Benjamin Britten: A Centennial Celebration
Fri, November 08, 2013 – Fri, November 08, 2013
Time: 8:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: West Side Presbyterian Church, 6 South Monroe Street, Ridgewood NJ
Cost: $23 per person
The Pro Arte Chorale will honor Benjamin Britten’s Centennial with a performance of several of his best known compositions, including works such as Festival Te Deum, Hymn to the Virgin, and more!
Purchase tickets online at www.proartechorale.org. Email: [email protected]
The Pro Arte Chorale strives to be one of New Jersey’s foremost volunteer choruses and to be among the top rank of regional choruses in America. The Chorale is committed to enriching the lives of its members, its audience and the broader community by exploring many musical traditions in a variety of venues, presenting performances of the highest artistic quality, and supporting educational endeavors.
Founded in 1964, the Pro Arte Chorale is celebrating its 50th season as one of the Northeast’s most prominent choral organizations. The Chorale has appeared in major concert venues across the region including the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the South Orange Performing Arts Center. In addition to its own subscription series, the Chorale has appeared with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Westfield Symphony Orchestra, and the Mark Morris Dance Company. In May 2008 the Pro Arte Chorale traveled to Liverpool, UK to peform with the Liverpool Welsh Choral at Mossley Hill Church, as part of Liverpool’s celebration as Cultural Capital of Europe. In May 2009 the Liverpool Welsh Choral traveled to the U.S. to join the Pro Arte Chorale and Westfield Symphony Orchestra in performances of Verdi’s Requiem in Ridgewood and Westfield, NJ.
The Chorale has been conducted by William Memmott, John Nelson, Roger Nierenberg, Bart Folse, David Crone, and Joshua Greene. In addition, the Chorale has sung under the batons of Nicholas McGegan, Zubin Mehta, Julius Rudel, Hugh Wolff, Zdenek Macal, Yuri Temirkanov, Leon Botstein, Gerard Schwartz and David Wroe.
Be sure to check out our Special Events page for our latest updates on events throughout the year.
Pro Arte Chorale is a proud recipient of funding from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Brentano String Quartet, Stephen Williamson, Principal Clarinet, NY Philharmonic and Hisn-Yun Huang, Viola in concert at 4PM Sunday October 27, 2013 at Westside Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, NJ. Music performed will include selections by Beethoven, Mozart and Mendelssohn. Tickets available at ParlanceChamberConcerts.org or at the door. Free parking and childcare are provided.
Our October 27th opener will present the magnificent Brentano String Quartet, whose playing was featured in the acclaimed 2012 film drama A Late Quartet. The New York Times has called their playing “exhilarating…this intensely physical quartet is defined by passion.” The Brentano players will be joined by The New York Philharmonic’s new principal clarinetist, Stephen Williamson, and violist Hsin-Yun Huang in an afternoon of sparkling classics by Beethoven, Mozart, and Mendelssohn.
On November 17, it will be my pleasure to introduce the scintillating young pianist Conrad Tao, one of today’s most multidimensional artists. The only classical musician on Forbes’ 2011 “30 Under 30” list of people changing the world, the Chinese-American pianist is also an award-winning composer who was recently commissioned by the Dallas Symphony to compose a work observing the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, which will be performed in November of 2013. Conrad’s panoramic recital will include Ravel’s haunting, quicksilver dreamscape, Gaspard de la nuit, Mussorgsky’s bravura Pictures at an Exhibition, and his own dream-inspired piece, vestiges.
Our December 15th concert will showcase the artistry of four celebrated performers. Met Soprano Susanna Phillips (starring twice this season, both as Fiordiligi in James Levine’s comeback performances of Cosi fan tutte and as Rosalinde in the Met’s new production of Die Fledermaus) will be joined by the Met’s brilliant principal hornist Erik Ralske, the Emerson String Quartet’s violinist Philip Setzer, and the renowned collaborative pianist Warren Jones. Their program will include songs of Schubert and Strauss, a selection of Christmas favorites, and Brahms’s valiant trio for horn, violin, and piano.
On March 30, PCC will welcome back the extraordinary young cellist Nicholas Canellakis, who will be joined by two equally charismatic virtuosos, violinist Arnaud Sussmann and pianist Alessio Bax. Their far-flung musical journey will range from the hot-blooded gypsy world of Ravel’s Tzigane and Brahms’s Hungarian Dance No. 5, to the refined elegance of Mendelssohn’s D major cello sonata, to the full-throated passion of Anton Arensky’s D minor Piano Trio.
