Why not join us at 11 am every other Sunday for some old-fashioned Torah study? We’ll look at the weekly portion [parshah] in a nutshell, learn about its main characters and themes, and practice the art of questioning the text Jewishly.

Look for an email invitation with registration instructions from Rabbi Kirshbaum.

Request a Zoom invitation here

BHC welcomes you to share in and experience our multi-media Holocaust Memorial Service

Transform pain and darkness into our common resilience, vibrancy and light

Join us in the Sanctuary and by Zoom for a gathering that will include live music, traditional songs of the ghettos and shtetls, poems, prayers, text and heartfelt wishes for connection, community and univerasl well-being.

There is no charge for this annual event.

Light refreshments served after service.

Request the Zoom link here.

Why not join us at 11 am every other Sunday for some old-fashioned Torah study? We’ll look at the weekly portion [parshah] in a nutshell, learn about its main characters and themes, and practice the art of questioning the text Jewishly.

Look for an email invitation with registration instructions from Rabbi Kirshbaum.

Request a Zoom invitation here

Why not join us at 11 am every other Sunday for some old-fashioned Torah study? We’ll look at the weekly portion [parshah] in a nutshell, learn about its main characters and themes, and practice the art of questioning the text Jewishly.

Look for an email invitation with registration instructions from Rabbi Kirshbaum.

Request a Zoom invitation here

Why not join us at 11 am every other Sunday for some old-fashioned Torah study? We’ll look at the weekly portion [parshah] in a nutshell, learn about its main characters and themes, and practice the art of questioning the text Jewishly.

Look for an email invitation with registration instructions from Rabbi Kirshbaum.

Request a Zoom invitation here

Registered yoga teacher Susan Bonnici offers another gentle yoga course onsite at BHC. Classes will meet weekly on Tuesdays, at 4:00 pm, from July 8 through August 26.

Susan will be guiding students to gradually build flexibility and skills that they can take from the mat to life.

Suggested donation to participate in the series is $60.

Register here.

Questions? Contact Susan.

Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow, moderated by Nancy Fages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE A.V. CLUB • Includes new interviews!

From the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a collection of intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy from the past thirty years—including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Sarah Silverman, Harold Ramis, Seth Rogen, Chris Rock, and Lena Dunham.

Meetings are open to anyone, and everyone interested in participating in a reading group. Contact the book club for details, to volunteer, or get Zoom login information.

Mr. Rose will be playing the Johann Sebastian Bach : Goldberg Variations, BWV988

Bernard Rose

Welcome back noted pianist Bernard Rose, who has performed every year since the start of Sounds in the Sanctuary. 

Bernard has performed as soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician across the country.  He has toured the United States with the Young Concert Artists, served as musical director of the New York Community Opera Company, and worked on musical productions for educational television.  

His affiliation with chamber ensembles includes the Claring Players, West End Chamber Ensemble, Laurentian Quartet, Audubon Quartet, the Rotterdam-based Daniel Quartet and Cremona Arts Trio.  He has collaborated with numerous artists, including Walter Trampler, Noboko Imai, and Eugene Fodor. 

At Sounds in the Sanctuary, Bernard has performed with violinist Miki-Sophia Cloud, violinist Anna Lim, cellist Edward Arron and cellist Jia Kim.  Bernard is a long-standing member artist of the North Country Chamber Players.

Registered yoga teacher Susan Bonnici offers another gentle yoga course onsite at BHC. Classes will meet weekly on Tuesdays, at 4:00 pm, from July 8 through August 26.

Susan will be guiding students to gradually build flexibility and skills that they can take from the mat to life.

Suggested donation to participate in the series is $60.

Register here.

Questions? Contact Susan.

Registered yoga teacher Susan Bonnici offers another gentle yoga course onsite at BHC. Classes will meet weekly on Tuesdays, at 4:00 pm, from July 8 through August 26.

Susan will be guiding students to gradually build flexibility and skills that they can take from the mat to life.

