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“Hope is the thing with feathers… that perches in the soul… and sings the tune without the words… and never stops at all.” These are the striking words of one of the greatest American poets, Emily Dickinson, in “Hope Is The Thing With Feathers.”
Although this Amherst, Massachusetts native spent most of her time doing household chores and secluded herself in her home since her mid20s, over 1700 poems were discovered after Dickinson succumbed to Bright’s Disease in Cambridge, Massachusetts 1886.
She had attended Amherst Academy and
Holyoke Female Seminary, but withdrew from her studies at the seminary after one year when she became sick.
When she sent a small compilation of her poetry to an acquaintance, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the poems were rejected. However, it is reported that only six or seven of her pieces were published before her death. The very first volume of her work was published in 1890.
Deeply influenced by the poetry of Walt Whitman and John Keats, Dickinson’s poetry revolved around the themes of death, loneliness and need.
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VISITING ARTIST... Painter Edward Adams recently attended an opening reception at Parness Gallery in Westfield featuring his artwork which will appear until Sunday, July 18. He is joined by the proprietor of the gallery, Robin Parness. To schedule a viewing of Mr. Adams’ work, please call (908) 2336118.
ON WITH THE SHOW… Kathy Czap, left, of Westfield and Keri Wanner of Scotch Plains will compete in a drum and bugle corps event in Clifton later this month.
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CLIFTON — Kathy Czap of Westfield and Keri Wanner of Scotch Plains will don their musical and color guard skills during a competition slated for Saturday, July 31, in Clifton.
The second annual Fleet Bank Garden State Open, a Drum Corps International Division II/ III Regional Drum and Bugle Corps Championship, will be held at Clifton School Stadium.
The competition will begin at 10 a. m. where each of the corps will be vying for a spot in the evening show. The top five corps in each of two divisions will qualify to compete in the evening’s championship event, which begins at 6 p. m.
The Clifton competition is the first anchor show of a threeweek drum and bugle corps tour across North America en route to the World Championships in Madison, Wisconsin. Corps from as far away as Texas,
Florida and Canada will be featured at the Clifton competition, along with some of the brightest new talents along the East Coast.
Kathy and Keri will compete as members of the Lodibased Raiders Drum & Bugle Corps and Stardust Winter Guards, a nonprofit youth program “which focuses on teaching young adults music, discipline and excellence, both on and off the field,” according to Randy Leffler, a spokesman for the group.
Kathy, a Westfield High School student where she marches in the band, is a veteran member of the Raiders’ color guard. She also competes in the winter months with the Stardust Winter Guard.
Keri, in her first year with the Raiders, will perform in the color guard flag competition. She is a student at Roselle Catholic High School.
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WESTFIELD – Jeff and Laura Muller of the New Jersey Ghost Hunters Society (NJGHS) will be filmed as part of a segment for a pilot episode of a show entitled, “Way Out There,” on Saturday, July 10.
The production company, American Ingenuity of Washington, D. C., will shoot footage of the ghost hunters as they investigate the haunting of Mead Hall on Drew University’s campus in Madison.
The Mullers have been ghost hunting since 1993. Their paranormal investigations have brought them to college dormitories, private homes and historical sites. Their Web site features pictures of phenomena caught on film and may be accessed at www. erols. com/ zensible1.
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Culinary Chef David Martone will host the event. The cost is $65 at the door.
For more information, please call The Marriage Connection at (908) 2328827. training those interested in becoming
paranormal investigators. The next meeting of the NJGHS will be held on Friday, July 16, from 7: 30 to 9 p. m. at the Municipal Building in Westfield.
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WESTFIELD – Craig Long, a 1998 graduate of Westfield High School, recently completed his freshman year at Syracuse University in the Visual and Performing Arts School.
A selection of his work has been chosen to be exhibited during the summer at the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery at the university.
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WESTFIELD – The second annual summer concert by The Music Studio Wind Ensemble, directed by Howard Toplansky, and The Music Studio Jazz Band, directed by Dr. Theodore K. Schlosberg, will be held on Wednesday, July 14, at 8 p. m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Westfield. The concert will be airconditioned.
The ensemble will perform a variety of selections ranging from classical, modern and popular music. Selections will also include music
from the 1940s through the 1980s with swing, rock, Latin, blues, pop and Broadway tunes.
