BOSTON – The sun peeked through the windows as the sounds of classical piano gently filled the air. A 13-year-old black cat snoozed on a sofa, sharing the living room with guests who had come to the creaky old Jamaica Plain home to listen to music from 19th century composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert.
"It's a way to hear chamber music being played in an intimate setting," host Matt Gillman said to the assembled audience, who sat on the sofa and mismatched chairs in his living room on Saturday afternoon.
BOSTON – Three Hub artists from a mix of disciplines will receive $20,000 stipends to work with Boston agencies and civic groups on arts projects as the city's first artists in residence, Mayor Marty Walsh announced Tuesday.
The awards will fund six months of collaborative work for each of the recipients, L'Merchie Frazier, Georgie Friedman and Shaw Pong Liu. They will each work with a city department and other organizations on "creative approaches that can be incorporated into the work of the city," Walsh's office said in a statement about the program, called Boston AIR.
