The Caldwell College Children’s Choir is holding open auditions for all students with unchanged voices between the ages of 8 and 14 on Thursday January 12, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. The Caldwell Children’s Choir is comprised of children in grades 3 through 8. Participants will learn to read and appreciate music using excellent...
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If you want to strut your stuff at the 2012 Verona Talent Night, you only have until January 5 to get your application in. Talent night, which is put on by the Spotlight Players Parents Association, is open to both kids and adults, and a wide range of talent, from singing to dancing and...
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Lego fans and fanatics, you have until February 20 to get over to Morristown for one of the most unusual Lego exhibits you will likely ever see. The Morris Museum has created a showing of more than 25 pieces by Nathan Sawaya, an artist who creates statues and portraits from, you guessed it, Legos....
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On Wednesday, December 22, the Verona High School Music Department performed its holiday concert. The Concert Band, Percussion Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, Brass Ensemble, Jazz Band, Vocal Jazz Ensemble and the Concert Choir–some 150 of the 500 students at VHS–performed to a packed house, under the direction of Max Morden, Amanda Hamilton, Judy Szybist and...
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Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”: It’s got songs, it’s got love, it’s got a tribute to the armed forces and, in the production now playing at the Paper Mill Playhouse, an orchestra musician from Verona. Dennis Cianciosi is the other side of music in Verona. While we normally see a lot of rock and jazz,...
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We know you’ve all been waiting for it: The day that Santa rides around Verona on a fire truck, thanks to the Verona Fire Department. Well folks, it’s today, Sunday, December 18. According to the VFD’s elf spokesman, the fun will start around 11 a.m. with four Santas in different corners of town. When...
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In Verona, we are lucky to have an abundant source of clean, safe drinking water. But the quality of water in many states to our west has suffered since a natural gas drilling process was exempted from the Safe Water Drinking Act. Now some companies want to use that drilling process–known as “fracking”–in the...
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If you’ve brought your kids to Holly Denton’s Music Together classes, you know how much she loves music. And we love the fact that, this morning, she directed our attention to one of the best Christmas music videos we’ve seen this season. It’s a flash mob at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of...
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Laura Berman Fortgang has made several appearances in these pages as an author and life coach. Earlier this year, we wrote about a role she was taking on in a local production of “The Great American Trailer Park Musical”. Now all the many aspects of her career are coming together in a fundraiser for...
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Mount Saint Dominic Academy will hold its annual Christmas Concert on Tuesday, December 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Doris M. Byrne Performing Arts Center at 3 Ryerson Avenue in Caldwell. Entertainment will be provided by MSDA’s A Cappella Ensemble, Concert Choir, Dance Team, Drama Club, Forensics Team, and Hip Hop Team. The school is promising...
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