Suggested donation to participate in the series is $60.

Register here.

Questions? Contact Susan.

Even This I Get to Experience by Norman Lear, moderated by Melissa Potter

Norman Lear’s work is legendary. The renowned creator of such iconic television programs as All in the Family; Maude; Good Times; The Jeffersons; and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Lear remade our television culture from the ground up. At their peak, his programs were viewed by 120 million people a week, with stories that dealt with the most serious issues of the day—racism, poverty, abortion —yet still left audiences howling with laughter. In EVEN THIS I GET TO EXPERIENCE, Lear opens up with all the candor, humor, and wisdom to be expected from one of America’s greatest living storytellers.

Meetings are open to anyone, and everyone interested in participating in a reading group. Contact the book club for details, to volunteer, or get Zoom login information.

The Odesa Boys, Julian Milkis and Maxim Lubarsky

Clarinetist Julian Miklis and pianist Maxim Lubarsky return after their well-received concert in the 2023 series. 

Julian, Benny Goodman’s only student, is an internationally acclaimed solo artist in both the classical and jazz genres.  He has performed with The Toronto Symphony, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, and L’Orchestre Symphonique de Lyon, and collaborated with Valery Afanassiev, Misha Maisky, and the Borodin String Quartet, among others.  

Maxim, a classically trained pianist turned jazz pianist, has an active performing and recording career in Boston, New York, and abroad.  He is a regular at the Spoleto Festival, tours and records with Gabrielle Goodman, and is on the faculty of the Berklee College of Music.

Concert Program

• George Frideric Handel : Lascia ch’io pianga

• Alec Templeton: Pocket-Size Sonata No. 2 

• Astor Piazzolla: Soledad

• Astor Piazzolla: Street Tango

• Sergei Rachmaninov : Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (HN 1237)

• Ilya Dimov: Blues

• Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
  Ennio Marricone: Cinema Paradiso

Registered yoga teacher Susan Bonnici offers another gentle yoga course onsite at BHC. Classes will meet weekly on Tuesdays, at 4:00 pm, from July 8 through August 26.

Susan will be guiding students to gradually build flexibility and skills that they can take from the mat to life.

Suggested donation to participate in the series is $60.

Register here.

Questions? Contact Susan.

Registered yoga teacher Susan Bonnici offers another gentle yoga course onsite at BHC. Classes will meet weekly on Tuesdays, at 4:00 pm, from July 8 through August 26.

Susan will be guiding students to gradually build flexibility and skills that they can take from the mat to life.

Suggested donation to participate in the series is $60.

Register here.

Questions? Contact Susan.

Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble by Judy Gold, moderated by Sharon Heyman

In Yes I Can Say That, comedy veteran Judy Gold argues that "no one has the right to tell comics what they can or cannot joke about…. Laughter is a unifier. It's the best medicine. It's also the most palatable way to bring up seditious, subversive topics.” For Gold, nothing is more insidious than enforcing silence and repressing jokes—the job of a comedian is to expose society's demons, and confront them head-on, no prisoners allowed. In ten impassioned polemics, sheframes comedy as a tool of empowerment, a way to reclaim hateful rhetoric and battle the democracy-crushing plight of censorship.

Meetings are open to anyone, and everyone interested in participating in a reading group.  Contact the book club for details, to volunteer, or get Zoom login information.

The Trio will perform:

• Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaque, No. 1 in G Minor

• Udi Perlman: Nostos (2022)  (new piece by an Israeli composer which just had its world premiere)

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio in B:flat Major, Op. 97 ("Archduke")
  
  
  

Lysander Piano Trio

The Lysander Piano Trio as been praised by The Strad for its “incredible ensemble, passionate playing, articulate and imaginative ideas and wide palette of colors” and by The Washington Post for “an uncommon degree of heart-on-the-sleeve emotional frankness” and “vivid engagement carried by soaring, ripely Romantic playing.”  

