‘Music is a language of delightful sensations’

    

Two live music concerts to tell you about. Sorry this first one comes so late, but I learned of it only today. Wish I could go. All the info you need is in the above advertisement.

However, a few weeks off, the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts will host “A Concert for Brotherhood, Family, and Future” at the Boston Masonic Building. From the publicity:

Boston Latin American Quartet.

Brother, you are invited to the Grand Lodge Gala 2025, presented by the Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts in support of Massachusetts Rainbow Girls and DeMolay.

Eliot Fisk and Zaira Meneses.

Join us for an afternoon of world-class music featuring celebrated artists Zaira Meneses, classical guitarist; Eliot Fisk, virtuoso guitarist; and Boston Latin American Quartet, celebrating rich musical traditions.

Sunday, May 4

186 Tremont Street, Boston

Doors open at 1 p.m. followed by hors d’oeuvres reception. Tickets are on sale now here. Business Attire.

The headline of this edition of The Magpie Mason is borrowed from the lecture of the Fellow Craft Degree, as rendered in New York.

     

‘Book club’s inaugural meeting’

    

A partnership between New Jersey Lodge of Masonic Research and Education 1786 and Jerusalem Lodge 26 will come to fruition Saturday in the first meeting of their book club. Allen E. Roberts’ Freemasonry in American History is to be explored.

The brethren will meet in the library (third floor) of the Plainfield Masonic Temple, located at 105 East Seventh Street in historic Plainfield, New Jersey. Great building. One of two remaining 1920s vintage multi-room Masonic temples in the state.

It’s a fine choice for a first book for the club. Written in the popular style, rather than academic, Freemasonry in American History is an easy read that checks off the major people, places, and events that every Mason in this country ought to know about. From what I recollect from about twenty-five years ago, the author’s editorializing is sometimes amusing but, again, this is not a textbook. Its first nine chapters will be discussed.

Copies of the book will be available for $20 each, and a PDF is found here.

Be there by 10 a.m. Plenty of parking.