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Residents fighting plan to place antenna on top of Ridgewood church

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Residents fighting plan to place antenna on top of Ridgewood church

NOVEMBER 24, 2014    LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014, 12:18 AM
BY JODI WEINBERGER
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

About a dozen residents who live near the West Side Presbyterian Church are opposing a plan by Verizon Wireless to put a 3-foot cell antenna on the top of the cross, saying at a zoning board meeting Nov. 11 that it would change the character of the neighborhood.

The telecommunications company is asking for a use and height variance from the Zoning Board of Adjustment to build what they’re calling a “micro site” antenna at the location, 6 S. Monroe St., to help alleviate a significant gap in coverage.

The antenna, which is not permitted in a residential zone, would bring the total building height to 68.5 feet where 30 feet is permitted by law. Currently the building stands at 65.5 feet when measured to the top of the cross.

Initial plans from Verizon showed the building height with the antenna at 83 feet, which Verizon attorney Warren Stilwell said was caused by an error in measuring that has been fixed.

Because of the new, lower building height, radio frequency engineer Glenn Pierson said about 10 fewer houses would receive coverage from the previous estimate of a 700-home coverage area north of West Ridgewood Avenue on North Monroe Street, Beachwood Road, Monte Vista Avenue, Sheridan Terrace and other roadways. The coverage would not reach West Glen Avenue.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/group-fighting-plan-for-antenna-1.1140373

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Parlance Chamber Concerts brings world-class musicians to Ridgewood

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Parlance Chamber Concerts brings world-class musicians to Ridgewood

October 3, 2014    Last updated: Friday, October 3, 2014, 12:31 AM
The Ridgewood News

Editor’s Note – Michael Parloff, former longtime first flute at the Metropolitan Opera House, will open his very popular Parlance Chamber Concert Season this Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. at West Side Presbyterian Church. Here he offers us some background on the music and the musicians.

The concert will feature an extraordinary international ensemble. I am delighted to introduce the Minnesota Orchestra’s celebrated concertmaster, violinist Erin Keefe, and esteemed music director, Finnish clarinetist Osmo Vanska, to our audience. They will be joined by the Swiss-born pianist Gilles Vonsattel, the fiery French violinist Arnaud Sussman, the elegant violist Hsin-Yun Huang, and the Metropolitan Opera’s dashing principal cellist Rafael Figueroa.

These six remarkable artists will collaborate on three of the most beloved masterpieces of the chamber repertoire, Mozart’s E-minor violin sonata, Bartók’s Contrasts for clarinet, violin, and piano, and Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/music/parlance-chamber-concerts-opens-season-1.1101707#sthash.H7ljVyVA.dpuf

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West Side longtime minister of music retires

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From left: Lisa Stitt, Jim Batura, Joanne Rodland and Neva D. Strom.At Sunday worship on June 1, in honor of Joanne Rodland’s retirement after 45 years at West Side, 140 current and past members of the Chancel and Senior High Choirs raised their voices in song. 

West Side longtime minister of music retires

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2014, 12:31 AM
BY BETSY MURPHY
CORRESPONDENT

It has been a rich and rewarding 45 years.” said Joanne Rodland, who retired as minister of music at West Side Presbyterian Church at the end of July.

“It was a privilege being a part of two such partnerships, Jack and then Debbi, as well as having such a pool of talent and commitment with which to work within the church and most certainly within the community. It has been a gift.”

Her partnership with Jack Rodland, whom she met at Union Theological Seminary, began in 1964.

“He was smart, dedicated, compassionate,” she says.

They worked together at First Presbyterian Church in Rutherford, hired by Melvin Campbell, who claimed “we got two for price of one.” Joanne taught the children’s choir, Jack the adults, before coming to West Side in 1968, with daughters, Cathy, 3, and Carol (Caby), 6 months. West Side let Cathy into nursery school that September, while Joanne brought Carol to church with her. “Jack and I made the decision that this was our family.”

Jack went back to seminary at Union Theological and in 1980 was ordained at West Side becoming associate pastor. During that year, Joanne took on a lot of responsibility, lost both her mother and brother, and also attended Westchester Institution for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and became a therapist.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/music/west-side-s-longtime-minister-of-music-retires-1.1086446#sthash.usU0076K.dpuf

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West Side Presbyterian Church

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West Side Presbyterian Church

Come join our only Sunday morning adult group meeting: Everyday Spirituality at Rm 308.

