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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Brookdale Avenue Elementary School had its holiday concert on December 14. That’s music teacher Judy Szybist leading the school’s fourth grade class above and Santa–er, Principal Richard Rampolla– singing with the first grade below.
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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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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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A holiday season brings with it lots of holiday music and given the number of musicians in Verona, there are plenty of opportunities to hear good music close to home at a very reasonable price. Here’s who’s performing where, day by day. Sunday, December 11: Four Verona youths–Patrick Citrano, Maura Cuddihy, Michael Hardenberg and...
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Verona-based flutist Laurel Brolly plays with the Montclair Community Band, and she would like you to know that the band is holding a free holiday concert on Sunday, December 4. The concert is at 3 p.m. at the Montclair High School auditorium. The Montclair Community Band will also be performing for the holiday tree...
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If you like drums, you’re going to want to be at Congregation Beth Ahm this Sunday evening. The synagogue is bringing in the Soh Daiko Drummers from New York City for a concert that begins at 7 p.m. Beth Ahm says the concert, which is co-sponsored by the Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled’s...
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We have a message to pass along from Brian Michalowski, one of H.B. Whitehorne’s music teachers: The delivery of desserts sold by the fifth and eighth graders for the HBW Music Fundraiser has been rescheduled from Tuesday to Friday. Parents will be able to pick up cheesecakes at 2:45 p.m. “The sixth and eighth...
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If you were at Cops & Rockers, the teen band show at Verona High School this past winter, you probably saw Gerard Dinola and Verona police office Dan Greco on stage with the cops band. It turns out that the two, both VHS grads, and a third alumni, Jeff Davidson, have a Stone Temple Pilots...
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The Verona Marching Maroon and White drum line had the honor of leading the largest drum line in U.S. Scholastic Band Association history on Saturday night at the Somerville High School Pioneer Marching Band Festival. Eighteen bands participated in the competition from New Jersey and Connecticut. Verona Marching Maroon and White tied for first...
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