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NOFA NJ’s 34th Annual Winter Conference

he Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey, or NOFA NJ, hosts its 34th annual winter conference under the theme “Connecting Communities of Practice” on Saturday, January 27, at Rutgers University’s Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, in New Brunswick from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. According to NOFA NJ’s website, nofanj.org, the Lambertvillebased organization “has supported and advocated for organic farming and local food systems in the Garden State since 1985.” Its winter conference, though, “is not just for farmers and gardeners.” “Our community and audience also includes students, educators, ag industry professionals, chefs, conservationists, foodies, brewers, and more. This year, we aim to galvanize our community in a time when cooperation is needed most, focusing on local connections and collaboration that carries on into the growing season,” the page continues. The “premier organic food and agricultural event” promises more than 30 workshops on farming, homesteading, food systems, and more; an exhibitor hall featuring both agricultural industry professionals and affiliated organizations; film screenings, book signings, and networking opportunities; a post-conference social hour with a live band, open mic, and refreshments; and two local, organic meals — breakfast and lunch — included with registration. Admission for NOFA NJ members is $100 per person, while tickets for the general public are $125 each. To register online, see the page for the event on the NOFA NJ website, nofanj.org/wc24. Attendees must also register their vehicles prior to the event if they plan to park in either Lot 70 or the Douglass Parking Deck. For questions or more information, email NOFA NJ at nofainfo@nofanj.org. The keynote speaker for NOFA NJ’s conference is Dr. William Brinton, the founder of Woods End Soil Laboratories, who is best known for developing the Solvita soil health test. According to the Woods End website, his 1994 invention “was developed to simplify respiration testing, making soil respiration more cost-effective for commercial soil labs.” Brinton is now active through his nonprofit research institute, the WB Foundation, Inc., which is currently “exploring issues of carbon cycling in farming.” His upcoming address at NOFA NJ is titled “Sunlight into Organics: Tracing the Search for Authentic Food Production.” The following conference speakers listed on the NOFA NJ

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website, nofanj. org/34wcpresenters, are locally based: James Klett, together with his brother Alex, owns Fairgrown Farm in Pennington. According to his biography, Klett “began farming at age 17 with no familial history.” He graduated from Rutgers Business School, founded the farm, and eventually pioneered what is described as “the new ‘collaborative farm share’ model.” This practice entails forming partnerships “with other local farmers to offer a diversity of fresh crops,” according to its website, fairgrownfarm.com, where people can access greater variety on a weekly basis while purchasing produce at the best price points and portions for their needs. His workshop is titled “Winter Work: Planning, Improving, and Selling in the Off-Season.” Tomia MacQueen is the owner of Wildflower Farm in Pennington, which “sustainably produces organically and ethically raised pastured and free-range poultry, lamb, [and] vegetables with a truly unique focus on humane animal husbandry policies and conservation practices.” As an educator, farmer, and Master Gardener who specializes in edible gardens, MacQueen is also a board member of NOFA NJ and the Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space. She is currently the food systems literacy coordinator for Princeton Public Schools’ oneyear pilot program, which began in April 2023 in collaboration with the Princeton School Gardens Cooperative to teach students how to utilize the district’s food, water, and land systems. Her two workshops are “Predator Control for Homesteads & Livestock Operations” and “Small Plot Intensive & Accessible Gardening.” Ayesha Dolasa and Jacob Tulius are the husband-and-wife team behind Noble Mushrooms, where since 2017, the couple has sold “fresh organic mushrooms at farmers markets, direct to customers from the farm and to wholesale accounts.” Two years later, the Hillsborough site “expanded from only producing fresh mushrooms into also providing mycological laboratory services,” including work such as studying “the isolation of mushroom mycelium from contaminants starting from tissue and spores, the expansion of the mycelium into spawn, and the inoculation of bulk substrate which is then sold to other mushroom farmers.” Their workshop is titled “Using Fungi to Connect NJ Farmers.” Documentary filmmaker Jared Flesher and Hopewell farmer Charlize Katzenbach team up for “Maple Syrup and a Movie,” a film screening of Flesher’s 2023 title “Sugar House Yantra,” about Katzenbach’s 35 years of tapping maple trees on her Sweet Sourland Farm. Flesher is the founder and creative director of Hundred Year Films, a video production company focused on environmental and conservation subjects in Central Jersey. His works include “Sourlands” (2012) about the Sourland Mountain region and “Pine Mud” (2021) about the Pinelands National Reserve, the latter of which won a 2022 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award. According to his biography, Flesher, who earned the title of “New Jersey’s leading environmental documentarian” from the

New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists, was an editor at Edible Jersey magazine before he became a cinematographer. He is also a communications specialist with the Office of Sustainability at Princeton University. Katzenbach, described as “New Jersey’s most knowledgeable maple syrup farmer,” co-owns Sweet Sourland Farm with her wife, Bru. Sweet Sourland sells “forest farm products including maple syrup, honey, goats, sheep,” and even lumber milled onsite. Dr. Joseph Heckman is a Rutgers professor of soil science, an extension specialist in soil fertility, and the owner of Neshanic Pastures in Ringoes. His workshop is titled “Renewable Soil Fertility from Non-Commercial Nutrient Sources.” Kristin Broderick, a licensed marriage and family therapist, is also the founder and director of wellbeing initiatives for the SHINE program at Dunwald Farm in Hopewell, described as a collective of “on-farm specialists passionate about nature and mental health.” Her workshop is titled “Redefining Mental Health: The Role of Farms and Nature-Based Approaches.” Dr. Xenia K. Morin is a plant biochemist, the undergraduate program director for Rutgers University’s agriculture and food systems program, and an associate teaching professor in the plant biology department. She previously worked at Princeton University as a writing and environmental studies’ lecturer. Her workshop is a screening of the documentary “Fields of Devotion,” followed by a panel discussion. Tess Stahl is the livestock and dairy extension specialist at Rutgers and an assistant professor in its department of animal sciences. She represents the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, or the NJAES Cooperative Extension, with a workshop titled “Small Ruminant Nutrition for Grazers.” Reuwai Hanewald is the daughter of Pam and Gary Mount, the owners of Terhune Orchards in Lawrence. She is an 11th-generation farmer who runs the family business with her parents and sister, Tannwen Mount. Hanewald graduated from Princeton University, where she studied ecology, evolutionary biology, and environmental science. Hanewald hosts a workshop with Kristian Holmstrom, a member of the Rutgers NJAES Vegetable Working Group whose work focuses on both integrated pest management, or IPM, as well as pest mapping, called “IPM Programs for Diversified & Organic Farms.” Lastly, Jess Niederer is the owner of Chickadee Creek Farm in Pennington, who, alongside Meredith Melendez, an Agriculture & Natural Resources County Agent II with the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Mercer County, and Jen LaMonaca of Walking Bird Farm in Egg Harbor City, leads the session “Pathways to Engage in NJ Agricultural Policy.” — Rebekah Schroeder