Now reading Brian McLaren’s book Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed Cross the Road? This is led by Mark Babunovic.

West Side Presbyterian
6 S Monroe St
Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450

(201) 652-1966
https://www.westside.org

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New Jersey Choral Society : An Austrian Affair , 2013–14 season finale !

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New Jersey Choral Society : An Austrian Affair , 2013–14 season finale !

The 2013–14 season finale promises to be a glorious evening of music,
presented in the classical NJCS style.

In just under two weeks, the New Jersey Choral Society will wrap up its 2013-2014 season with an amazing performance of the greats – Mozart, Bruckner, Mahler, Haydn, Schubert, and Beethoven. Join us for this concert at the incomparable West Side Presbyterian Church in beautiful Ridgewood, NJ. Make a night of it! Diner and a show. Nothing would be better for the last day of May.

Don’t have your tickets yet??? Visit www.njcs.org for all the details of what is shaping up to be a performance no one will soon forget.

Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 8pm
West Side Presbyterian Church
6 South Monroe Street, Ridgewood, NJ
click here for directions

Eric Dale Knapp, conductor
Linda Sweetman-Waters, organ
Megan Knapp, soprano
Teresa Buchholz, mezzo-soprano
Wesley Morgan, tenor
Mathew Edwardsen, tenor
Keith Harris, baritone

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Ridgewood Concert Band Season Finale: “Celebrate New Jersey”

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Ridgewood Concert Band Season Finale: “Celebrate New Jersey”

Friday, May 9th
8:00pm

7:30 Prelude Performance
the Midland Park High School Concert Band

West Side Presbyterian Church
Ridgewood, New Jersey

Featured Guest Soloists:

Alan Baer, Principal Tuba New York Philharmonic

Emmett Rapaport, Saxophone
Ridgewood High School Senior and Winner of the 2013 – 2014 Youth Soloist Competition

Also presenting the Sixth Annual Side-by-Side Concert with the finest High School musicians from the area

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Alan Baer joined the New York Philharmonic on June 21, 2004, as Principal Tuba. He was formerly principal tuba with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. His other performing credits include recordings with The Cleveland Orchestra led by Vladimir Ashkenazy, performances with the Peninsula Music Festival of Wisconsin, New Orleans Symphony, Los Angeles Concert Orchestra, Ojai Festival Orchestra (California), Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed as a featured soloist, touring several countries in Europe, including Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and France.

Mr. Baer began his undergraduate work at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Dr. Gary Bird. He completed his bachelor of music degree with Ronald Bishop at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and has done graduate work at the University of Southern California, Cleveland Institute of Music, and California State University, Long Beach, where he studied with Tommy Johnson. While in Long Beach, Mr. Baer taught at California State University, where he also directed the university tuba ensemble and the brass choir. In Milwaukee, Mr. Baer was adjunct professor of tuba and euphonium at the University of Wisconsin and director of the Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble

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New Jersey Choral Society presents stunning finale “An Austrian Affair”

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New Jersey Choral Society presents stunning finale “An Austrian Affair”        

Bergen County – Join the New Jersey Choral Society as they present their stunning 2013-14 season finale, “An Austrian Affair,” featuring works by 18th and 19th century composers who worked in Vienna, on Saturday, May 31 at 8:00 pm at the West Side Presbyterian Church, 6 South Monroe St., Ridgewood.

The inspirational program of sacred and secular music features Mozart’s “Laudate Dominum” from Solemn Vespers, Haydn’s powerful “The Heavens Are Telling” from The Creation, “Hallelujah” from Beethoven’s oratorio The Mount of Olives, and Schubert’s stirring final composition “Mass No. 6 in E-flat major” The concert will conclude with Gustav Mahler’s uplifting “Finale to Symphony No. 2” (Resurrection).   Guest soloists Megan Knapp (soprano), Teresa Buchholz (mezzo-soprano), Wesley Morgan (tenor), Mathew Edwardsen (tenor) and Keith Harris (baritone) will be featured with NJCS.