Door prizes will be provided at the end of the program.
The ensemble rehearses at the Westfield Y every Saturday. The band rehearses at the New Jersey Workshop for the Arts (NJWA) on East Broad Street in Westfield. New members are welcome to join.
The concert is sponsored by The Leader Store, Periwinkles, Ferraro’s Restaurant, J& M Market in Mountainside, B. Kubick, Opticians, Inc., Snacks & Such, Fleet Bank, The Windmill, The Town Book Store, Classic Thyme, Lancaster’s Ltd., K& S Music, Baron’s Family Pharmacy, the Rialto Theatre and Theresa’s Restaurant.
The Mission of the NJWA “is to enrich lives by providing opportunities to develop creative talents and encourage a greater appreciation of the arts through both instruction and performance.”
The Music Studio is a division of NJWA, a nonprofit organization established in 1972. Other divisions include: The Westfield Summer Workshop, Kids ‘n’ Arts, Tots ‘n’ Arts, The Fencing Club, The Summer Band and Orchestra, The Drawing Workshop and The Westfield Art Gallery.
For more information, please call (908) 7899696.
By MICHELLE H. LePOIDEVIN
Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times
NEWARK – The Westfield Young Artists’ Cooperative Theatre, Inc. (WYACT) will feature a 75member
ensemble and orchestra of young adults from around the state in its upcoming July productions of Lionel Bart’s adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic, Oliver!, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera at The Arts Incubator Festival at Kean University.
Fortyfive actors and actresses and 25 young orchestra musicians were handpicked after statewide auditions which were held in early spring.
In the summer of 1998, a WYACT cast of 56 actors and an orchestra of 26 members delivered seven soldout performances of Carousel at the NJPAC. Oliver! marks the second production between WYACT and NJPAC’s Summer Youth Performance Workshop.
The Threepenny Opera and Oliver!
involve characters who are searching for love and acceptance in a cruel world.
Dickens had focused his story of
Oliver Twist on the hardness, poverty and strife in Victorian England. Brecht also aimed to express the trials of society in Germany in 1926.
Oliver! will be held on Fridays and Saturdays, July 16, 17, 23 and 24, at 7: 30 p. m. and Wednesday and Thursday, July 21 and 22, at 12: 30 p. m. and Sundays, July 18 and 25, at 2: 30 p. m. All performances will be held at the NJPAC Victoria Theater. Tickets are $16 for adults and $8 for children under 14.
To purchase tickets, please contact 1888GONJPAC.
The Threepenny Opera will be held on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, July 30, 31, August 1, 6 and 7, at 7: 30 p. m. at The MurphyDunn Theatre in the Vaughn Eames Building at Kean University. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for
students. They may be purchased at The Music Staff on Quimby Street in Westfield or by calling (908) 2333200.
Local residents, Anne Brummell, Nave Hurtt, Matteo Guasconi, Colleen Kirk, Darren Levy, Kristina Lucarelli, Leanne Meriton, Katie Rae Mulvey, Jessica Orleanski, Betsy Paynter and Lindsay Sinclair, all of Westfield; Adam Binerb and Manuel Gonzalez of Scotch Plains and Kassy Ciasulli and Sarah Piscitelli of Mountainside will all take the stage in Oliver!
Other cast members include Ryu Cipris of Millburn, Christian Doll of
Millington, Amanda Maxfield of Berkeley Heights, Rich McNanna of Springfield and Keyon Richardson of Rahway.
The Threepenny Opera stage will feature Westfield residents Margaret Brautigam, Kate Cuca, Shana Golembo, Julianne Mandrillo, Ginny Paynter and Meghan Steinbrecher.
The ensemble also includes Manuel Gonzalez, Rich McNanna and Amy Rolls of Linden.
Cynthia Meryl, the founder of WYACT, stated that she is proud of the networking and collaboration that occurs during the festival. She has called The Threepenny Opera a “tongueincheek” type of production which is “very dark” and pokes fun at the bourgeoisie.
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JAZZ PERFORMANCES IN DOWNTOWN WESTFIELD TUESDAY, JULY 13 & 20
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The Music Studio is a division of New Jersey Workshop for the Arts, Inc. established 1972.
150-152 E. Broad Street, Westfield. For more information call 908-789-9696
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