The season will culminate on April 27 with the return of the great Stephanie Blythe. She will collaborate with co-reciter Raymond Menard in William Walton’s gem of Jazz Age musical humor, Façade Entertainments. Inspired by the sophisticated, often subversive poetry of Edith Sitwell, Façade brought overnight success to Walton, as well as a reputation as the enfant terrible of modern English music. I will lead a stellar ensemble of principal players from the Met Orchestra.
Also included on the program will be a group of 1920s instrumental solos, including Erwin Schulhoff’s flapper-tinged Hot Sonata featuring Met saxophonist Lino Gomez; Victor Herbert’s touching ‘Songs’ for cello and piano with the Met’s lyrical principal cellist Jerry Grossman; Darius Milhaud’s bluesy flute Sonatine showcasing Met principal flutist Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson; and a selection of witty xylophone rags performed by Met principal percussionist Gregory Zuber. All of these works will be accompanied by pianist Warren Jones.
Halloween Safety Tips from The Chief John M. Ward
!0/27/13
With a little luck we should have decent weather for Halloween this year. As our children take to the streets on Halloween to trick-or-treat, I would like to remind everyone of a few safety tips to ensure that the treats are plentiful and tricks fun and safe.
To help ensure that this Halloween is fun and safe the Ridgewood Police Department will be deploying extra officers on both October 30th and Halloween.
Additionally we secured glow sticks and (AAA) Halloween bags which will be available to the public. (glow sticks and bags will be available at our police desk)
Here are some tips for helping keep young ones safe on Halloween:
Motorists -The National Highway Safety Administration and The CDC list Halloween as one of the top days for pedestrian involved accidents especially children. Because excited trick-or-treaters often forget about safety, motorists and parents must be even more alert. While the festivities may start earlier in the day, the most popular trick-or-treating hours are 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. so be especially alert for kids during those hours.
•Slow down in residential neighborhoods and obey all traffic signs and signals.
•Drive at least 5 mph below the posted speed limit to give yourself extra time to react to children who may dart into the street.
•Watch for children walking on roadways, medians and curbs. In dark costumes, they’ll be harder to see at night.
•Look for children crossing the street. They may not be paying attention to traffic and cross the street mid-block or between parked cars.
•Carefully enter and exit driveways and alleys.
•Turn on your headlights to make yourself more visible – even in the daylight.
• Eliminate any distractions inside your car so you can concentrate on the road and your surroundings
•Broaden your scanning by looking for children left and right into yards and front porches.
Parents
•Ensure an adult or older, responsible youth is available to supervise children under age 12.
•Plan and discuss the route your trick-or-treaters will follow.
•Instruct children to travel only in familiar areas and along established routes.
•Teach children to stop only at well-lit houses and to never to enter a stranger’s home or garage.
•Establish a time for children to return home.
•Tell children not to eat any treats until they get home.
•Review trick-or-treating safety precautions, including pedestrian and traffic safety rules.
•Make sure Halloween costumes are flame-retardant and visible with retro-reflective material.
Trick-or-Treaters
•Be bright at night – Carry a glow stick and wear retro-reflective tape on costumes and treat buckets to improve visibility to motorists and others.
•Wear disguises that don’t obstruct vision, and avoid facemasks. Instead, use nontoxic face paint.
•When selecting a costume, make sure it is the right size to prevent trips and falls.
•Ensure any props are flexible and blunt-tipped to avoid injury from tripping or horseplay.
•Walking Safety
Carry a flashlight containing fresh batteries, and place it face down in the treat bucket to free up one hand. Never shine it into the eyes of oncoming drivers.
•Stay on sidewalks and avoid walking in streets if possible.
•If there are no sidewalks, walk on the left side of the road, facing traffic.
•Look ALL ways and listen for traffic before crossing the street and keep looking as you cross.
•Cross streets only at the corner, using traffic signals and crosswalks. and never cross between parked vehicles or mid-block.
•Put electronic devices down and keep heads up and walk, don’t run, across the street.