Established in 1980, the New Jersey Choral Society is one of the state’s most prestigious choral groups well-known for presenting outstanding and unique programs. Under the direction of Eric Dale Knapp, NJCS performs three major concerts annually in Bergen and Essex counties. They have performed in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, China, Australia and England. In July 2014, they will perform in France as part of the Normandy Festival commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Normandy invasion. The chorus will be accompanied by pianist/organist Linda Sweetman-Waters.

Come one hour prior to concert time for The Inside Line, a complimentary lecture that provides an insightful and intimate discussion of the music for all ticket holders.
Tickets are $25.00 for general admission, $22.00 for students, seniors, and patrons with disabilities and $12 for children 12 and under (add $5.00 at the door). Group discounts are also available. For reservations or more information, visit www.njcs.org or call the New Jersey Choral Society at (201) 379-7719.In support of the Center for Food Action, the New Jersey Choral Society will be collecting nonperishable food items at this concert. Westside Presbyterian Church is wheelchair accessible. Funding has been made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Michael Parloff’s Parlance Chamber Concerts

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Michael Parloff’s Parlance Chamber Concerts

Music stars to appear in Ridgewood

APRIL 25, 2014    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014, 12:31 AM
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Editor’s Note – Michael Parloff’s Parlance Chamber Concerts’ final event of the 2013-2014 season will take place this coming Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. at West Side Presbyterian Church. The concert will feature 10 artists from the Metropolitan Opera, including the celebrated mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe and co-reciter Raymond Menard, pianist Warren Jones, and seven principal players from the Met Orchestra. Here Michael Parloff gives us a behind-scenes look.

Raymond Menard

RN: Can you give us an overview of what we can expect on Sunday?

Stephanie Blythe

MP: I’ve been looking forward all season to this fun, unusual concert. The featured work of the afternoon will be William Walton’s 1923 “Façade Entertainments,” a gem of musical humor. Inspired by the sophisticated, often subversive poetry of his friend and patroness, Edith Sitwell, Façade brought overnight success to Walton, as well as a reputation as the enfant terrible of modern English music.

The program will also include four Roaring Twenties instrumental solos inspired by the sounds of the Jazz Age.

RN: Please tell us more about Sunday afternoon’s performers.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/music/stars-to-close-parlance-chamber-concerts-season-1.1002993#sthash.fS2maDOz.dpuf

Parlance Chamber Concerts
Featuring 1920 instrumental solos inspired by Jazz Age
April 27 at 4PM at West Side Presbyterian Church, 6 South MOnroes Street, Ridgewood. Tickets available at the door: Adults $40; Seniors $30; Young Adults $30; Students $30. www.ParlanceChamberConcerts.org

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Ridgewood Concert Band March Winds

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March Winds
Friday, March 21, 2014
8:00 PM
West Side Presbyterian Church
Ridgewood, New Jersey

Meet The Soloist: Richard Summers

Richard Summers is a music educator, performer, arranger, conductor, and composer. He grew up in Wheeling WV, became interested in a musical career, and attended the University of Kentucky for two years under a full scholarship. He moved to the NY/NJ area when he was accepted as a clarinetist and saxophonist of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point from 1972-1975. Following his military career, he attended Juilliard, where he received his BM and MM degrees in music performance on clarinet under Leon Russianoff and Joseph Allard.

Newly retired from NJ public schools, Mr. Summers taught instrumental music for 32 years in Kinnelon and Pequannock, NJ and served as adjunct professor for concert band, clarinet, and woodwinds at William Paterson University, where he established the Summer Honors Band.

As a performer on clarinet, saxophone, and other woodwind instruments, Mr. Summers has performed as a member of the New Jersey Pops Orchestra, The Orchestra at William Paterson, The New Music Ensemble, The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, North Jersey Philharmonic, and has been principal clarinetist, soloist, assistant conductor, personnel manager, and arranger with the Ridgewood Concert Band for over 25 years. Throughout his career, he has been a featured performer both locally and internationally, playing solo works across the US and Europe.

Mr. Summers has recently arranged and composed music that has been published for Bandworks Publications, and Carl Fisher Publications, and is hoping to write and publish more music in the future. Mr. Summers resides in West Milford, NJ and has a musical family of his own. His wife Karen and his son Stephen are also clarinetists and perform together in area music ensembles like the Ridgewood Concert Band.