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rinceton Community Works, the annual conference for the nonprofit community, returns again in a virtual format for an evening of networking and learning on Monday, January 29, from 5 to 9 p.m. The theme for this year’s conference “Making Hope A Reality,” and the evening’s presentations designed for nonprofit boards, staff, and volunteers aim to share knowledge and tools to strengthen their nonprofit organizations. Register online at www.princetoncommunityworks.org. Cost: $20. This year’s keynote speaker, Kirsten Farrell, is the director of the Goodman Center, which helps good causes reach more people with more impact and offers both online and offline workshops on storytelling, presenting, and strategic communications. Their client list includes Annenberg Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among others. PCW’s founder and chairwoman Marge Smith said, “We realize nonprofits are facing challenging and changing times. When organizations are struggling, they lose sight of hope. Our workshops this year are designed to provide participants with tools to support their missions in this particular environment.” The evening is divided into two sessions, giving each attendee the opportunity to attend two of the more than a dozen workshops offered. New this year are workshops such as “Tips and Tools for Utilizing AI,” “Keys to Successful Fundraising,” and “Turn Your Board into High Level Performers.” “We are excited about the Artificial Intelligence topic especially,” Smith said, “as it is something that can greatly help nonprofits, but also it can cause concern. Understanding this technology to harness its power is very necessary. Knowledge sharing and collaboration has always been at the heart of what we do at PCW to help organizations increase their impact and further their visions.” Other workshops include, in the first session, “Four Simple Steps to Asking for Major Gifts,” “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Panel — Walk the Talk,” “Conversations That Matter: Better Connections,” and “Techniques to Engage Board, Staff and Volunteers.” Session II workshops include “Event Planning — Make It Matter, Make it Great!,” “Building and Expanding Online Communities: Social Media, Podcast and YouTube,” “Recruiting and Matching Volunteers’ Skills with Organizational Needs,” “Grantor’s Insights: A Panel Discussion, Outlook for 2024,” and “Leadership — Developing a Culture of Inclusion, Empowerment, Respect and Gratitude.”

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Networking, BNI Tigers Chapter, Conference Center at Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-570-3237. www.bninjpa.org. 7 to 8:30 a.m. Networking, BNI Top Flight, Town Diner, 431 Route 130, East Windsor, 609-443-8222. www. bninjpa.org. 7 a.m.

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Princeton Community Works. www.princetoncommunityworks. org. Virtual educational conference for nonprofit boards, staff, and volunteers themed “Making Hope A Reality.” Register. $20. 5 to 9 p.m.

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ART

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DANCE DRAMA MUSIC

PREV I E W DAY-BY-DAY EVENTS, JANUARY 24 TO 31

Event Listings: E-mail events@princetoninfo.com While many venues have returned to hosting in-person events, others are still taking place online. Event descriptions specify if an event is being held virtually or in a hybrid format. To include your virtual or in-person event in this section email events@princetoninfo.com.

Wednesday January 24 Classical Music Hélène Grimaud, Piano, Princeton University Concerts, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University. www.princetonuniversityconcerts.org. Works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Bach. $30 to $50. 7:30 p.m.

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On Stage

Ibsen’s Ghost, George Street Playhouse, Arthur Laurents Theater, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-545-8100. www. georgestreetplayhouse.org. A tall (and hilarious) tale of the legendary Norwegian playwright’s wife Suzannah the week after the great man’s state funeral. A fierce keeper of the flame, Suzannah is confronted with a series of predicaments: her husband’s long lost illegitimate son, his former protegee peddling a libelous diary and an enigmatic rodent exterminator known as the Rat Wife. $25 and up. 8 p.m.

Film

Matinee Movie Series: Best of British Cinema, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.princetonlibrary.org. “Kes.” This five-week series highlights films on the British Film Institute’s Top 10 list. Tea and cookies will be served. 3 p.m.

Dancing

Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive, Princeton. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Lesson followed by dance. Caller Christie Riehl and the Starling band. $15. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Wellness

Tea: Drink to Your Health, Mercer County Library. www.mcl.org. A functional food is one that has a “potentially beneficial effect on health when consumed on a regular basis and at certain levels.” Research on tea from the Camellia sinensis plant has included the study of a variety of polyphenol compounds including epigallocatechin 3- gallate (EGCG), theaflavins and thearubigins as well as other compounds found in tea. Population studies have indicated possible protective effects from tea consumption in specific chron-

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ic diseases. Join us to learn about the history, culture and these potential health benefits of tea. Presented by Sherri Cirignano, MS, RDN, LDN, FCHS Educator and Associate Professor, Warren County. Register online for link to program. 2 p.m.

Thursday January 25 Jazz & Blues Blue Note Records 85th Anniversary Celebration, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. www. mccarter.org. Founded in 1939, Blue Note Records is the most-respected and longest-running Jazz label in the world. In celebration of their 85th Anniversary, The Blue Note Quintet honors the iconic label’s rich history and showcases its current roster of eclectic musicians. $25 to $65. 7:30 p.m.

Pop Music

The Marshall Tucker Band, State Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-246-7469. www.statetheatrenj.org. With special guests, The Outlaws. $39 to $99. 8 p.m.

On Stage

102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 609-924-8777. www. artscouncilofprinceton.org. DJ provides danceable tunes for this celebration of community appropriate for all ages. Held in the Solley Theater. Free. 7 to 9:30 p.m.

Lectures

Pop Music

Online Meeting, 55-Plus Club of Princeton. www.princeton.com/ groups/55plus. Presentation by Jessica Bernton, the director of congressional affairs for the American Jewish Committee, on “The Israel-Hamas War - current status and the case for support for Israel among policymakers in Washington D.C.” Via Zoom. Free; $5 donation requested. 10 a.m. Conversation | Design and Curation: Making a New Museum for Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, Friend Center Room 101, William Street, Princeton. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Join Museum director James Steward and Juliana Ochs Dweck, chief curator, for a lively and wide-ranging glimpse into some of the discussions that are shaping the new Museum, due to open in 2025. 5:30 p.m.

Kaki King: Modern Yesterdays, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. The innovative guitarist’s latest album is a response to the unique time dilation of the COVID-19 pandemic, featuring several songs written as part her experimental theater piece “Data Not Found,” a rumination on themes of connection, alienation, and rebirth. $25 to $45. 8 p.m.