The group formed at The Juilliard School, and is comprised of violinist Itamar Zorman, pianist Liza Stepanova, and cellist Michael Katz. Highlights of the past few seasons include a return engagement at Atlanta’s premier chamber music series at Spivey Hall, a multi-concert residency with Chamber Music Tulsa, a weeklong series of performances and educational activities at New Orleans’s Crescent City Chamber Music Festival, and appearances with Massachusetts’ Valley Classical Concerts.  

The Lysander Trio also performed abroad in recent seasons, notably at Calgary Pro Musica in Canada, Pro Musica San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, and a tour of Israel.

Registered yoga teacher Susan Bonnici offers another gentle yoga course onsite at BHC. Classes will meet weekly on Tuesdays, at 4:00 pm, from July 8 through August 26.

Susan will be guiding students to gradually build flexibility and skills that they can take from the mat to life.

Suggested donation to participate in the series is $60.

Register here.

Questions? Contact Susan.

Registered yoga teacher Susan Bonnici offers another gentle yoga course onsite at BHC. Classes will meet weekly on Tuesdays, at 4:00 pm, from July 8 through August 26.

Susan will be guiding students to gradually build flexibility and skills that they can take from the mat to life.

Suggested donation to participate in the series is $60.

Register here.

Questions? Contact Susan.

All About Me! moderated by Dave Goldstone

IFor anyone who loves American comedy, the long wait is over. Here are the never-before-told, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and remembrances from a master storyteller, filmmaker, and creator of all things funny.

All About Me! charts Mel Brooks’s meteoric rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to the recipient of the National Medal of Arts. Whether serving in the United States Army in World War II, or during his burgeoning career as a teenage comedian in the Catskills, Mel was always mining his experiences for material, always looking for the perfect joke. His iconic career began with Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows, where he was part of the greatest writers’ room in history, which included Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart. After co-creating both the mega-hit 2000 Year Old Man comedy albums and the classic television series Get Smart, Brooks’s stellar film career took off. He would go on to write, direct, and star in The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, and Spaceballs, as well as produce groundbreaking and eclectic films, including The Elephant Man, The Fly, and My Favorite Year. Brooks then went on to conquer Broadway with his record-breaking, Tony-winning musical, The Producers.

Meetings are open to anyone, and everyone interested in participating in a reading group. Contact the book club for details, to volunteer, or get Zoom login information.

Mr. Arnowitt will peform:

• Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo in B minor, Op. 119 No. 1

• Gyorgy Ligeti: Étude No. 2, Cordes à vide (Open strings) and Étude No. 10, Der Zauberlehrling (The sorcerer’s apprentice)

• Victoria Poleva: Ischia Island

• Igor Stravinsky: Two selections from the music to his ballet Petrushka

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata no. 32 in C minor, Op. 11

Michael Aronwitt

Returning pianist Michael Arnowitt will present the closing performance of the series on August 23rd.  

Michael’s musical landscapes and sense of touch at the keyboard have delighted audiences around the world, from his home in Vermont to Canada, Korea, Russia, and many European countries.  

His life and music are the subjects of a documentary film, “Beyond 88 Keys” (2004), which has been broadcast on public television and shown at festivals in Europe and the United States. 

His many unique creative projects include “If Music Be the Food of Love,” a program of classical and jazz music about food, simultaneously serving to the audience the food tastes that inspired the composers.  For another intriguing collaboration, he combines his piano improvisations with the live creation of paintings on stage by visual artists. 

As a distinguished event organizer, he directed the Vermont Millennium Music Festival chronicling music from the year 1000 to 2000, and a number of large-scale fundraisers for humanitarian aid for Balkan and Syrian war refugees

Registered yoga teacher Susan Bonnici offers another gentle yoga course onsite at BHC. Classes will meet weekly on Tuesdays, at 4:00 pm, from July 8 through August 27.

Susan will be guiding students to gradually build flexibility and skills that they can take from the mat to life.

Suggested donation to participate in the series is $60.

Register here.

Questions? Contact Susan.