•Teach children to make eye contact with drivers before crossing in front of them. (Remember STOP LOOK & WAVE)
•Always walk on sidewalks or paths. If there are no sidewalks, walk facing traffic as far to
the left as possible.
Children should walk on direct routes with the fewest street crossings.
•Watch for cars that are turning or backing up. Teach children to never dart out into the street or cross between parked cars.
•Tell your parents where you are going.
We thank you for your cooperation and wish everyone a Happy and Safe Halloween
Published time: October 26, 2013 15:45
Edited time: October 26, 2013 18:02
Hundreds are marching on the National Mall in Washington, DC to protest covert NSA surveillance operations on the anniversary of the Patriot Act. The organizers are planning to present Congress with a petition which has acquired over 570,000 signatures.
Stop Watching Us is a collective of 100 public advocacy groups, among them the American Civil Liberties Union, Freedom Works, as well as individuals like Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei and Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who worked with Edward Snowden to expose many of the NSA’s surveillance procedures. The rally is scheduled to begin at 11:30 am local time on October 26 – the 12th anniversary of the US Patriot Act.
MAYOR’S OFFICE HOURS FOR RIDGEWOOD RESIDENTS – Saturday, November 2nd
Mayor Paul Aronsohn holds office hours for Ridgewood residents the first Saturday of every month from 9:00 a.m. to Noon in the Council Chambers (Sydney V. Stoldt, Jr. Court Room) on the fourth floor of Ridgewood Village Hall. The next session is Saturday, November 2nd.
For an appointment to meet with the Mayor, please call the Village Clerk’s Office at 201-670-5500 ext. 206. You may come to the Mayor’s office hours without an appointment, but those with appointments will be given priority
YMCA Camp Bernie
Fri, November 01, 2013 – Sun, November 03, 2013
Camp Bernie, Port Murray NY, 327 Turkey Top Rd, Port Murray NY
Looking for a great family weekend getaway? Come to Camp Bernie in Port Murray, NY for the Amazing Race 2013!
Start the weekend sharpening your crucial race skills in activities such as orienteering, archery, fire building, and canoeing. Relax in the evenings with family themed activities like a critter show, night hike or campfires with s’mores. Then on Sunday, show your competitive side in an adventure quest around Camp Bernie to see who will take home the trophy.
CBR seeking to preserve Ridgewood’s ‘ineffable’ quality
Friday October 25, 2013, 9:36 AM
The Ridgewood News
CBR seeking to preserve Ridgewood’s ‘ineffable’ quality
Lori Weil
To the editor:
The Citizens for a Better Ridgewood (CBR) are long-term residents who genuinely care about the future of Ridgewood. It is disappointing that our attempt to inform the public about the serious nature of the issues facing Ridgewood has been characterized as “tactics intended to create hysteria.” Wanting to protect the unique reputation and outstanding quality of life in our village does not make us anti-development or anti-developer.
This issue has less to do with housing and more to do with the future of Ridgewood. We are looking at irrevocable changes that will permit a substantial number of high-density housing units, and we worry that if development is not thoughtful and prudent, Ridgewood will suffer the consequences of overcrowded schools, traffic congestion, parking shortages and most importantly, the lack of that ineffable feeling that makes Ridgewood so special.
Developers claim that new housing developments will provide the town with “beneficial solutions to downtown problems.” We truly hope that is the case, but we fail to see how adding more residents will improve traffic issues, pedestrian safety and parking. We are also concerned about overcrowding in our schools and hope that the Planning Board is able to put mechanisms in place to guarantee that new housing goes to empty-nesters or seniors, where there is a need.
Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Sarah Polley tells the moving portrait of her family–her many siblings, actor/writer father, and actress/mother–and a legacy of secrets and lies. As with many families, there are a multitude of stories that have been told through the years. Polley, the youngest child, mines this oral tradition in this groundbreaking film, seamlessly blending past and present, the real and the imagined. Polley’s characteristically unflinching yet compassionate gaze delivers an exceptional level of depth and emotion. As Polley says, “If I have learned anything from making this film, it is that we can’t all be right and we can’t all be wrong. So we must be unintentionally distorting things to varying degrees in order to feed our own version of what we need the past and history to be, and in our way, we must all be telling the truth as well.”