Friday January 26 Live Music Robert Ruffis Experience, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-7374465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. R&B/jazz. 5 to 8 p.m. Monthly Community Dance Party, Arts Council of Princeton,

On Stage

The Outsider, Actors’ NET, 635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, PA, 215-295-3694. www.actorsnetbucks.org. In the midst of a political scandal, Ned Newley, the ultimate policy wonk, is unexpectedly thrust into the position of Governor. Issue? Ned doesn’t even want to be Governor. He’s terrified of public speaking and his poll numbers are impressively bad. To his ever-supportive Chief of Staff, Ned seems destined to fail. But political consultant Arthur Vance sees things differently: Ned might be the worst candidate to ever run for office. Unless the public is looking for… the worst candidate to ever run for office. 8 p.m. Ibsen’s Ghost, George Street Playhouse, Arthur Laurents Theater, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-545-8100. www. georgestreetplayhouse.org. A tall (and hilarious) tale of the legendary Norwegian playwright’s wife

Suzannah the week after the great man’s state funeral. A fierce keeper of the flame, Suzannah is confronted with a series of predicaments: her husband’s long lost illegitimate son, his former protegee peddling a libelous diary and an enigmatic rodent exterminator known as the Rat Wife. $25 and up. 8 p.m. All My Sons, Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.org. The Keller family lives in a middle class, God-fearing neighborhood, where residents start and end their lives on the same block; where grape juice and gossip are never more than a few steps away, where power is gained through business and poker games, and where secrets divulged are over freshly baked apple pie. Joe Keller is a successful, self-made man, who has spent his entire life in the single-minded pursuit of wealth for the sake of his family, and who loses sight of his morality and pays the price. $22. 8 p.m. Ride the Cyclone, Villagers Theatre, 475 DeMott Lane, Somerset, 732-873-2710. www.villagerstheatre.com. In this hilarious and outlandish musical story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other -- the chance to return to life. Blackbox show. $15. 8 p.m.

Dancing

Friday Night Folk Dance, Princeton Folk Dance, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.princetonfolkdance.org. Lesson followed by open dancing. No partner necessary. $5. 8 p.m.

Shopping News

January Book Sale, Friends of the Lawrence Library, Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville. www.mcl.org. Thousands of used, gently-read books for readers of all ages. Payment by cash or check only. 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Socials

Freedom Fridays Open Mic, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Cadwalader Park, Trenton. www.ellarslie.org. Featured poet/spoken word is William Washington, who has traveled the country performing, including off Broadway in New York City. He has also opened for the legendary Delefonics and performed with The Last Poets. Poetry, lyrics, song, dance, and instrumentals welcome. Hosted by Son of Black and Jane Malloy. Light refreshments served. $5 donation at the door. 7 to 8:30 p.m.

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George Street Review: ‘Ibsen’s Ghost’

lthough one can depend on Charles Busch plays for arch lines, grand gestures, offbeat characters, and sumptuous speeches, his latest, “Ibsen’s Ghost,” having its world premiere at New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse before heading to New York for an off-Broadway run, never gains the comic or literary traction to create interest, insight, or laughs. Busch provides enough plot twists, everything from competing models for Ibsen’s famous heroine, Nora Helmer, to a clairvoyant exterminator adept at curing psychological illness, but none of them grab in a way that would make “Ibsen’s Ghost” compelling or even a sustained good time. The most Carl Andress’s production has going for it are some quirkily bright performances by its supporting cast and a handsome set by Shoko Kambara that each entering character denigrates as being Spartan or dull. With his record as a playwright, Busch deserves the benefit of the doubt. I kept looking for signs that “Ibsen’s Ghost” would turn into a rollicking farce or intentionally mangled melodrama, but such expectations were in vain. The play looks more as if it is trying to find its core. It clutches at ideas, introduces characters with potential, and has that tussle about whether Ibsen’s widow or erstwhile protégé was his inspiration for “A Doll House’s” Nora, but there’s no glue to hold all the attempted threads together or weave them into a consistently involving story. What’s left is a play of moments. Each character and each actor playing one gets at least one chance to shine. There’s the occasional tang of Busch’s usually ready wit or a sly Crawfordish moue to show his character’s displeasure. Some plot lines, especially the one about who deserves to publish a tome called, “I, Nora,” seem worth exploring, but rather than gathering steam and rolling to some comic conclusion, “Ibsen’s Ghost” regularly falls flat and can’t be resuscitated by the next new impulse Busch pulls from

Live Music Weekend Music Series, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music from 1 to 4 p.m. by Brian Bortnick. Light fare, cheese plates, chips & salsa baskets, and wine by the glass available. Noon to 5 p.m. Rainbow Fresh, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Rock/pop. 5 to 8 p.m.

Pop Music

Visiting Artists Series, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 215-862-2121. www.bcptheater.org. Divas3, three female singers with powerhouse voices, sing the biggest hits of the greatest divas in music history. Show spans four decades covering the 1960s through the 1990s with hits by Aretha Franklin, Carole King, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Cher, Dolly Parton, Donna Summer, Abba, and more. 1:30 and 7:30 p.m.

Pop Music

Freestyle Flashback, State Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-246-7469. www. statetheatrenj.org. Concert event features some of the best dancepop and freestyle artists of the 1980s and ‘90s including TKA, Ju-

by Neal Zoren his hat. Substance, sustenance, and suspense are all missing. In the long run, “Ibsen’s Ghost” provides its audience with little to care or think about. A cartwheel from Jen Cody, Christopher Borg’s delectable Rat Wife, or Jennifer Van Dyck’s excellently delivered dialogue may buoy or pepper a sequence, but in general, “Ibsen’s Ghost” needs to return to the drawing board of Busch’s imagination before it’s ready for primetime. “Ibsen’s Ghost” begins a week after Henrik Ibsen, Norway’s literary hero and one considered a neighbor to Shakespeare and a companion to his contemporaries, Shaw and Chekhov, in his standing as a playwright, passes away leaving his widow, Suzannah Thoresen Ibsen (Busch) to straighten up what “Ibsen’s Ghost” purports was, under the surface, a messy life.

Apparently, Ibsen was not given to straying romantically

from Suzannah but enjoyed being the mentor to several young women with whom he met in a dank basement beneath the Ibsen sitting room. Busch leaves most of what may have transpired in that basement to innuendo, but there is the matter that one of the women, Hanna Solberg (Van Dyck), revealed passages from her life that parallel Nora Helmer’s reason for leaving her husband. Suzannah is concerned primarily with Hanna besmirching her late husband’s reputation as an almost rigidly honorable man while being piqued that Hanna may supplant her in the public’s perception as his muse as regards Nora. “A Doll’s House” is not the only Ibsen play Busch taps in composing “Ibsen’s Ghost,” but it takes more focus than references to “Hedda Gabler” (a pistol with which Suzannah toys), “Ghosts” (concern about Ibsen’s sons, one from wedlock and the current

dy Torres, The Cover Girls, Brenda K. Starr, Cynthia, Coro, Betty D Of Sweet Sensation, Soave, Pretty Poison, Joe Zangie, and Sammy Zone. $39 to $99. 8 p.m.

