Xian Zhang conducts the NJSO in Romeo and Juliet
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"This music is really visual–it just fills you with emotions, and love."
This week on your PBS stations, meet Xian Zhang, the conductor and music director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, as she conducts and discusses her January 2020 NJPAC performance of music from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.
Also on this week's episode,Greensboro: A Requiem at 40, and artist German Pitre.
Sat, 10/23 @ 7:30 pm
Thurs, 10/28 @ 11:30 pm
Sun, 10/24 @ 11:30 am
Mon, 10/25 @ 10:30 am & 3:30 pm
Wed, 10/27 @ 10 am & 3 pm
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The Princeton Environmental Film Festival |
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Bob Williams of Pine Creek Forestry, who acted as artist Maya Lin's guide in the Pine Barrens as she prepared her NYC installation Ghost Forest.
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The Princeton Public Library presents this year's annual Princeton Environmental Film Festival, running from Oct 12-24. Three State of the Arts features are included this year in the "Made in NJ" category—check out the schedule for these and more!
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Maria Mazziotti Gillan at Paterson Falls
Photo: Mark Hillringhouse
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What are you reading this month? Throughout October, we're sharing profiles of some of the authors we've featured over the years.
The heartfelt work of poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan is deeply rooted in her childhood memories of Paterson, New Jersey. She grew up in an Italian immigrant neighborhood, learning English only after starting school. The author of over 20 books by and about poetry, her most recent are Paterson Light and Shadow, a 2017 collaboration with photographer Mark Hillringhouse, and her 2021 collection When the Stars Were Still Visible. Maria received the 2008 American Book Award for her poetry collection All That Lies Between Us.
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The Montclair Film Festival is back this month! Tickets are available now for this year's celebration of cinema, which runs through Oct 30. The festival includes both in-person and virtual screenings.
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Catch up on some of the best of State of the Arts
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Adolf Konrad was born in Bremen, Germany in 1915; he died in 2003. The family settled in Newark, where young Adolf studied at the Newark School of Fine Arts. He would later become a favorite of the Newark Museum, fondly known as the painter laureate of New Jersey’s largest city.
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At the Bickford Theater in Morristown, “Healing Voices OnStage: Caregivers Stories” brought together real stories about caregiving, written by caregivers, and produced by a team of professional directors and actors.
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Meet the author of Boardwalk Empire, Nelson Johnson. His New York Times Best-Selling book inspired HBO’s hit series. But, guess what? There are some curious differences between Johnson’s historical account of “Nucky” Johnson and HBO’s fictionalized “Nucky” Thompson!
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Producers Circle:
Peter A. Benoliel & Willo Carey
W. Carl Burger
Melanie & John Clarke
Philip E. Lian & Joan L. Mueller
Richard & Xandra E. Nosarzewski
Pheasant Hill Foundation
Judith M. Scheide
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