The Paper Moon Puppet Theatre presents Cinderella, a delightful version of the timeless classic created specially for the puppet theatre, featuring beautiful rod puppets, scenery and hilarious characters.
For tickets and information, call Paper Moon Puppet Theatre at 732-775-0290
The Simon String Quartet will be joined by other Summer String-In faculty members – violist Kimberly Foster-Wallace and cellist Joseph Kimura – to play Dvorak’s Sextet in A Major, Op 48 and Dohnanyi’s Sextet in B♭ Major.
Monmouth University is pleased to announce that the Simon String Quartet and colleagues will again present free classical chamber music concerts as part of its Summer String-In workshop. The Simon String Quartet (Fiona Simon and Sebu Sirinian, violins; Lisa Suslowicz, viola; David Bakamjian, cello) is a special group of four seasoned performers whose passion for chamber music infuses their collaboration with energy and dynamism. Led by Fiona Simon, a member of the New York Philharmonic, its members each combine careers in chamber music and orchestras, and as soloists and teachers. Although currently based in New York, where they individually perform with some of the most distinguished ensembles in the area, their performing careers have taken them all over the world. The Summer String-In, now in its tenth season, is an intensive week-long music workshop for adult amateur string players that takes place on the campus of Monmouth University.
The Simon Quartet will perform Haydn’s jocular Quartet in F Major, Op. 50, No 5, followed by Debussy’s richly textured Quartet, and finally, one of Mozart’s late masterpieces, the Quartet in B♭ Major, K. 589.
Monmouth University is pleased to announce that the Simon String Quartet and colleagues will again present free classical chamber music concerts as part of its Summer String-In workshop. The Simon String Quartet (Fiona Simon and Sebu Sirinian, violins; Lisa Suslowicz, viola; David Bakamjian, cello) is a special group of four seasoned performers whose passion for chamber music infuses their collaboration with energy and dynamism. Led by Fiona Simon, a member of the New York Philharmonic, its members each combine careers in chamber music and orchestras, and as soloists and teachers. Although currently based in New York, where they individually perform with some of the most distinguished ensembles in the area, their performing careers have taken them all over the world. The Summer String-In, now in its tenth season, is an intensive week-long music workshop for adult amateur string players that takes place on the campus of Monmouth University.
Oro Macht Frei tells the story of the Roman Jewish experience of the Nazi occupation of Rome (Sept 1943 – June 1944). Weaving testimony from Roman Jews together with historical research by renowned scholars on the subject (including Susan Zuccotti, Alexander Stille, Liliana Picciotto), OMF seeks to bring the viewer into a personal and relatable reflection of the Holocaust in Italy through the eyes of this unique and historic community.
There will be a panel/Q & A following screening.
The panel includes:
Joel Markel, Producer/Founder of Ottimo Films
Susan Zuccotti, American historian, specializing in Holocaust studies
Jane Denny, Director of Education CHHANGE (Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education) at Brookdale College
Saliba Sarsar, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Monmouth University
Catherine Campbell, Producer/Editor/Writer for Ottimo Films
Moderated by Susan Douglas, Specialist Professor of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University.
Please Note that tickets including lunch are no longer available. You will still be able to purchase lunch separately at the Student Center during the forum or go off campus on your own.
As a young child in the 1950s, Bruce Springsteen saw Elvis Presley perform on The Ed Sullivan Show, turned towards his mother and said, “I wanna be just…like…that.” It wasn’t until he was a teenager in 1964, however, during the first summer after the British Invasion began to transform U.S. popular culture, that Springsteen took his first serious steps towards a life in music. According to Peter Ames Carlin’s biography BRUCE, that summer he used money earned from painting his aunt’s house to purchase an $18 acoustic guitar, a copy of 100 Greatest American Folk Songs and then “committed himself to mastering the instrument.” Fifty years have passed since that fateful summer, and Bruce Springsteen is now one of popular music’s most beloved, significant and enduring artists.
The Friends and Monmouth University will sponsor a unique Springsteen-themed forum entitled in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Bruce Springsteen’s first major steps towards becoming a professional musician.
The structure of the forum will be centered around a series of moderated panel discussions on various Springsteen-related topics, allowing the audience to hear from and interact with a variety of authors and scholars. As of this writing, the confirmed panelists who will be in attendance are:
Jim Beviglia, Author, Counting Down Bruce Springsteen: His 100 Finest Songs
Kenneth Campbell, Monmouth University, Author, “Bruce Springsteen, Songs From The Rising, Introduction” to published in Western Civilization in a Global Context: The Modern – Sources and Documents.