prime minister of Norway, one illegitimate from a liaison of which Suzannah and her stepmother are aware, “The Wild Duck” (Hanna arriving at the Ibsen manse sporting a bow and a quiver of arrows), and others that involve various friends and relatives dropping into the lead character’s home each day. One curiosity is when Ibsen’s publisher, George Elstad (Christopher Borg) speaks about Ibsen’s plays, he badly mispronounces the one that happens to be my favorite, “Rosmersholm,” the title of which refers to an estate owned by a squire named Rosmer, and should be pronounced ‘Rosmer’s home’ rather than ‘Roshmer’s Sholm,’ as Borg’s Elstad says. “Ibsen’s Ghost” is most entertaining when a character takes off on a flight of speech. Van Dyck’s monologues as Hanna are particular delights, as if Busch had her bits added to by Oscar Wilde. Christopher Borg is captivating when he abandons the mercenary publisher, Elstad, and becomes the Rat Wife. Judy Kaye, as usual, makes one pay attention to her character. Jen Cody is a slapstick wonder as a housemaid whose limbs bend in opposing directions and can’t maneuver anywhere in a straight line. Alas, the sequences of glory are fleeting and are isolated gems that don’t lead to next beats or specific plot action. The cast keeps “Ibsen’s Ghost” afloat. Charles Busch may not have provided Suzannah a strong enough core or decided purpose, but as he has proven throughout his career, he knows how to establish his character’s mark on a stage. In a tribute to Busch’s generosity as a playwright and cast member, Suzannah is overshadowed by Cody’s eccentric afflicted maid, Van Dyck’s righteously logical Hanna, and Borg’s hilarious and frightening Rat Wife. Even so, his star quality comes out in some of the expressions he makes while showing the audience an emotion

only we see and in his ability to command attention to anything his character is doing. I wish Busch the actor could save Busch the playwright on this occasion, but a script that gets many of its laughs from lists that end in a preposterous choice, such as one that concludes with “bamboozle,” doesn’t give him the chance to galvanize the show. Jennifer Van Dyck is perfect, displaying the hauteur of a confident woman while comically acquainting us with Hanna’s difficult past and standing up for Hanna’s rights. Jen Cody scores with her hoydenish portrayal of a maid with unruly limbs but a healthy libido. Cody also makes an amusing character transformation. Except for his “Rosmersholm” glitch, Christopher Borg is simultaneously suave and oily as Ibsen’s publisher and lots of fun as the psychic Rat Wife. Thomas Gibson, of “Dharma and Greg” and “Criminal Minds” fame, plays deftly against type as a roguish but ardent sailor/adventurer who turns up at the Ibsen home for a keepsake belonging to his father.

Christopher Borg, left, and Charles Busch in ‘Ibsen’s Ghost,’ continuing at George Street Playhouse through February 4. Despite what Busch has characters say, Shoko Kambara’s den is so cozy and well-appointed, my first impression upon seeing it was wanting to move in. In color tones and style, Kambara provides an admirable set. Gregory Gale is equally as adept with the period costumes, particularly the archery gear for Hanna. Ken Billington’s lighting and sound by Jill BC DuBoff and Ien DeNio serve well. Ibsen’s Ghost, George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. Through Sunday, February 4, Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday at 2 p.m. $25 to $70. www.georgestreetplayhouse.org or 732-2467717.

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Art

Artist Talk, Trenton Artists Workshop Association, Trenton Free Public Library, 120 Academy Street, Trenton, 609-392-7188. Ken Alexander, a self-taught Trenton-based painter whose work depicts human experiences in various settings using abstractions, gives a talk in conjunction with the final day of his exhibit, “Paintings by Ken Alexander.” 3 p.m. George Segal: Themes and Variations, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick. zimmerli. rutgers.edu. Opening reception for exhibit of more than 60 of Segal’s works marking the centennial of his birth in 1924. Live music and refreshments offered. Exhibit catalogue available for sale. On view through July 31. 4 to 7 p.m.

Dance

Mark Morris Dance Group, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. A selection of innovative works than span the decades including “A Wooden Tree,” “Excursions,” “Candleflowerdance,” and “Castor and Pollux.” $25 to $80. 8 p.m.

On Stage Ibsen’s Ghost, George Street Playhouse, Arthur Laurents Theater, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-545-8100. www. georgestreetplayhouse.org. A tall (and hilarious) tale of the legendary Norwegian playwright’s wife Suzannah the week after the great man’s state funeral. A fierce keeper of the flame, Suzannah is confronted with a series of predicaments: her husband’s long lost illegitimate son, his former protegee peddling a libelous diary and an enigmatic rodent exterminator known as the Rat Wife. $25 and up. 2 and 8 p.m. The Outsider, Actors’ NET, 635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, PA, 215-295-3694. www.actorsnetbucks.org. In the midst of a political scandal, Ned Newley, the ultimate policy wonk, is unexpectedly thrust into the position of Governor. Issue? Ned doesn’t even want to be Governor. He’s terrified of public speaking and his poll numbers are impressively bad. To his ever-supportive Chief of Staff, Ned seems destined to fail. But political consultant Arthur

Vance sees things differently: Ned might be the worst candidate to ever run for office. Unless the public is looking for… the worst candidate to ever run for office. 8 p.m. All My Sons, Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.org. The Keller family lives in a middle class, God-fearing neighborhood, where residents start and end their lives on the same block; where grape juice and gossip are never more than a few steps away, where power is gained through business and poker

games, and where secrets divulged are over freshly baked apple pie. Joe Keller is a successful, self-made man, who has spent his entire life in the single-minded pursuit of wealth for the sake of his family, and who loses sight of his morality and pays the price. $22. 8 p.m. Ride the Cyclone, Villagers Theatre, 475 DeMott Lane, Somerset, 732-873-2710. www.villagerstheatre.com. In this hilarious and outlandish musical story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a Continued on following page

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Connecting Princeton & Mexico with Soccer & Song

arlos Cortez straddles two worlds. His family is from Zináparo, a small rural village in Michoácan, Mexico, where few people have ever heard of Princeton University. He’s a senior at Princeton University, where few people have ever heard of Zináparo. But Carlos had an idea to bring these two worlds together. Last year, with the funding he won as Princeton’s 2023 Projects for Peace award recipient, he started a music and soccer summer camp for Zináparo youth. Now everyone in Zináparo knows Princeton. And Princeton is just getting to know Zináparo. An idea Even though Carlos was born and raised in Antioch, California, he considers his real hometown to be Zináparo, where most of his extended family still lives. Twice every year, he travels to Zináparo to enjoy the balmy summers and festive winters, hiking in the nearby mountains and participating in the annual peregrinación (religious pilgrimage). Accepted into Princeton as a Questbridge scholar, Carlos chose to major in neuroscience and committed to the pre-med track, supplementing his coursework with research and tutoring jobs. Despite his busy schedule, he felt restless. His thoughts constantly returned to Zináparo. “My dream was to become a doctor and open a pediatric clinic in Zináparo,” he says. “But I realized that it would be many years before I could accomplish this. I didn’t want to wait that long. I wanted a chance to do something now.” That chance soon arrived. During his junior year, he heard about the Pace Center for Civic Engagement’s Projects for Peace initiative, which provides Princeton undergraduates with a $10,000 award to implement a service project anywhere in the world. With his family’s encouragement, he proposed a music and soccer summer camp for children in Zináparo. “Growing up in California, music and soccer were very important for me in making community,” he says. “I wanted the kids in Zináparo to have the same experience.” In the spring of 2023, he won the award. A village As any entrepreneur will tell you, the road from idea to execution is a winding one. “Right before arriving in Zináparo, I was feeling that the process would be easy,” Carlos says. “But when I landed in Zináparo, I started to realize that it was going to be a long journey with a lot of challenges.” The first challenge was recruiting children for the camp, which Carlos had titled, “Musical Notes: A Composition for Peace.” Even though Carlos was a frequent visitor to Zináparo, he remained an unfamiliar face to many people. It didn’t matter that Princeton was supporting the camp; none of the children knew what Princeton even was. He began by visiting the local high school where his aunt Noemí taught history and ethics, going from classroom to classroom and

