About Nostalgia Songfests

About Nostalgia Songfests

About Nostalgia Songfests

About Nostalgia Songfests

Alan Pearlmutter believes that music serves to educate, ennoble, edify, empower, and entertain. He has touched the lives of countless individuals over several decades through the musical arts. As an educator, performer, and community leader, he has brought music to serve public and private four-year colleges, community colleges, public and private pre-college schools, music educators, amateur, student, and professional musicians, along with concert audiences. From 2011 to 2022, Alan produced and conducted the concerts of the Kammerwerke Double Wind Quintet featuring rare classical works for ten winds. During that decade he also created numerous music history courses, teaching them at Bristol Community College, Quinsigamond Community College, and Fitchburg State University. Alan Pearlmutter holds music education degrees from Brooklyn College, CUNY, and a doctorate from the Peabody Conservatory of Music.     Click or tap to view PDF version of this Bio.
Linda Poland has had extensive orchestral experience as a section clarinetist, most notably with the Albany (NY) and the New Bedford (MA) Symphony Orchestras. Linda has performed as a substitute clarinetist with the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Symphony NH, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Portland Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Lyric Opera and the former Opera Company of Boston. Equally proficient with theater and chamber music, she has performed with the Kammerwerke Double Wind Quintet, the New Repertory Theater, the Bay Chamber Orchestra, and various other chamber music ensembles. Linda received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Maryland in College Park and holds a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. She currently teaches clarinet for the University of Massachusetts Boston, Milton Academy, Milton Public Schools, Noble and Greenough School, and Dedham Country Day School, all in the Boston region.     Click or tap to view PDF version of this Bio.
 
Nostalgia Songfests - Since 2011, Alan and his wife Linda Poland have been creative torchbearers, developing, producing, arranging, narrating, and performing musically unique and colorful nostalgic programs to enlighten the residents of senior living communities. Their shared backgrounds in both popular and classical music launched an ongoing evolution of events which draw on film music, show tunes, classical music, international songs and dances, along with Yiddish and klezmer favorites. Alan enhances his keyboard playing by singing, arranges many of the songs for clarinet, and accompanies Linda. Linda also arranges songs for her instrument and helps choose musical material, especially from the classical and Broadway repertoire. Alan and Linda have performed more than four hundred and fifty concerts in the senior communities of Boston and surrounding regions.
 
Alan Pearlmutter believes that music serves to educate, ennoble, edify, empower, and entertain. He has touched the lives of countless individuals over several decades through the musical arts. As an educator, performer, and community leader, he has brought music to serve public and private four-year colleges, community colleges, public and private pre-college schools, music educators, amateur, student, and professional musicians, along with concert audiences. From 2011 to 2022, Alan produced and conducted the concerts of the Kammerwerke Double Wind Quintet featuring rare classical works for ten winds. During that decade he also created numerous music history courses, teaching them at Bristol Community College, Quinsigamond Community College, and Fitchburg State University. Alan Pearlmutter holds music education degrees from Brooklyn College, CUNY, and a doctorate from the Peabody Conservatory of Music.     Click or tap to view PDF version of this Bio.
 
Linda Poland has had extensive orchestral experience as a section clarinetist, most notably with the Albany (NY) and the New Bedford (MA) Symphony Orchestras. Linda has performed as a substitute clarinetist with the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Symphony NH, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Portland Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Lyric Opera and the former Opera Company of Boston. Equally proficient with theater and chamber music, she has performed with the Kammerwerke Double Wind Quintet, the New Repertory Theater, the Bay Chamber Orchestra, and various other chamber music ensembles. Linda received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Maryland in College Park and holds a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. She currently teaches clarinet for the University of Massachusetts Boston, Milton Academy, Milton Public Schools, Noble and Greenough School, and Dedham Country Day School, all in the Boston region.     Click or tap to view PDF version of this Bio.
 
 
Nostalgia Songfests - Since 2011, Alan and his wife Linda Poland have been creative torchbearers, developing, producing, arranging, narrating, and performing musically unique and colorful nostalgic programs to enlighten the residents of senior living communities. Their shared backgrounds in both popular and classical music launched an ongoing evolution of events which draw on film music, show tunes, classical music, international songs and dances, along with Yiddish and klezmer favorites. Alan enhances his keyboard playing by singing, arranges many of the songs for clarinet, and accompanies Linda. Linda also arranges songs for her instrument and helps choose musical material, especially from the classical and Broadway repertoire. Alan and Linda have performed more than four hundred and fifty concerts in the senior communities of Boston and surrounding regions.
 
