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Paul Lachenauer for The Westfield Leader and The TimesLUNCH TIME!..Native-American dancers break for lunch at Union County’s Harvest Festival on Sunday at the TrailsideNature and Science Center in Mountainside.

Oratorio Singers Prepare forSeason With New Selections

ALJ Hosts StrawberryFields to Benefit SusanSatriano FoundationCLARK — The Key Club of Arthur

L. Johnson High School will presentthe premier Beatles tribute band, Straw-berry Fields, on Friday, October 19, at8 p.m. at the high school, located at 365Westfield Avenue in Clark. Tickets are$25. Group discounts are available.

Proceeds from the event will ben-efit the Susan Satriano Foundation.

When Joe Satriano’s wife, Susan,succumbed to cancer, he establisheda legacy of love through this 501(c)(3)organization, sustained by benefitperformances such as this. To date,the Susan Satriano Foundation hasawarded over $150,000 in highereducation scholarships to worthy re-cipients.

Strawberry Fields is a popularBeatles tribute band that has wonawards in Beatlemania competitions.They were chosen to play at SheaStadium in 2005 to honor the 40thanniversary of the Beatles’ perfor-mance there. They can be seen everySaturday at noon at B.B. King’s inTimes Square, N.Y.C.

For tickets, contact Ellen Zamboni,Key Club Advisor at (732) 382-0910,or purchase on the Susan SatrianoFoundation website,susansatrianofoundation.com.

Secrets of GardeningRevealed at Trailside

WESTFIELD — The 70 voice Ora-torio Singers of Westfield, under thedirection of organist, composer andchoir director Trent Johnson, willbegin preparations for their 33rd con-cert season with two workshops onSaturdays, October 13 and Novem-ber 10, both from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. inthe choir room of the First UnitedMethodist Church, 1 East BroadStreet in Westfield. Future workshopsand part rehearsals are also plannedto further polish singers’ skills.

The workshops are designed tointroduce the selected works and com-posers to established and potentialsingers. They are relaxed “first hear-ing” rehearsals which will lead toregular rehearsals beginning Mon-day, January 7, 2013, from 7:30 p.m.to 9:30 p.m. leading to the concert onMarch 17, 2013, in the sanctuary ofthe Westfield First United MethodistChurch.

For years, concert-goers have been

treated to works involving full or-chestra and soloists. However, for the2013 concert, Maestro Johnson hasplanned music featuring chorus, brassensembles, percussion and organ.Composers will include GiovanniGabrieli, C. Hubert H. Parry, RandallThompson, Ralph Vaughan Williamsand Mack Wilberg.

The two major works on the pro-gram will be Mr. Thompson’s “AFeast of Praise” and Mr. Wilberg’s“Tres Cantus Laudendi.”

Mack Wilberg has emerged as oneof the pre-eminent composers andarrangers of choral music in theUnited States today. His sublime ar-rangements and compositions arebeing performed by choirs and or-chestras around the world to greatacclaim. Mr. Wilberg’s “Tres CantusLaudendi” is contemporary and willexpose a really interesting music style.

American composer Randall Th-ompson, famous for his anthems “Al-leluia” and “The Last Words of David”and the cantata, “Testament of Free-dom,” created “A Feast of Praise,”which speaks of the stars, the trum-pet in the new moon and singingpraises to God.

The thrilling sounds of brass, per-cussion and pipe organ combinedwith massed voices raised in song ina large space make singing in theOratorio chorus a memorable event.The Oratorio Singers always wel-come new singers, including stu-dents in high school or college, in allvoice ranges, especially tenors andbasses. Singers are asked to pur-chase the music, bring pencils to re-hearsals, take director’s notes and beready to have fun making great mu-sic.

For information call Janet at (908)656-7418 or Jack at (908) 889-5696.Or visitoratoriosingerswestfield.org.

Valerie Sudol

MOUNTAINSIDE – In a presenta-tion titled “Garden Secrets,” award-winning gardening columnist ValerieSudol will share the myths and factsbehind a successful garden at UnionCounty’s Trailside Natureand Science Center inMountainside on Wednes-day, October 17, at 7 p.m.The event includes a ques-tion-and-answer session andis open to the public. Anadmission fee of $5 per per-son will be collected at thedoor.