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telling students about his new program. He later found out that one of the students called up Noemí, a widely respected community leader in Zináparo, and told her that someone from Princeton University wanted to start a summer camp. “Do you know about this?” the student asked. “Can we trust him?” “Of course you can,” Noemí replied. “He’s my nephew!” Another challenge was procuring instruments. Almost 40 kids wanted to learn guitar, violin, or bass—but none of them had their own instrument. One hot summer day, Carlos, his younger sister Natalia, his mother Eréndira, his uncle Adrián, and his grandfather Guillermo piled into the family van and drove two hours to Paracho, a small town in Michoácan that specializes in making instruments. (Paracho inspired the setting of the Oscarwinning animated film Coco.) Once in Paracho, they purchased several instruments from a local luthier. Somehow, they crammed one bass, five guitars, and seven violins into a van that already contained five people. “I was pressed up against the side of the van,” says Carlos. “It was definitely an experience.” They made several return trips to Paracho for more instruments, and on one occasion, the aforementioned luthier drove a second bass all the way to Zináparo by himself. Carlos was surprised by how enthusiastically the Zináparo community rallied around the camp. Countless people pitched in: the neighbor who let them use his house for rehearsals; the business owner who let them use his shop for a private recital; and Carlos’ 10-year-old student Hector and Hector’s mother Luz, who cleaned up after every rehearsal. “Without everyone’s help, this project would not have been possible,” says Carlos. The camp exceeded even Carlos’ wildest expectations. Every Monday through Thursday for two and a half months, almost 100 children aged four to 17 participated in one or more classes: soccer, choir, guitar, and violin/bass. Carlos coached the soccer team and hired teachers for the other subjects. “I wanted teachers who were passionate about working with kids,” says Carlos. “I didn’t want them to treat this as just another way to make money.” On the last day of camp, his soccer team surprised him with a loud round of applause. One student cried out, “Carlos for president!” Carlos promised to buy them jerseys out of his own money if they continued to practice soccer. Continue they did. Even though Carlos had to return to Princeton for his senior year, he was determined to keep the camp going. He found two people to coach the soccer team on a volunteer basis; they had recently moved to Zináparo and had long dreamed of coaching their own team. He used his leftover Projects for Peace funding to pay for weekly choral and instrumental lessons for his students until December, and let them keep their instruments. Noemí took his place as the point person for the program.

For Carlos, the experience was a blessing. “I just wanted to change the future of even one of the kids,” he says. “I’m seeing that difference already.” A debut On January 7, Carlos woke up with butterflies in his stomach. Today was the debut of Musical Notes: A Composition for Peace. Since the summer, the choir and orchestra (consisting of guitar, violin, and bass) had been rehearsing weekly for a big concert in the Zináparo town square. The entire community had been invited, and Carlos’ extended family in California had flown out to watch. First, Carlos stopped by the soccer field to observe a match between his team and a team from a neighboring town. He had kept his

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promise: His team was wearing brand-new orange and black jerseys. Natalia had designed the jerseys, including the iconic image of a Princeton tiger glaring through claw marks. “In one of our first games, we played against a team from a much wealthier town,” says Carlos. “I could tell how discouraged my students were to see how much nicer [the opposing team’s] field was. I got them jerseys because I wanted them to feel proud to be on this team. I wanted them to feel like they were a part of something bigger…like they had the support of Princeton University.” The new jerseys seemed to do the trick: After putting them on, his team won the next game. After the match, Carlos and his parents walked to the town square to set up for the performance. The owner of the local funeral home, whose daughter was in the choir, had donated 150 chairs for the audience—and had even purchased new ones so that there would be enough.

Carlos was worried that not enough people were going to show up to fill the seats. But as people started entering the town square, he realized that he had the opposite problem: He didn’t have enough seats. His family raced to the rehearsal space, grabbed as many chairs as they could, carried them back, and set them up with only minutes to spare. The new chairs were quickly occupied and latecomers had to stand. At least 350 people were in the audience. As Natalia helped tune the guitars, she noticed a student looking forlorn. She asked him what was wrong, and he quietly asked if this was the last day of the program. “Of course not,” Natalia assured him. He smiled. The choir opened the concert with six Christmas carols. During “Noche de paz” (Silent Night), they cradled candles in their hands, their faces glowing as if lit from within. For their final song, “Ven a Cantar” (Sing with Us), they rolled up their sleeves, revealing bracelets made of jingle bells. As they clapped their hands, the ringing of bells filled the crisp winter air. The orchestra was up next, performing two songs that featured a 15-year-old choral student named Andrea. Her voice, initially hesitant and wavering, gradually grew in power. The guitarists kept the orchestra together with their steady strumming, and the violinists trained their eyes on the conductor, determined not to miss their tremolo entrance. In the very back, a student plucked away at the bass that Carlos had brought back from Paracho. After the orchestra finished, Noemí invited Hector and Luz to the stage and thanked them for keeping the rehearsal space clean. She presented them with gifts and embraced a clearly overcome Luz. The crowd cheered. Next to speak was Carlos’ student José, who at 17 years old was the oldest member of the program. “I want to give a special thank you to Carlos for giving me and the children of this town the opportunity to learn music,” he said. “I hope this continues…Zináparo needs these programs.” Carlos walked onstage to deliver the concluding remarks. “Thank you to my grandparents for giving me a love of Zináparo,” he said,

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choking back tears. “I know I wasn’t born here, but this is my home.” As Carlos left the stage, he was mobbed by students, parents, complete strangers—all of whom wanted to take a picture with him. Grown men were crying and little kids were beaming. “Before this camp, the children of Zináparo didn’t have anything like this,” says Eréndira. “But now, they do.” Carlos hopes that the camp will take place every summer, with weekly programming throughout the rest of the year. He hopes that someday his music students will be paid to perform or even to teach. (This is already happening: José has been invited by his guitar teacher to perform in a mariachi band, and Carlos wants him to teach for the camp.) He hopes to solicit donations from Zináparo residents who have immigrated to the United States, and to potentially seek funding from the Mexican government. These are all big dreams. It’s a lot for one Princeton student—and soon-to-be-alum—to take on alone. But Carlos knows he isn’t alone. “I feel honored to have so many different communities believe in the project,” he says. “It ensures the life of the project, because there are so many people invested in wanting to see the kids succeed.” To learn more about Musical Notes: A Composition for Peace, follow them on Instagram. Their full debut performance can be viewed on YouTube.

