Past Events

GBH Music and JazzBoston are co-hosting a new series to showcase the breadth of incredible jazz talent in the Greater Boston area. The event is held on the second Thursday of every month through February.

This month, hear selections from the American songbook with a touch of bebop, with jazz trumpeter and vocalist Christine Fawson.

Tickets are free, but registration is encouraged. Please note that by registering for this event you agree to receive email communications from GBH Music.

Limited seating is available on a first come, first serve basis. If you require a seat, we encourage you to arrive before the start time of this event.

Join Estate Planning Strategist, Jere Doyle, to learn how the election is expected to impact tax law and what it may mean for your estate plan. Enjoy a coffee and tea reception following the program.

The current estate tax exemption is scheduled to ‘sunset’ on January 1, 2026. If Congress does not act the exemption amount could be cut by almost half. Come learn planning strategies for estates of all sizes and how these changes could impact your plan.


Jere Doyle is an estate planning strategist for BNY Wealth and a senior vice president of BNY. He has been with the firm since 1981. Jere provides wealthy individuals and families throughout the country with integrated wealth management advice on how to hold, manage and transfer their wealth in a tax efficient manner.



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3pm Coffee and Tea Reception

Join GBH Music's quartet in residence, the Ulysses Quartet, for a performance at the Boston Public Library!

Tickets are free, but registration is encouraged. Please note that by registering for this event you agree to receive email communications from GBH and CRB Classical.

About the Ulysses Quartet:

The Ulysses Quartet has been praised for their “textural versatility,” “grave beauty” and “the kind of chemistry many quartets long for, but rarely achieve” (The Strad). Founded in 2015, the group won the grand prize and gold medal in the senior string division of the 2016 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and first prize in the 2018 Schoenfeld International String Competition. The quartet’s members hail from Canada, the United States and Taiwan. They have performed in such prestigious halls as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Jordan Hall, the Picasso Museum in Málaga and Washington’s National Gallery of Art among many others. At Juilliard from 2019 to 2022, they were the Lisa Arnhold Fellows, serving as the School’s Graduate Resident String Quartet for 3 years. The group’s name pays homage to Homer’s hero Odysseus and his 10-year voyage home. The members of Ulysses perform on instruments and bows on loan from the Maestro Foundation and private donors.


Limited seating is available on a first come, first serve basis. If you require a seat, we encourage you to arrive before the start time of this event.


Location: The GBH Studio at the Boston Public Library is located at 700 Boylston St. at the corner of Exeter Street inside the Newsfeed Café.

Program:
ERIK SATIE arr. Koncz: A New Satiesfaction (Gymnopédie No. 1)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, K. 157 “Milanese”
CHRISTINA BOUEY: Soul
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 44, No. 1


Photo credit: Lara St. John

Dr. Robert Waldinger reveals the answers to the question: What makes for a happy and fulfilling life? His TED Talk about the Harvard Study, “What Makes a Good Life,” has been viewed more than 47 million times and is one of the ten most-watched TED talks ever. Join JCC Greater Boston as Dr. Waldinger shares important lessons on how to build a fulfilling, long life.

Humans are the most innovative species on Earth. See how engineers are supercharging our abilities, reaching beyond our horizons, and altering our environment in the upcoming NOVA Building Stuff series.

Join NOVA at GBH for a screening of selected clips from the 3-part Building Stuff series paired with a panel discussion featuring experts from the film.

Featured panelists include:

• Chris Schmidt — Moderator, Co-Executive Producer, NOVA
• Shriya Srinivasan — Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard John A. Paulsen School of Engineering and Applied Science
• Philip Troyk — Executive Director, Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
• Maria Yang — Faculty Academic Director, MIT D-Lab, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Following the program, we will host a catered reception in the GBH Atrium.

Join GBH News reporter Jeremy Siegel for a panel discussion at the GBH studio at the BPL. He sits down with local transportation experts and activists from MassBike, StreetsBlogMA and Critical Mass, as well as those personally harmed by crashes. Together they examine how we talk about the impact and loss.

Coming up just before the World Day of Remembrance for Victims of Traffic Crashes, hear from those most impacted by traffic crashes and those who are challenging the status quo on how they are reported. 

In September, 1974 – two days after her 14th birthday – Leola Hampton boarded a school bus that would launch her into the heart of one of the most divisive and defining moments in Boston history: court-ordered school desegregation. She and her older sister, Linda Starks-Walker, were bused from their home in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Roxbury into the white, working-class neighborhood of South Boston. They navigated a violent and virulently racist high school experience so scarring that a half-century later, they are only now beginning to discuss it with each other.


Leola and Linda share their story in GBH News' short documentary, "'Never Cried': Boston's Busing Legacy". Join us for a screening of the film, along with a discussion with the film's producer and subjects about how the legacy of Boston's busing crisis lives on today.

Cambridge Forum is pleased to mark the 75^th anniversary of the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949, with an in-depth discussion about George Orwell’s life, work and legacy.

Written at a time when Orwell was seriously ill, 1984 had a dubious beginning with few interested in publishing it, yet it went on to become a classic literary example of political and dystopian fiction. Its themes struck a chord with readers worldwide due to its focus on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repression, which have remained timeless. The novel, which was Orwell’s final book, examines the role of truth and facts within society and the ways in which they can be manipulated, hence the creation of the term “Orwellian”.

To help us understand the complex but brilliant mind of this great writer, we have two wonderful writers who are specialists on Orwell, Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Nathan Waddell, Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham.

Susan E. Eaton, in conversation about her book, The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line.

METCO, America’s longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, buses children of color from Boston’s city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. In contrast to the infamous violence and rage that greeted forced school busing within the city in the 1970s, the work of METCO has quietly and calmly promoted school integration. But how has this program affected the lives of its graduates? Would they choose to participate if they had it to do over again? Would they place their own children on the bus to suburbia? In The Other Boston Busing Story, sixty-five METCO graduates who are now adults answer those questions and more, vividly recalling their own stories and assessing the benefits and hardships of crossing racial and class lines on their way to school.

Susan Eaton will be in conversation with Stephanie Leydon, executive producer of digital video at GBH News.

The book talk will be preceded by the screening of the GBH News documentary Never Cried: Boston's Busing Legacy and a talkback with the filmmaker Emily Judem.

More about the film here.

The United States and Middle East are at a crossroads. In spite of a reduced presence in the Middle East, the U.S. still has significant national interests there and the area is a key arena for global power politics. Can the U.S. continue to defend its interests in the Middle East and globally with a lower level of military and political involvement, or should it recommit to a leading role in the region?

Join WorldBoston for a timely discussion of this topic with Dr. Ali Banuazizi, Research Professor of Political Science at Boston College.