Arts Center last year as a place for families, artists, and other stakeholders to connect and build community together. This generous award helps make that mission a reality.”

This grant will support the Pao Arts Center, Chinatown’s first community-based arts center and Boston’s newly dedicated Asian American and Asian immigrant cultural space. Since its opening in May 2017, the Pao Arts Center has hosted over 1,000 guests for classes, gallery exhibits, book signings, film screenings, performances, and more.

Funds for this grant come from the Boston Foundation’s Permanent Fund for Boston,Greater Boston’s only endowed fund focusing on the pressing needs of Greater Boston. The Permanent Fund has been made possible by more than a century of gifts from those who seek to support innovative solutions to the region’s most pressing problems since 1915.

Senator Elizabeth Warren to Host Town Hall on Sunday, January 28

Senator Elizabeth Warren to Host Town Hall

on Sunday, January 28

Boston, MA - On Sunday, January 28, Senator Elizabeth Warren will host her first town hall of the new year. Warren will take questions from the audience and discuss her work standing up for working families of Massachusetts against powerful corporate interests. Last year, Warren hosted 17 town halls across the Commonwealth. The event is free and open to the public. We ask the public to please RSVP at our website: http://elizabethwarren.com/maldentownhall2018.

The event is open to press. Media planning to attend can RSVP to Gabrielle@elizabethwarren.com.

WHAT: Senator Elizabeth Warren Hosts Town Hall in Malden, MA

WHEN: Sunday, January 28

 12:00 p.m. (doors open), 1:00 p.m. (event begins)

WHERE:  Malden High School

     77 Salem Street, Auditorium

     Malden, MA

BOSTON AWARDED $150,000 GRANT TO SUPPORT BOSFOODLOVE, HEALTHY MEALS FOR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS

BOSTON AWARDED $150,000 GRANT TO SUPPORT BOSFOODLOVE, HEALTHY MEALS FOR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS Grant to benefit 57,000 students across Boston Public Schools

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Thursday, January 25, 2018 - Mayor Martin J. Walsh today accepted a  $150,000 grant that will benefit 57,000 Boston Public School (BPS) students, and support BPS's program BOSFoodLove. BOSFoodLove, a partnership between BPS's Food and Nutrition Services and the Mayor's Office of Food Access, will work to ensure each and every child receives healthy and delicious meals to fuel their school performance and success. Boston received this 2018 Childhood Obesity Prevention Grant award from the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM), in partnership with the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America, during USCM's 86th Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C. "Mayors across the country are leading the way to make sure our students and families have access to fresh, healthy food," said Mayor Walsh. "This grant will continue to support Boston's work to improve access to fresh fruits and vegetables through school meals. Choices at our schools need to work for all families and all students, many of whom depend on school meals. I'm proud that with this grant, we will continue to create happy, successful students, while listening to the needs of our communities." BOSFoodLove will improve access to fresh fruits and vegetables among BPS students through increased participation in and consumption of school meals. Emphasis on student and parent engagement, to solicit input into the school food programs, will ensure that all BPS students have access to free, healthy food that meets their dietary needs and preferences and supports their ability to perform well in school. The goal of this program is to make all students feel as though school meals are a good option for them. In addition to students benefiting from enjoyable, healthy meals at school, families facing food insecurity will benefit from BOSFoodLove, as it will reduce their burden to provide healthy meals for their children. Nearly three quarters of BPS students live at or below the poverty line, and only 39 percent participate in school breakfast, while 65 percent participate in school lunch. For children who attend Boston Public Schools, all breakfasts and lunches are free, regardless of family income. "America's beverage companies believe in the power of partnerships and the positive impact they can have on communities. The American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America is proud to partner with the U.S. Conference of Mayors to support the great work of mayors like Mayor Walsh who are proactively tackling childhood obesity in creative ways," said Susan Neely, president of the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America Board of Directors and president and CEO of the American Beverage Association. "BOSFoodLove is an excellent example of an innovative program that inspires and encourages young people to maintain a balanced diet so they can reach their full potential. Working together, government and industry can bring about lasting change not just to Boston but to communities across the nation." This grant builds off of Mayor Walsh's ongoing work to create welcoming, engaging food options for students throughout Boston. Last summer, the Mayor's Office of Food Access, BPS and the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics piloted "Lunch on the Lawn," which served students breakfast and lunch at sites throughout the City during the summer months at no cost. The Mayor's Office of Food Accessalso piloted "Books and Bites" summer meals at Boston Public Libraries with Project Bread, and served over 3,000 meals at the Mattapan Public Library. During Mayor Walsh's inauguration address at the beginning of this year, he pledged to increase the scale of BPS's fresh food "Hub and Spoke" pilot program, which includes renovating school kitchen facilities as part of BuildBPS, Boston's $1 billion plan to upgrade schools across the district.