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Good Causes

Community ShareFair, Princeton Justice Initiative, East Trenton Collaborative, 601 North Clinton Avenue, Trenton. www.pjihelps.org. Selection of groceries, hot food, cooking workshops, physical and mental health services and advocacy, vaccines, legal services, and more. Noon to 3 p.m.

Science Lectures

Science On Saturday Lecture Series, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, 100 Stellarator Road, Princeton. www.pppl.gov. “Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” presentation by Ahmed Elgammal, professor in the Department

of Computer Sciences and founder and director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Coffee and donuts precede talk. Photo ID required. 8:30 to 11 a.m.

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ince 1900 YMCA Camp Mason has welcomed campers to be a part of our caring, inclusive community. We strive for excellence and innovation and believe that every child deserves the opportunity to discover who they are and what they can achieve. Our proven programs and trained counselors engage and encourage young people and deliver meaningful and memorable experiences. Our campers say it best! “I made so many new friends and now I know I can do anything!” Our schedule allows campers to try an amazing amount of activities and improve their

Classical Music Brass Quartet: Bach to Broadway and Beyond, Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey, St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church, 335 Adeline Street, Trenton. www.capitalphilharmonic.org. Led by CPNJ and Philly POPS trumpeter, Bob Gravener, explore music from Bach to Broadway and beyond with a brass quartet, featuring selections from Gabrieli and Bach, to selections from The Man of La Mancha and Caruso. Part of the CPNJ Musician’s Choice Chamber Music Series. $25. 3 p.m. Altamura Legacy Concerts, Legacy Arts International, Princeton

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United Methodist Church, 7 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton, 609-924-2613. www.legacyartsinternational.org/modals/legacyconcerts.html. Pianists from the Princeton area perform eclectic works in “Mozart’s Birthday Marathon Concert.” Includes students from Legacy Arts International’s All-Abilities Music Creation Program performing their new compositions. $30 cash at the door. 3 p.m.

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HVV Jazz Band, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Jazz. 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.

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advers TK Lawrence Hamnett Duncraven Equestrian On Stage The Outsider, Actors’ NET, 635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, PA, 215-295-3694. www.actorsnetbucks.org. In the midst of a political scandal, Ned Newley, the ultimate policy wonk, is unexpectedly thrust into the position of Governor. Issue? Ned doesn’t even want to be Governor. He’s terrified of public speaking and his poll numbers are impressively bad. To his ever-supportive Chief of Staff, Ned seems destined to fail. But political consultant Arthur Vance sees things differently: Ned might be the worst candidate to ever run for office. Unless the public is looking for… the worst candidate to ever run for office. 2 p.m. Ibsen’s Ghost, George Street Playhouse, Arthur Laurents Theater, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-545-8100. www. georgestreetplayhouse.org. A tall (and hilarious) tale of the legendary Norwegian playwright’s wife Suzannah the week after the great man’s state funeral. A fierce keeper of the flame, Suzannah is

confronted with a series of predicaments: her husband’s long lost illegitimate son, his former protegee peddling a libelous diary and an enigmatic rodent exterminator known as the Rat Wife. $25 and up. 2 p.m. All My Sons, Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.org. The Keller family lives in a middle class, God-fearing neighborhood, where residents start and end their lives on the same block; where grape juice and gossip are never more than a few steps away, where power is gained through business and poker games, and where secrets divulged are over freshly baked apple pie. Joe Keller is a successful, self-made man, who has spent his entire life in the single-minded pursuit of wealth for the sake of his family, and who loses sight of his morality and pays the price. $22. 2 p.m. Ride the Cyclone, Villagers Theatre, 475 DeMott Lane, Somerset, 732-873-2710. www.villager-

stheatre.com. In this hilarious and outlandish musical story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other -- the chance to return to life. Blackbox show. $15. 2 p.m.

Literati

Author: Sam Daley-Harris, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.princetonlibrary.org. Activist and author Sam Daley-Harris discusses the revised and updated version of his book “Reclaiming Our Democracy: Every Citizen’s Guide to Transformational Advocacy.” Book signing and action fair to follow the talk. In collaboration with Labyrinth Books. 3 to 5 p.m.

Food & Dining

Vedic Cultural Immersion: Prasadam Distribution & Kirtan, Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute, Princeton Family YMCA, 59

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Winter Lecture Series, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, Pennsylvania. www.bhwp.org. Series of guest lectures via Zoom or in-person. “Seeing the Seasons: Through the Lens of Native Plants” with Samantha Bean. Register. $15. 2 to 3 p.m.

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Wassailing the Trees, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Lawrence, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Celebrate the ancient Anglo-Saxon tradition of Wassailing the Trees to wish for a successful harvest. The festivities include dancing and singing by the Handsome Molly Dancers, reenactments of traditional old English rituals, hot cider and donuts, and more. 1 to 4 p.m.

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Lenape Storytelling with Barbara Bluejay Michalski, D&R Greenway Land Trust, Point Breeze, 101 Park Avenue, Bordentown. www.drgreenway.org. Wintertime is when Indigenous peoples gather to tell stories. Bluejay is Chief, Keeper of Culture, Storyteller and Public Speaker for the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania. Her intention is “to educate the public on

the Lenape Nation, stressing how we should take care of Mother Earth and letting them know we are still here!” Join to hear stories about the First People of Point Breeze. $10 suggested donation includes a souvenir magnet. 2 to 4 p.m.

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Monday January 29 Wellness Interwoven Stories of Healing with Music (Embroidery Workshop), Princeton University Concerts. www.princetonuniversityconcerts.org. Join other community members to embroider your thoughts on music’s vital role in your life under the guidance of local artist Diana Weymar. Via Zoom. Register. Free. 7 p.m.

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Tuesday January 30 Live Music Acappella Chorus Rehearsal, The Gardenstatesmen, Plainsboro Recreation Center, 641 Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro, 609-462-3371. Male acapella chorus invites all guests to rehearsals to sign or listen and stay as long as they wish. 7:30 p.m.

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Tuesday Night Folk Dance, Princeton Folk Dance, Christ Congregation, 50 Walnut Lane, Princeton. www.princetonfolkdance.org. No partner necessary. $5. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

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Mad for Art: Paint Night, Center for Modern Aging Princeton, 101 Poor Farm Road, Princeton. www.princetonsenior.org. This is a multi-lingual program with instructions provided in English, Russian, and Spanish languages. Embrace the winter wonder with a Polar Bear Paint Night extravaganza. Grab your brushes and warm up your imagination to bring a cuddly polar bear to life on canvas. Register. $25; $20 residents. 4 to 6 p.m.

Scenario for a Past Future: Exhibition by Josephine Meckseper, Lewis Center for the Arts, Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts Complex, Princeton University. arts.princeton.edu. Opening reception for interactive multimedia installation in which artist Josephine Meckseper projects life-size virtual artwork which she created in partnership with the digital arts organization DMINTI and architect Hani Rashid. In real time at the gallery, visitors experience and enter a modernist glass vitrine inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion and Bruno Taut’s Alpine architecture. On view through February 22. 6 to 8 p.m.

