5 Things: Honors Concert at the Chenery, The Rite of Spring's Centennial

1. The Chenery Middle School Honors Concert will take place at 7 p.m. in the Chenery Middle School auditorium. It's free. Come see the next generation of great Belmont musicians tonight.

2. Paprika Kids will be hosting Sing-a-Long with Lenka at 11 a.m. at the store located at 404 Trapelo Rd., on the same block at the Studio Cinema. Since early childhood, Lenka has always been involved in one musical project or another, singing in choirs, playing the piano and the guitar. The Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton recently awarded Lenka Music Together Certification Level I status for outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy and parent education. Recommended for kids up to 5 years old. Sign up is required for this free event so call 617-993-3431.

3. It's Storytime for 1's in the Flett Room across from the Children's Room at the Belmont Public Library. This program, for walkers and toddlers under 24 months, is about sharing simple stories, songs, finger plays, nursery rhymes and puppets. The fun starts at 10:30 a.m.

4. Duplicate Bridge Club meets from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Beech Street Center at 266 Beech St. Every Wednesday the club holds American Contact Bridge League-sanctioned games. All are welcome to play. Cost is $5. 

5. On this day 100 years ago, in 1913, Igor Stravinsky's ballet score, The Rite of Spring, receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a so called "riot." Much that has been said of this event was exaggerated by the young and just known Stravinsky's management later: yes, a "riot" did occurr but not so much for the score itself; there was much more radical experimentation going on at the time. In reality, it was the avant-garde choreography by the great dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich, combined with music not usually heard at the ballet, that caused the audience - filled with older men coming to see the dancer - that led to cat calls and the such.