The Bucks County Choral Society presents

The Bucks County Choral Society presents a concert entitled A Celebration of American Musical Theater…Past and Future on Sunday, June 1 at 4 PM in Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Doylestown PA.

Included are favorite songs from Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific, Brigadoon, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, and more. Featured soloists are Jenny Eisenhower and Ben Dibble, both currently starring in Arsenic & Old Lace at the Walnut Street Theater. For more details look on the website

http://www.buckschoral.org/ or call Gerald Hurst at 215-947-1180.

Springtual Bryn Athyn

Having spent by formative years in the countryside of England, Great Bardfield to be exact, I am drawn to Bryn Athyn for it's non-matching houses, it's rambly community vegetable garden and the grace and stature of both the cathedral and the castles.

Bryn Athyn is ever-more beautiful in Spring, when its seems as if God himself has electrified the gardens and is the awakened the songbirds to sing..

 Each carefully laid rock wall is softened by the creeping of Mountain Pinks and Baby Tears, every bed bursting with a riot of colour, tulips and peonies, lilacs and violets, pansies, Phlox and budding roses and with it a new scent held momentarily before you, clinging to your garments and fading as you pass.

 Come to Bryn Athyn and enjoy our newly awakened gardens.

Katie Kennedy

THE BRYN ATHYN BOUNTY FARM MARKET

 2014 season started last Saturday with a great selection of plants for sale, delicious food by our local Be Well Bakery and Café, and many interesting and fun vendors!

 Same time, same place this Saturday, May 10 – 9am-12pm, Pendleton Oak Grove at 3002 Cairnwood Drive. Have fun, connect with a great community, and support our fantastic local produce, musicians, bakers, cooks and artists!

Interested in being a vendor? Email babountyfarmmarket@gmail.com Interested in volunteering? Email bounty.volunteers@gmail.com.

BOILEAU FESTIVAL

SAT., MAY 3 - BOILEAU FESTIVAL - 11 am to 3 pm

Visit Upper Moreland Township's last standing Colonial farmstead and enjoy:

Colonial-style Cooking

Live Musicians

Revolutionary War Re-Enactors Demonstration

Early American Pastimes for Children

Colonial Wool Spinning

Wood Joining Demonstration

Live Animals & Pony Ride

Barn/Farming Interpreter

Penn's Woods Puppet Theater

Colonial Ice Cream Lady

Free Food & Beverages

It's free and open to the public - Come when you can, Leave when you must Bring family, friends and the kids!

The Boileau Farmstead

Byberry & Orangemans Roads

Upper Moreland Township

Time: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Cost: Free

Native Plant and Wildflower Sale

Those interested in planting and/or learning about native plants won’t want to miss the Native Plant and Wildflower Sale at the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust offered by Pennypack’s Growing Native Gardeners. Native plants offer a lower maintenance and dependable alternative to labor-intensive gardening because they’re well adapted to our region. The two-day plant sale is on Friday, May 2, from 2 – 7 p.m. and Saturday, May 3, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Admission is free.

Bryn Athyn Orchestra's spring program

The final work in Bryn Athyn Orchestra's spring program is the idyllic 6th symphony. Here is what Beethoven himself said about the work:  Pastoral Symphony, more an expression of feeling than painting.

1st piece: pleasant feelings which awaken in men on arriving in the countryside.

 2d piece: scene by the brook.

3d piece: merry gathering of country people, interrupted by 4th piece: thunder and storm, into which breaks

5th piece: salutary feelings, with thanks to the Deity.  

Either you are familiar with this enchanting work and love it already, or you should come and hear it so it can become one of your top ten!

Hope to see you ALL on May 11 at 3 pm at the Mitchell Performing Arts Center.

Neutra's Pitcairn House

Since there is a house, designed by Richard J. Neutra, listed in Bryn Athyn, we thought that it would be a good time to remember who Neutra was.

Neutra was born in Austria Hungary, on April 8, 1892. He was famous for the attention he gave to defining the real needs of his clients, regardless of the size of the project, in contrast to other architects eager to impose their artistic vision on a client. Neutra sometimes used detailed questionnaires to discover his client's needs, much to their surprise. His domestic architecture was a blend of art, landscape and practical comfort.

Neutra had a sharp sense of irony. In his autobiography, Life and Shape, he included a playful anecdote about an anonymous movie producer-client who electrified the moat around the house that Neutra designed for him and had his Persian butler fish out the bodies in the morning and dispose of them in a specially designed incinerator. This was a much-embellished account of an actual client, Josef von Sternberg, who indeed had a moated house but not an electrified one.

Neutra (1892–1970) was a prophet of clean, crisp modernism said Time Magazine and put him on the cover.

To see some of his work and check out the listed house;

http://www.everyhome.com/Home-For-Sale/2860-Paper-Mill-Road-Bryn-Athyn-PA

http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architecture/2011-04/richard_neutra_slideshow