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uch has been written about the power of place. For David DeFreese, board chair of the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra (GPYO), the legacy of Westminster Choir College is palpable. After all, as the former home of the esteemed Westminster Choir, the campus has attracted top talent from around the globe, with major conductors and performing arts organizations drawing on the choir’s reliable excellence for decades of celebrated performances and recordings. This past summer, the Westminster campus, located at the intersection of Hamilton Avenue and Walnut Lane in Princeton, became GPYO’s new home. “We love the facility,” DeFreese says. “We love being a part of the history of this campus. I was very excited when we were able to find a way to be a part of that legacy. This is a really special place in the performing arts world.” He indicates a poster of Leonard Bernstein mounted near the stairs of Bristol Chapel that bears the inscription, “Westminster Choir College provides a great measure of beauty to a world that needs it badly.” With its own history extending back more than 60 years, GPYO’s mission is to provide superior training and performance opportunities for young people in search of a challenging musical ensemble experience, and to cultivate a lifelong

appreciation of the arts. The afterschool program accepts musicians from second grade through high school by audition. Prior to settling into its new digs, classes and rehearsals were held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton. GPYO supports five performance ensembles: Symphonic Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, Chamber Winds Ensemble, Camerata Strings Ensemble, and Preparatory Strings Ensemble. All rehearse weekly on Monday evenings and perform a minimum of two to three concerts annually. This winter’s concerts will include performances by GPYO’s upper-level groups at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on Saturday, February 3, at 7 p.m. The Symphonic Orchestra will play the rarely-heard “Blumine” movement from the original version of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 (later excised by the composer) and the “Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture” by Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, conducted by Jiannan Cheng. Cheng, who joined GPYO this past summer as its new music director, is on the faculty of Rowan University, where, among her duties, she teaches conducting and serves as music director of the Rowan University Orchestra. On the same program, the Concert Orchestra will perform the

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Film

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Matinee Movie Series: Best of British Cinema, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.princetonlibrary.org. “The Third Man.” This five-week series highlights films on the British Film Institute’s Top 10 list. Tea and cookies will be served. 3 p.m.

A Raisin in the Sun, Bristol Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, PA. www.brtstage. org. Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece in which the five members of the Younger family are each looking for ways to improve their lot through education, business, real estate, and sheer self-determination. The arrival of a longawaited life insurance check promises life changing opportunities. But how to spend it best? $50 to $60. 7:30 p.m. Ibsen’s Ghost, George Street Playhouse, Arthur Laurents Theater, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, 732-545-8100. www. georgestreetplayhouse.org. A tall (and hilarious) tale of the legendary Norwegian playwright’s wife Suzannah the week after the great man’s state funeral. A fierce keeper of the flame, Suzannah is confronted with a series of predicaments: her husband’s long lost illegitimate son, his former protegee peddling a libelous diary and an enigmatic rodent exterminator known as the Rat Wife. $25 and up. 8 p.m. yuniya edi kwon: silver through the grass like nothing (work in process), Lewis Center for the Arts, Hearst Dance Theater, Lewis Arts Complex, Princeton University. arts.princeton.edu. Created by Princeton Arts Fellow yuniya edi kwon, this early, in-process solo performance creates an immersive world of sound, welcome and unwelcome shadows, entangled gazes, and fluid voices, within which kwon journeys as both messenger and message. The piece includes embodied storysinging, experimental music-theater, and emergent movement. Connecting to the history of pearl relics (sari) and their keepers, as well as the true story of kwon’s “sudden, sibylline illnesses” and their accompanying medical traumas, silver through the grass like nothing is an impressionistic, bardo-like meditation on sickness, grief, and the body’s incessant

overture to “The Barber of Seville” by Gioachino Rossini, the “Pavane” of Gabriel Fauré, and music from “The Phantom of the Opera” by Andrew Lloyd Webber, conducted by Joseph Pucciatti. Pucciatti, a long-time music educator in the Trenton area and artistic director of Boheme Opera NJ, also joined GPYO over the summer. Rounding out the conducting staff is David Rabinowitz, who directs the Chamber Winds Ensemble, and Blair Cunningham, who

conducts the Camerata Strings Ensemble and the Preparatory Strings Ensemble. The latter groups will perform for family members on a separate concert at the aforementioned Bristol Chapel, a venue with much more limited seating, at the end of January. Other benefits available to GPYO students include access to sectionals (rehearsals in which portions of the orchestra play through and iron out a score’s trickier passages) led by special guests, mas-

connect to and reflect natural systems with Priscilla Hayes. Register. Pay what you can, $8 and up. 8 to 9 a.m.

p.m. Mystical Zionism’s Surprising Origins: Rav Kook’s Early Decades, Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life. bildnercenter.rutgers.edu. Yehudah Mirsky of Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University gives a virtual lecture on Rav (Rabbi) Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935), who is widely known as the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the Land of Israel, an important theologian, a foundational thinker of religious Zionism, and the Zionist movement’s most influential and controversial rabbinic advocate. Register online for Zoom link. 7 p.m.

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terclasses with professional musicians (most recently Philadelphia Orchestra associate concert master Juliette Kang), educational workshops, and a concerto competition, providing the opportunity for students to prepare a movement from

Dancing

Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive, Princeton. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Lesson followed by dance. Caller Dan Black and the Princeton Pickup Band. $15. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Gardens

Grow Your Own Microgreens Workshop, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. www.morven.org. Join Morven’s horticulturalists Louise Senior and Charlie Thomforde as they lead a Grow Your Own Microgreens Workshop. Microgreens are young seedlings of edible vegetables and herbs. Unlike larger herbs and vegetables that can take weeks or months to grow, microgreens can be harvested and eaten much sooner. They are also easy to grow inside during the winter months. Louise and Charlie will explain the science, benefits, and best practices behind growing microgreens. All supplies provided. Workshop participants will leave with a microgreen growing kit, including planted seeds, that can be used again following the first harvest. Register. $15. Suggested for ages 12 and older. 6 p.m.

Wellness

Wild Gentle Yoga: Yoga to Connect with Yourself and Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, PA. www.bhwp.org. Gentle yoga that builds body awareness, strength, flexibility and a better understanding of how humans

Lectures

A History of Muslims in America, Mercer County Library. www. mcl.org. Most Americans are unaware of the long history of Muslims in the United States. This presentation covers that history beginning with the substantial and documented presence of Muslims among enslaved Africans in the Americas. It then describes the rediscovery of Islam among African Americans in the 20th century as well as among Latinos and Whites. It also highlights Muslim influences on American culture including in music, cuisine, and architecture, and the successive waves of immigration that brought Muslims to our country beginning in the late 19th century. The presentation concludes by highlighting notable Muslim Americans today. Presented by Islamic Network Group of New Jersey. Register online for link to program. 2

Socials

An Evening of Live Music, Capital Harmony Works, 6 Buckingham Avenue, Trenton. www.capitalharmony.org. The CHW Salon Series is an opportunity to showcase student progress and connect with new friends. Gathering at the home of Karen Palmer Richardson features artistic director Melissa Nino and two young

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players from the Trenton Music Makers Orchestra. Program tells the story of these young musicians and their journey with this El Sistema orchestra. Donations accepted. 6 p.m.