• No speaker
Friday, October 25 at 7:30 pm
THE INVISIBLE WAR
(2012/US; 90 mins., not rated)
Film website: https://invisiblewarmovie.com/index.php
Nominated for a 2013 Academy Award, this groundbreaking documentary investigates the the shameful and underreported epidemic of rape within the US military. With stark clarity and escalating revelations, the film exposes the rape epidemic in the armed forces, investigating the institutions that perpetuate it as well as its profound personal and social consequences. We meet characters who embraced their military service with pride and professionalism, only to have their idealism crushed. Focusing on the emotionally charged stories of survivors, the film reveals the systemic cover-up of the crimes against them and follows their struggles to rebuild their lives and fight for justice. The Invisible War features hard-hitting interviews with high-ranking military officers and members of Congress that reveal the perfect storm conditions that exist for rape in the military, its history of cover-up, and what can be done to bring about much needed change.
• Speaker: RET. BRIGADIER GENERAL LOREE SUTTON, MD
Friday, November 1 at 7:30 pm
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE
(2012/US; 120 mins., not rated)
Film website: https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/centralparkfive/
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were arrested and charged with brutally attacking and raping a white female jogger in Central Park. News media swarmed the case, calling them a “wolfpack.” The five would spend years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit before the truth about what really happened became clear. With The Central Park Five, this story of injustice finally gets the attention it deserves. Based on Sarah Burns’ riveting book and co-directed by her husband David McMahon and father, the acclaimed doc filmmaker Ken Burns, this incendiary film tells the riveting tale of innocent young men scapegoated for a heinous crime, and serves as a mirror for our times.
• Speaker:
SARAH BURNS
Producer/Director, The Central Park Five
Friday, November 15 at 7:30 PM
BLOOD BROTHER
(2012/US; 92 mins., not rated)
Film website: https://www.bloodbrotherfilm.com/
The unmistakable power of love is celebrated in this story of one man’s decision to move to India and restart his life among the dispossessed. “Rocky Anna,” as the children living at an orphanage for those infected with HIV know him, was dissatisfied with his life in America. Having grown up without a close-knit family of his own, he found his calling living and working with kids in need. Unlike others who simply passed through their lives, Rocky stayed, dedicating himself to their health and well-being. Despite formidable challenges, his playful spirit and determination in the face of despair proves to be an invaluable resource.
Director Steve Hoover ventured to India to chronicle his best friend ’s newfound life in this film that serves as a testament to one person’s ability to create a meaningful life.
• Speakers, live via Skype:
STEVE HOOVER, Director, Blood Brother
DANNY YOURD, Producer, Blood Brother
Friday, November 22 at 7:30 pm
BIG MEN
(2013/US; 99 mins., not rated)
Film website: https://bigmenthemovie.com/
In Ghana, a small American energy company fights to hold onto its discovery of oil just as a new government comes into power. In Nigeria, where oil has already been discovered, the ramifications of the oil industry have taken their toll on the people, most notably those in the Niger Delta who have seen none of the benefits of this new wealth. As the American company falls under the scrutiny of the new Ghanaian government and the U.S. Justice Department, the contracts for the oil field languish. Jobs are lost, power plays are made and all the while, the Ghanaian people wait to reap the benefits. In the Niger Delta, pipelines are attacked and set on fire as militants continue to demand more of the wealth from their government. With unprecedented access and an unflinching eye, Big Men takes us deep into the African oil industry in Ghana and Nigeria, delivering an exposé on the ambition, greed and corruption that threaten to exacerbate Africa’s resource curse and leave more of its citizens behind..
American Red Cross Lifeguard Training Starts November 5 at the YWCA Pre-test dates are October 26 and November 2 Ridgewood, NJ—October 21, 2013–YWCA Bergen County is offering its next American Red Cross Lifeguard Training course beginning November 5 and running through November 21, 2013. Students must take and pass a swim test, which will be held on October 26 at 9:30 a.m. or November 2 at 9:30 a.m. Participants must be 15 years of age or older and a $10 swim test fee is due at registration.
his course prepares students with the CPR, First Aid and lifeguard techniques necessary for employment as a professional lifeguard. Classes will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at 112 Oak Street in Ridgewood, and the course fee is $350. For more information or to register call the YWCA Aquatics Department at 201-444-5600, x327, or visit www.ywcabergencounty.org.
