SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange Performing Arts Center celebrates the contributions of local leaders at its 2019 gala on Saturday, Nov. 2, beginning at 5:45 p.m. This annual event is an important part of the center’s fundraising, as well as recognizing the valuable contributions of the people and organizations who support SOPAC in […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange Symphony Orchestra will be joined by the 100-voice Columbia High School Symphonic Choir, directed by Jamie Bunce, on Sunday, Oct. 27, at 3 p.m. at South Orange Middle School, 70 N. Ridgewood Road. The free concert features Haydn’s great oratorio, “The Creation (Part I),” with chorus and soloists; […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Hundreds of people of all ages turned out to enjoy the second Oktoberfest at The Woodland on Oct. 5, helping to raise $8,500 for the Vanessa Pollock Music Initiative of the Achieve Foundation. “We are honored that the organizers of Oktoberfest chose the Achieve Foundation as the recipient of funds raised at […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Students from Columbia High School traveled to New York City’s Carnegie Hall on Friday, Oct. 11, to attend the 2019 Sphinx Virtuosi Concert. The fourth annual trip was coordinated and chaperoned by James Manno, the school district’s fine arts supervisor, with additional chaperone support provided by parent and cellist Sarah Hewitt-Roth. The […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — More than 75 elementary and middle school students joined with the West Orange High School Marching Band on Oct. 11 for the fifth annual District Band Night, held under the lights at Suriano Stadium. Musicians from West Orange elementary and middle schools were grouped according to their instruments with Marching Band […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Ember Ensemble of Schola Cantorum on Hudson, founded in 1995 by Artistic Director Deborah Simpkin King, will launch its 25th anniversary season with a concert titled “Civil Discourse” at two performances, one on Saturday, Nov. 9, in New York City and the other on Sunday, Nov. 10, in South Orange. […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — South Orange Symphony will perform its free fall concert on Sunday, Oct. 27, at 3 p.m. at South Orange Middle School, 70 N. Ridgewood Road. Join South Orange’s resident community orchestra to hear the music of the spooky and the sublime. Columbia High School’s Symphonic Choir joins the orchestra for Haydn’s […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — To celebrate the publication of “Edison,” the new biography of Thomas A. Edison by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris, Random House will host a book launch reception on Saturday, October 26, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the park’s laboratory complex. The event is free and open to the general public. […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Marni Raab is used to being caked in stage makeup and being under a spotlight, but now she’s taking a turn behind the curtain to produce “Fear,” an off-Broadway show that opened Oct. 15 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York. The show, written by Matt Williams, was developed at […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — This weekend the SouthNEXT festival returns to the SOMA community with its “Creative Collision of Inspirational Ideas, Arts and Music.” SouthNEXT, New Jersey’s festival that explores people’s similarities by celebrating their differences, returns to the South Orange Performing Arts Center, 1 SOPAC Way, on Saturday, Oct. 19, and to Seton Hall […]