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one of the great concertos for possible inclusion in a spring concert. This year’s competition winner is Alexia Fang, a Montgomery High School student whose performance of the first movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 secures her appearance as soloist with the Symphonic Orchestra at Richardson Auditorium on June 9. It is not only the historical significance of the campus that makes the former base of Westminster Choir College so attractive. GPYO has found a good fit with neighboring Westminster Conservatory of Music, the community music school of Westminster College of the Arts, established on the campus in 1970. The two organizations now share a reciprocal tuition arrangement that allows student musicians to avail themselves of their joint resources. “What we realized during the pandemic was that a lot of institutions could not just go about things on their own,” DeFreese says. “So many performing arts groups were looking for collaborations and partnerships.” DeFreese’s reverence for tradition extends to the GPYO itself. He has been gradually piecing together a history of the organization, an effort made more challenging by the fact that many records were lost in a house fire years ago. Happily, the founder of the orchestra that became GPYO, Matteo Giammario, is still available to share his stories. Giammario will be 99 in March. Born to parents who emigrated from Italy’s Apulia region — the heel of the “boot,” as it were — he developed an early fascination with music from the Neapolitan songs he overheard growing up in Trenton’s Little Italy. His mother steered him from the guitar to the violin, which started him on the path of his life’s passion, which has been for music education and performance. Following service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Giammario used his G.I. Bill benefits to attend NYU, where he received his bachelor’s degree. He earned his master’s from Columbia University and a doctorate from the University of Arizona. Further training was undertaken at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. Most of Giammario’s teaching career was spent in the Trenton school district, where he served first as a music educator, then as director of music education. In 1960 he was invited by the American Federation of Musicians, Local 62, to conduct the Mercer County Symphonic Orchestra. The orchestra originally performed mainly at the Trenton War Memorial and, according to an article in the digital archive of the New York Times, was intended as a sort of training ground for future members of the Greater Trenton Symphony. From the start, its personnel consisted of local high school and regional college musicians. The orchestra became a resident ensemble of the Lawrenceville School. Another article in the Times announces a benefit concert at the school in 1975 to be conducted by the internationally beloved

pianist and humorist Victor Borge. The orchestra, it notes, “is composed of approximately 70 musicians from public and private junior and senior high schools and a few community colleges within the Delaware Valley.” At the time, Giammario was also conductor of the Bucks County Youth Orchestra and the Ars Nova Chamber Orchestra. Later still, Giammario oversaw the board during a period of transition that yielded the orchestra’s rebranding as the GPYO, offering even greater breadth to the student musician experience. “He is so dedicated to the concept of music, music education, music performance,” DeFreese says. “He’s a true piece of history and a legend in the Trenton-Princeton community.” In retirement, Giammario continues to compose and arrange, and of course share his rich history and that of the orchestra he founded. The concerto competition, named for him, is one of the many ways in which the GPYO has committed to honoring his legacy. The Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey, located across Route 1 in West Windsor, was founded by Portia Sonnenfeld in 1978 as a preparatory orchestra for Giammario’s Mercer County Symphonic Orchestra. The two organizations are now unrelated. Previously, Sonnenfeld was a music teacher at Littlebrook Elementary School in Princeton. She became the orchestra director at Princeton High School in 1973. In 1980, she established the Little Orchestra of Princeton (in 1984 renamed the Chamber Symphony of Princeton), which evolved into today’s Princeton Symphony Orchestra. The students of GPYO have played challenging concerts and recitals at numerous local, regional, and international venues, including Carnegie Hall, the former Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Patriots Theater at the Trenton War Memorial, the New Jersey Governor’s Mansion Drumthwacket, and several European invitational tours. DeFreese played trombone in his high school band (the instrument has since been passed on to his nephew) and later, as an adult, took up the flute. He recalls with pride performing with his children in the Hillsborough Community Band. But he attributes the bulk of his music education to having followed his son, who is a French hornist. In fact, it was through him that he first learned of GPYO, and the experience was transformative. “I started out as a parent volunteer with concerts and set-ups and things like that,” he says, “and then the board invited me to join several years ago.” He singles out a performance by a concerto competition winner at Richardson Auditorium 10 years ago, his son’s first year, as one of his great experiences. “I couldn’t believe that such a young person could have such a command of the music, command of Richardson Auditorium, command of the audience. It stuck with me for a

long time.” DeFreese’s degree, from Princeton University, is in mechanical engineering. But he understands that musical performance doesn’t always have to be a life pursuit. In fact, music can be a means of enrichment, no matter where life takes one. “Many of the top musicians don’t actually pursue music education or music performance,” he says. “Many of them become STEM students or pursue STEM careers. [STEM = science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.] Doctors, engineers, scientists. The fact that they have a passion for music, even though they go into different careers, is good.” And he observes that it goes both ways. “We had a board member who went to college for computer science, but she has come back and gone into music, and she has a music studio. That’s her career now.” In theory and often in practice, music makes better people. The discipline and skills developed in the playing music, and playing well with others, have applications everywhere. In so many ways, a grounding in music carries with it the potential to strengthen communities and to make a better world. Westminster Choir was founded in 1920 by John Finley Williamson, widely regarded as one of the 20th century’s most influential choral conductors, at Westminster Presbyterian Church, in Dayton, Ohio. Already in 1922, the choir was touring the country annually, with appearances at Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia’s Academy of Music, and even the White House, where the group sang for Presidents Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The ensemble made its first commercial recording in 1926, the year Williamson established the Westminster Choir School, which employed a faculty of ten and sported a student body of sixty. In 1932, the school relocated to Princeton. Classes were held at First Presbyterian Church and

Princeton Theological Seminary until 1934, at which time the school settled into its present location at 101 Walnut Lane. The campus was dedicated with a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor at Princeton University Chapel, with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski. Williamson retired as president of the college in 1958. For decades, Westminster Symphonic Choir was a choir of choice for the nation’s great orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. It also received invitations over the years to perform with touring orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductors with whom the choir performed included Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowski, Robert Shaw, Arturo Toscanini, and Gustavo Dudamel. In a series of controversial decisions that still has emotions running high among alumni, performing arts organizations, and musiclovers around the world, but most especially in the Princeton community, a financially strapped Rider University, which merged with Westminster in 1992, attempted to sell the campus in 2018 and by 2020 had largely absorbed the college’s operations into university’s Lawrenceville campus, uprooting an historic institution that had existed at its Princeton location since 1934. Lawsuits were filed, dismissed, and reinstated. Two court rulings this past summer went against Rider, and it was reported that a new prospective buyer for Westminster has emerged, proposing to reestablish the school at the Princeton campus. Whatever the future holds, for now, it’s nice to have some positive news to share about this former bastion of artistic excellence. For more information about the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra, visit gpyo.org.

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