DUNKIN DONUTS OPERATOR PAYS $60,000 PENALTY FOR VIOLATING STATE’S EARNED SICK TIME LAW

DUNKIN DONUTS OPERATOR PAYS $60,000 PENALTY FOR VIOLATING STATE’S EARNED SICK TIME LAW

Company Operates More than 60 Dunkin Donut Stores in Massachusetts

BOSTON – A Stoneham company that operates more than 60 Dunkin Donut stores in Massachusetts has paid a $60,000 penalty for failure to comply with the state’s Earned Sick Time Law, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today.

In a settlement agreement with the AG’s Office, Jose S. Couto, Manager of Couto Management Group, LLC and President of Rockland Donuts, Inc., has agreed to pay the penalty for failing to provide notice to employees about their rights under the law, as required. 

“We’re counting on all businesses to inform their workers about their right to sick time,” said AG Healey. “That’s especially important where workers are handling food. We’re glad to have resolved this matter to ensure that 2,000 Massachusetts workers will be able to take the sick time they earn.”

The earned sick time law allows for workers to use up to 40 hours of earned sick time per year if they (or their child, spouse, parent, or spouse’s parent) are sick or injured or have a routine medical appointment.

The AG’s Office began an investigation after receiving a complaint from an employee at a Roslindale Dunkin Donuts operated by the employer. Couto Management Group has approximately 2,000 employees across all stores in Massachusetts.

The investigation revealed that the Couto failed to provide individual notice to employees about earned sick time. The law requires employers to provide a hard copy or electronic notice to employees of the law’s requirements or include an earned sick time policy or allowable substitute paid leave policy in any employee manual or handbook. 

AG Healey’s Fair Labor Division is responsible for enforcing state laws regulating the payment of wages, including prevailing wage, minimum wage, overtime laws and earned sick time laws.

Workers who believe that their rights have been violated in their workplace are encouraged to file a complaint at www.mass.gov/ago/fairlabor.For information about the state’s wage and hour laws, workers may call the Office’s Fair Labor Hotline at (617) 727-3465 or go to the Attorney General’s new Workplace Rights website www.mass.gov/ago/fairlabor for materials in multiple languages.

This matter was handled by Assistant Attorney General Lisa Price and Investigator Kevin Shanahan, both of AG Healey’s Fair Labor Division.

Ultrino, House Approve Funds For State Housing

Ultrino, House Approve Funds For State Housing

BOSTON – State Representative Steve Ultrino (D-Malden) joined his colleagues in the House of Representatives this week to approve a major funding bill for building and maintaining public housing programs. The bill, H.4134, includes a record $600 million for public housing modernization and preservation, funding that could help upgrade and maintain existing public housing developments in Malden.

“Investing in public housing is a statement of inclusiveness and support in our community,” said Representative Ultrino. “This bill ensures that public housing can be properly maintained so that seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income residents can live here with dignity and continue to be a part of our community.”

The housing bond bill invests a total of $1.7 billion over several years into a number of public housing programs, including a home modification loan program that assists elderly or disabled homeowners make renovations that allow them to stay in their homes. The bill direct funds to local housing authorities to support existing public housing units, reauthorizes a tax credit for cleaning up polluted properties, and extends a state affordable housing tax credit that will help fill a void created by recent changes to federal tax law.

The bill passed the House 150–1 and now moves to the Senate.