Alan Pearlmutter believes that music serves to educate, ennoble, edify, empower, and entertain. He has touched the lives of countless individuals over several decades through the musical arts. As an educator, performer, and community leader, he has brought music to serve public and private four-year colleges, community colleges, public and private pre-college schools, music educators, amateur, student, and professional musicians, along with concert audiences. From 2011 to 2022, Alan produced and conducted the concerts of the Kammerwerke Double Wind Quintet featuring rare classical works for ten winds. During that decade he also created numerous music history courses, teaching them at Bristol Community College, Quinsigamond Community College, and Fitchburg State University. Alan Pearlmutter holds music education degrees from Brooklyn College, CUNY, and a doctorate from the Peabody Conservatory of Music.     Click or tap to view PDF version of this Bio.

Linda Poland has had extensive orchestral experience as a section clarinetist, most notably with the Albany (NY) and the New Bedford (MA) Symphony Orchestras. Linda has performed as a substitute clarinetist with the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Symphony NH, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Portland Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Lyric Opera and the former Opera Company of Boston. Equally proficient with theater and chamber music, she has performed with the Kammerwerke Double Wind Quintet, the New Repertory Theater, the Bay Chamber Orchestra, and various other chamber music ensembles. Linda received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Maryland in College Park and holds a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. She currently teaches clarinet for the University of Massachusetts Boston, Milton Academy, Milton Public Schools, Noble and Greenough School, and Dedham Country Day School, all in the Boston region.     Click or tap to view PDF version of this Bio.

Nostalgia Songfests - Since 2011, Alan and his wife Linda Poland have been creative torchbearers, developing, producing, arranging, narrating, and performing musically unique and colorful nostalgic programs to enlighten the residents of senior living communities. Their shared backgrounds in both popular and classical music launched an ongoing evolution of events which draw on film music, show tunes, classical music, international songs and dances, along with Yiddish and klezmer favorites. Alan enhances his keyboard playing by singing, arranges many of the songs for clarinet, and accompanies Linda. Linda also arranges songs for her instrument and helps choose musical material, especially from the classical and Broadway repertoire. Alan and Linda have performed more than four hundred and fifty concerts in the senior communities of Boston and surrounding regions.

Alan Pearlmutter believes that music serves to educate, ennoble, edify, empower, and entertain. He has touched the lives of countless individuals over several decades through the musical arts. As an educator, performer, and community leader, he has brought music to serve public and private four-year colleges, community colleges, public and private pre-college schools, music educators, amateur, student, and professional musicians, along with concert audiences. From 2011 to 2022, Alan produced and conducted the concerts of the Kammerwerke Double Wind Quintet featuring rare classical works for ten winds. During that decade he also created numerous music history courses, teaching them at Bristol Community College, Quinsigamond Community College, and Fitchburg State University. Alan Pearlmutter holds music education degrees from Brooklyn College, CUNY, and a doctorate from the Peabody Conservatory of Music.     Click or tap to view PDF version of this Bio.

Linda Poland has had extensive orchestral experience as a section clarinetist, most notably with the Albany (NY) and the New Bedford (MA) Symphony Orchestras. Linda has performed as a substitute clarinetist with the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Symphony NH, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Portland Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Lyric Opera and the former Opera Company of Boston. Equally proficient with theater and chamber music, she has performed with the Kammerwerke Double Wind Quintet, the New Repertory Theater, the Bay Chamber Orchestra, and various other chamber music ensembles. Linda received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Maryland in College Park and holds a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. She currently teaches clarinet for the University of Massachusetts Boston, Milton Academy, Milton Public Schools, Noble and Greenough School, and Dedham Country Day School, all in the Boston region.     Click or tap to view PDF version of this Bio.

Nostalgia Songfests - Since 2011, Alan and his wife Linda Poland have been creative torchbearers, developing, producing, arranging, narrating, and performing musically unique and colorful nostalgic programs to enlighten the residents of senior living communities. Their shared backgrounds in both popular and classical music launched an ongoing evolution of events which draw on film music, show tunes, classical music, international songs and dances, along with Yiddish and klezmer favorites. Alan enhances his keyboard playing by singing, arranges many of the songs for clarinet, and accompanies Linda. Linda also arranges songs for her instrument and helps choose musical material, especially from the classical and Broadway repertoire. Alan and Linda have performed more than four hundred and fifty concerts in the senior communities of Boston and surrounding regions.
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