Archive for February, 2018

Lemongrass duo plays Sudamericana

February 26th, 2018
Sudamericana
music of Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos, Pixinguinha
traditional peruvian music
original works by Raul Abbad

performed by
Lemongrass Duo
Elizabeth Moulthrop: violin
Raul Abbad: 6 & 8 string guitars
March 9th at 7:30pm
Rutherford Congregational Church
251 Union Ave
Rutherford,NJ

$10_ adult
$8_ students  & seniors

Rescheduled to March 15: Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts presents Matthew Van Dongen

February 24th, 2018

Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts (WIPA) presents an evening of contemporary and original works for guitar by faculty member Matthew Van Dongen at the Salon Series on Thursday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. at 60 Locust Avenue in Berkeley Heights.

In addition to featuring works by 20th century Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo including Tiento antiguoUn tiempo fue Italica famosa, and Zarabanda lejana, the one-hour concert will include a Beyond the Notes Q&A with Van Dongen, covering topics from composing for the guitar today to how music theory enhances the understanding of music written for the guitar. Tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for seniors, and free for Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts students. Tickets are available online, at the door or by calling 908-790-0700.

Stanley Alexandrowicz in Lawrenceville, NJ

February 24th, 2018

Adath Israel Congregation
1958 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Sunday 4 March, 2018
4:00 to 6:00 PM
Admission to Event: $5.00
RSVP’s appreciated—please RSVP to Gale Cohen at 609-530-0087 0r gabike4@aol.com

Please join me for my upcoming concert of Baroque, Classical, and Romantic Masterworks presented at the OBOJC—Adath Israel Congregation 2018 cultural event discussing New York Times best-selling author Lauren Belfer’s wonderful book “After Fire!” 

Beginning with the masterful “Ouverture de la Grotte de Versailles (de Lully)” by Robert de Visee (court guitarist to Louis XIV), my program will feature masterworks by the 19th Century’s greatest composer-guitarists: Napoleon Coste (France), J. K. Mertz (Hungary), and Johann Dubez (Vienna), and include Felix Mendelssohn’s famous “Venetian Boat Song” from his collection of Songs without Words (Lieder ohne Worte)!

March Meeting

February 22nd, 2018

These pieces were played at the March 18 meeting in Hopewell Borough:

David Starbuck

  • Carolan’s Farewell — Turlough O’Carolan, arr. Allan Alexander
  • Down by the Sally Gardens — “”
  • The Two William Davis’s — “”

Robert Ey

  • The Boys of Blue Hill/Reedsdale Hornpipe — Trad., arr. Gordon Bok
  • Port Lennox — Rory Dhall O’Cathain, arr. Glenn Weiser
  • Give Me Your Hand — “”

 Gad Berger

  • Un Dia de Noviembre — Leo Brouwer
  • Air on a G String — J.S. Bach, arr. Per-Olov Kindgren
  • Hallelujah — Leonard Cohen, arr. Gad Berger
  • Prelude to Cello Suite — J.S. Bach
  • The Parting Glass — Trad., arr. John Mock

Gary Lee

  • Banks O’ Doon — Robert Burns, arr. Guy Bergeron
  • Muir Woods — Andrew York

Jeff Griesemer

  • Here, There, and Everywhere — Beatles, arr. Jeff Griesemer
  • Slieve Russell/Port Sgian — Trad, arr. Jeff Griesemer

 James Day

  • Night Music — Donald Crockett
  • Guiding the Minotaur — Donald Crockett
  • Roll Out — Paul Lansky

Memorial Service for George Schindler

February 15th, 2018

A memorial service for George E. Schindler, Jr. will be held on Saturday, February 24, at 5:00 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, 50 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, New Jersey.

George was a leader in our Society, organizing and hosting meetings in his homes in New Providence and, later, Montgomery. He was active over several decades. In addition to the usual repertoire, George was fond of playing arrangements of music from composers not traditionally associated with classical guitar, such as Jerome Kern, Victor Herbert, Henry Mancini, and George Gershwin.

Gad Berger will be representing the New Jersey Classical Guitar Society at the service, playing some of the music that George enjoyed and performed. Members are invited to attend.

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George E. Schindler Jr., a passionate hiker, backpacker, and environmentalist, died on February 9 in Princeton, N.J., at Acorn Glen Assisted Living. He was 94. The probable cause of death was pneumonia.

Mr. Schindler was born in 1923 in Carnegie, Pa., son of George E. Schindler Sr. and Stella Victoria Cox. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the tail end of World War II; his military specialty was meteorology. Before enlisting, he had patched together the resources to study chemical engineering at Carnegie Tech for two years; afterwards, thanks to his army training and the GI Bill, he pursued his undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina and then at the University of Chicago, from which institution he was awarded a B.S. in Meteorology. His interests having shifted to English literature, he earned his M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. During those early years, he taught himself to play the classical guitar. A lifelong lover of literature, Mr. Schindler was extremely well read, favoring the works of George Bernard Shaw and Charles Dickens. He himself wrote two unpublished novels.

He married Faith Sayre in 1946, and the couple had three daughters. The family lived for many years in New Providence, N.J. In his thirty-one years with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Mr. Schindler edited a technical journal at the Bell Labs facility in Murray Hill, N.J., during the glory years of that company. In the four years preceding his retirement, he was department head in charge of a multivolume history project as well as of the Bell Laboratory archives.

George Schindler was never happier than when outdoors, whether camping, backpacking, or canoeing. He mapped trails and led hikes all over the country. His love of hiking grew into a deep commitment to preserving the natural landscape. He was instrumental in blocking a proposed dam at Tocks Island on the Delaware River, a dam that would have destroyed the nearby lake known as Sunfish Pond as well as spoiling the beauty of the Delaware’s free flow. As forestry coordinator for the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club and member of the board of directors of the NJ Audubon Society, his efforts contributed to the passage of the New Jersey Natural Areas Systems Act in 1975. Among the many other environmental causes for which he fought tirelessly were the preservation of the Pine Barrens and the protection of the Great Swamp from the incursion of a proposed jetport.

Well into his retirement, he made three trips to Alaska. He volunteered at the Lyons VA Hospital where his father spent the last few years of his life. Mr. Schindler’s wife died in 1999. He had been her loving caregiver during her long illness. He leaves his sister, Judy Reams of Walnut Creek, Calif.; his sister-in-law, Jeri Schindler of Klamath Falls, Ore.; his three daughters, Karen Baart of Brookline, Mass., Heather Lovett of Hopewell, N.J., and Sarah Schindler of New York, N.Y.; his two grandsons, Frank Lovett and Nathaniel Lovett; and two great-grandchildren. His younger brother, John Robert Schindler, died in 2009.

In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club (www.sierraclub.org/new-jersey) or the Environmental Defense Fund (www.edf.org).