Readers say Parking in the street is a problem for Fall leaf collection
Parking in the street is a problem. Empty streets are needed for garbage, recycling, bulk, and yard waste collection, as well as leaf and snow removal, plus the occasional cleaning of gutters. The problem seems to be multi-car households where there isn’t enough driveway space. I also see walkways blocked because of parked cars in driveways that can’t get all the way in.
the police should be driving the rout that the leaf crews will be picking up the next day. the police know what roads the crew will be in the next few days, it’s all on the map. this year is very bad. no ever parked on the street in front of my home on hillcrest. at 2am to 5am the police have the time. even in the c b d I see cars parked in the road at 4am when I go to work.
There are cars all over the place overnight, I see it when I walk my dog early in the AM. They have definitely been out all night because they have the overnight condensation on the windows. It looks horrible, the streets look cluttered. It is all because some people are too lazy to put two cars in the driveway and have to back one out in the morning to let another out. Give us a break. There used to be enforcement of this law and I wish they would get back to it. As always those of us who follow the law are inconvenienced and those who do not follow the law are not penalized.
In one of your famous #Obamacare speeches you stated, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”
Well, as evidenced by the below letter, which my wife and I just received, you lied. We did “like our plan” and were informed in this letter that our plan will no longer exist and we will be forced to purchase a new plan, from a website which doesn’t work, for a higher monthly premium, for services we don’t want.
Now, I know I am not one of your connected cronies and insiders, who were all given waivers from this disastrous piece of legislation. I was just one of the Secret Service agents who put my ass on the line for you every day, but I was still praying that given our middle-class existence, operating a small-business, that your “fundamental transformation” of America would have stayed out of our home. Apparently that is not the case as my public battle against your disastrous presidency has just become personal.
‘Duck Dynasty’ Star: ‘It Ain’t Gun Control We Need, It’s Sin Control’
October 21, 2013 11:48 AM
WEST MONROE, La. (CBS Houston) — One “Duck Dynasty” star made his stance on gun control known in an interview with Men’s Journal.
“It ain’t gun control we need, it’s sin control,” Si Robertson said.
In a wide-ranging interview with Men’s Journal, the man known as Uncle Si described how he used to be a “sinner” during his younger days when he was drafted into the Army and heading off to Vietnam.
“I kept a fifth of whiskey in my pocket everywhere I went,” he said. “I tried dope one time, okay, like marijuana, but why would you smoke something that makes you feel 100 years old? So, drugs wasn’t it for me. In my mind, it was alcohol and whoring around.”
Robertson said he was worried about the pedestal the family has been put on since the reality show took off.
“Toilet Tax” rejected in Ridgewood
Monday October 21, 2013, 12:17 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The Ridgewood Council rejected an ordinance that would have increased sewage fees for significant dischargers, welcome news to many restaurant owners in the Central Business District (CBD) who previously resisted the proposal.
“The sewer fees will not increase this year, but there will be further discussion of what will be done going forward,” Mayor Paul Aronsohn announced prior to the council’s unanimous vote to defeat the ordinance calling for the fee hike.
Considered by the village’s governing body in the latter portion of the summer, the proposed ordinance and its public hearing were continued from month to month until Ridgewood officials could discuss the increases with Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce leaders. Some downtown business owners, meanwhile, spoke publicly during council meetings and suggested the fees unfairly targeted CBD establishments.
“You have a handful of significant dischargers, people who utilize the system, and then you have thousands of other customers who utilize it far more,” said Paul Vagianos, whose East Ridgewood Avenue restaurant is billed an excessive discharge fee. “Those other customers aren’t charged. Only a handful of businesses and non-profits [are charged], most of them are small businesses and mom-and-pop operations.”
Stage Fright: An Original Halloween Musical
Sat, October 26, 2013
Time: 1:30 PM
Porch Light Productions, 555 Broad Street, Glen Rock
Stage Fright, nominated in 2010 for Best Original Musical by the New Jersey Association of Community Theatres, is a charming comedy about a naive group of trick-or-treaters that come upon the house of a witch and her gang of monsters on Halloween night. After being kidnapped by the wicked Old Lady Fargus and her evil cronies – the Vampire, Medusa, Mummy, Headless Horseman, Werewolf, Igor, Frankenstein and some landscaping zombies – the teens attempt to win over the monsters in the hopes of saving themselves and their friends from a twisted fate!
