5 Things You Need to Know Today: April Fools' Day

1. Powers Music School faculty member and violinist Guan-Ting Liao will lead listeners through Baroque musical history in "From Biber to Bach," part of the school's "Music on Mondays" concert series. This free concert will illustrate the evolution of the solo violin repertoire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, from composers such as Heinrich Biber, Johann Paul von Westhoff, Johann Georg Pisendel and J.S. Bach. The concert will take place in the Betsy Washburn Cabot Room at the Powers Music School, 380 Concord Ave. RSVP please: 617-484-4696.

2. Belmont World Film continues its international film series, “Found in Translation,” with a distinct French (and Icelandic) accent as it screens the East Coast premiere of "Queen of Montreuil," at 7:30 p.m. at the Studio Cinema. This bittersweet comedy, in French, English, Icelandic, tells the story of a young woman who tries to get her life on track as a film director after her husband suddenly dies. Returning home to the Paris suburb of Montreuil with her husband's ashes, she is greeted by the unexpected arrival of a couple of Icelanders, a sea lion and a neighbor that she has always desired. The always entertaining and thought-provoking Tom Meek, president of the Boston Society of Film Critics, will lead a discussion after the film. See a YouTube clip of the film on this Web page.

3. State Sen. Will Brownsberger will be holding office hours from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Claflin Room of the Belmont Public Library. 

4. The proposed Dunkin' Donuts at 64 Concord Avenue will have its day (or night) in the public eye as the applicant will be before the Zoning Board of Appeal at 7 p.m. as he will seek a special permit to run a restaurant and amend the current agreement that allowed the strip mall to be built so he can determine how much parking he'll need as well as installing a dumpster. 

5. Taking its cue from the successful Foundation for Belmont Education, a new organization, Belmont's Sorry Streets/Sidewalks, (its motto is "You can't have truly great schools if you can't get to them") will focus on the deplorable condition of many of the town's roadways through the solicitation of public and private donations. Under the master plan, the precincts which raise the most money will have the first use of the funds for patching roads, holding street parties/demonstrations and painting sections of uneven sidewalks as an early warning method for people attempting to push strollers over. Symbolically, the group holds its first meeting at the corner of Palfrey and Hammond at 6:30 p.m., a section of roadway that visiting Peruvian national highway commissioner, Senior Día de los Inocentes, noted would be considered "too miserable" for any mountain road in the Andes.