Jonathan D. Cohen, University of Virginia, Managing Editor, BOSS: The Bi-Annual Online Journal of Springsteen Studies
Donna M. Dolphin, Monmouth University, Contributor, Bruce Springsteen, Cultural Studies, and the Runaway American Dream and Associate Producer, Asbury Park Musical Memories Part 1
Stan Goldstein, Co-Author, Rock & Roll Tour of the Jersey Shore and Blogger, NJ.com
Jean Mikle, Co-Author, Rock & Roll Tour of the Jersey Shore and Contributor, Asbury Park Press
Marianne Murawski, Stockton College, Contributor, Bruce Springsteen and the American Soul
Christopher Phillips, Editor/Publisher, Backstreets Magazine & Backstreets.com and Co-Editor, Talk About A Dream: The Essential Interviews of Bruce Springsteen
Shawn Poole, Contributor, Backstreets Magazine & Backstreets.com
Holly Cara Price, Contributor, Huffington Post and BruceSpringsteen.net
Linda K. Randall, Author, Finding Grace in the Concert Hall: Community & Meaning Among Springsteen Fans
Barry Schneier, Photographer, Monmouth University Exhibition – Glory Bound – Photographs by Barry Schneier
Special Group Panel of Authors and Co-Publishers of the forthcoming anthology Trouble In The Heartland: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen – Jamez Chang, Jen Conley, Mark Krajnak, James Petersen and Chuck Regan
William I. Wolff, Rowan University, Contributor, BOSS: The Bi-Annual Online Journal of Springsteen Studies
Azzan Yadin-Israel, Rutgers University, Course Designer/Instructor, Bruce Springsteen’s Theology
Panel topics, as well as more authors and scholars, will be announced as they are confirmed. Topics currently under consideration include “Bruce Springsteen’s Evolving Relationship With His Audience(s),” “Springsteen’s Best Songs,” “Springsteen & Live Performance,” “Springsteen & Media Through the Years,” etc.
Panel topics, as well as more authors and scholars, will be announced as they are confirmed. Topics currently under consideration include “Bruce Springsteen’s Evolving Relationship With His Audience(s),” “Springsteen’s Best Songs,” “Springsteen & Live Performance,” “Springsteen & Media Through the Years,” etc.
Among our confirmed panel moderators is broadcaster Tom Cunningham, creator and host of the long-running weekly Springsteen-themed radio program The Bruce Brunch on 105.7 The Hawk (WCHR-FM.)
There will be time and space allotted for authors’ book sales/signings.
The day’s agenda also will include several live performances of Springsteen’s music by students from Monmouth University and Asbury Park, NJ’s Lakehouse Music Academy.
All ticket-sale proceeds will benefit Monmouth University and Friends of
The Bruce Springsteen Special Collection.
In celebration of Bruce Springsteen’s 65th birthday, Friends of The Bruce Springsteen Special Collection and Monmouth University will host an exciting evening of films presented by Thom Zimny celebrating Bruce Springsteen.
Thom
Zimny has served as Bruce Springsteen’s film/video archivist and collaborator
since 2001. During that time, Zimny has produced, directed and/or edited many
of Springsteen’s award-winning music-videos, concert films and documentaries,
including Bruce Springsteen & The E
Street Band: Live in New York City, Live
in Barcelona, Wings For Wheels – The
Making of Born To Run, Hammersmith
Odeon London ’75, Bruce Springsteen
with The Sessions Band Live in Dublin,
London Calling – Live in Hyde Park,
The Promise – The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, music-videos for “Radio
Nowhere”, “A Night With The Jersey Devil”, “The Wrestler”, “Dream Baby Dream”,
“High Hopes” and the recently released short film Hunter of Invisible Game (co-directed with Springsteen himself.)
For this unique celebratory evening,
Zimny is “digging deep” into the Springsteen film/video archives for a rare
big-screen presentation. He’ll be bringing some treats from the vault and
showing all of his selections with high-quality visuals and sound using Pollak
Theatre’s state-of-the-art projection system. Suffice it to say that if you are
a Springsteen fan, you won’t want to miss this special night.
All ticket-sale proceeds will benefit Monmouth University and Friends of The Bruce Springsteen Special Collection.
PLEASE NOTE: This concert will take place as scheduled.
On Thanksgiving Eve, some of New Jersey’s finest entertainers will get together at the Pollak Theater to share the music of Van Morrison with their friends. Enjoy the mystical compositions of one of the most influential and unusual artists of our time as performed by legendary front man Rob Paparozzi (Original Blues Brothers Band, Blood Sweat ‘n Tears ) and Master Song Stylist Pat Guadagno (BobFest, The Candle Brothers ). The all-star band will include Steven Socrates Delopoulos (Burlap to Cashmere) Irish Tenor Steve Reilly, Michael Ghegan (Michael Jackson Cirque de Soleil) and a host of other surprise guests. Put the Turkey in the oven, and bring the family, just don’t miss this transcendental experience. You will be healed!
Tickets on sale Oct. 6
A wise man once said it’s better to burn out than fade away, and on Thanksgiving Day of 1976, one of the best live acts of the rock era went out in a blaze of glory.
Glen Burtnik, Salvatore Boyd, Bob Burger & Arne Wendt, performing as The Band. They will be joined on stage by a cast of artists, including Southside Johnny, Pat Guadagno, Bobby Banderia, Kate Taylor, Bruce Gassman, Frank Puggy DeRosa, Matt Wade, Stringbean Sorenson, Frank Lombardi, Anthony D’Amato, Emily Grove, Nick Foster, Tommy LaBella, Taylor Hope and more, to bring us on a musical journey back in time to the fall of 1976.
A Burtnik/Boyd Production
A limited edition 20” x 30” print taken by photographer Barry Schneier at the historic May 9, 1974
Bruce Springsteen concert at the Harvard Square Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts is up for auction!
This print will be signed by the photographer and numbered 1/100. This is a Silver GEL Photograph with archival framing and the highest quality museum glass. A certificate of authenticity will be included with purchase.
Proceeds will benefit the Monmouth University Bruce Springsteen Archives.
This online auction will begin on Springsteen’s Birthday, September 23, 2014 and close October 27, 2014.
To bid click here