Garden Secrets is spon-sored by the Rutgers Master Garden-ers of Union County and The ReevesReed Arboretum.

Ms. Sudol is a career journalist whois well known for her work with TheStar-Ledger, for which she helpedlaunch the award-winning Home andGarden section. Along with featurestories, her weekly Garden Diary col-umn covered gardening, nature, landstewardship and related topics andwas twice nominated for a PulitzerPrize.

Ms. Sudol has been recognized forher involvement in horticultural ac-tivities throughout New Jersey andshe continues to contribute to the Led-ger and its lifestyle magazine, InsideJersey, as well as other websites andpublications including The AsburyPark Press.

The Rutgers Master Gardeners ofUnion County is a volunteer groupaffiliated with the Rutgers Coopera-tive Extension, supported in part bythe Union County Board of ChosenFreeholders. One of many Master Gar-deners community service projects iscultivation of the Demonstration Gar-dens, located behind the Trailside Na-ture and Science Center. Garden-grown vegetables, fruit and herbs aredonated to food pantries and flowersare donated to local cancer centersand hospitals.

For more information about theGarden Secrets event or to find outhow to become a certified MasterGardener, call the Extension offices at

(908) 654-9854.Trailside is Union County’s ature

museum and education resource,serving thousands of Union Countyresidents and visitors each year. Lo-

cated in the County’sWatchung Reservation at452 New Providence Roadin Mountainside, it is openseven days a week exceptfor holidays.

For information on allevents and programs atTrailside, call (908) 789-3670 or visit the UnionCounty website,

ucnj.org.

Kean Stage Presents TheNational Symphony Of Cuba

UNION — Kean Stage will presentThe National Symphony Of Cuba onSunday, October 28, at 3 p.m. in theWilkins Theatre at Kean University.

Experience an evening of strikingmusic and auditory bliss. The Na-tional Symphony Orchestra of Cubahas been instrumental in developingand introducing Cuban and LatinAmerican music to the internationalclassical music community, in addi-tion to covering a vast symphonic andchamber repertoire ranging from ba-roque to contemporary since 1960.

Featuring world-renowned pianistNachito Herrera, this phenomenalorchestra’s repertoire will include tra-

ditional Western European works byMendelssohn, Schubert, Prokofiev andGershwin’s Cuban Overture. The Or-chestra will also include such interna-tionally known works as theGuaguanco by composer GuidoLopez-Gavilan, who also will con-duct, and Ernesto Lecuona’sMalagueña.

Tickets are $30 for the general pub-lic; $20 for seniors and children.

Kean University is located at 1000Morris Avenue in Union. Tickets areavailable at the Wilkins Theatre BoxOffice, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union,or by calling (908) 737-SHOW (7469),and online at www.keanstage.com.

The Town Book StoreHosts Author Tagliareni

WESTFIELD - The Town BookStore will be hosting former Westfieldresident Salvatore Tagliareni, authorof the novel, “Hitler’s Priest,” on Sat-urday, October 6, from 2 to 4 p.m.

At the heart of novel is Hans Keller,a highly intelligent architect and athe-ist. A chance meeting with JosefGoebbels, a charismatic leading fig-ure in the burgeoning Nazi Party, placesKeller on a path that will offer him akey role in shaping the future of NaziGermany—by providing influencewithin the Catholic Church. Inter-twined with this tale is the story of thePittelli family, hard-working Italianswho find themselves caught up in themonumental events of the period.

S. J. Tagliareni is a story teller, busi-ness consultant, art dealer and formerCatholic priest. During his doctoralstudies he was blessed with the oppor-tunity to study with Dr. Viktor Frankl,author of “Man’s Search for Mean-ing.”

Meet Sal Tagliareni at The TownBook Store located at 270 East BroadStreet in Westfield (corner of EastBroad and Elmer Streets). Those un-able to attend this event, can call TheTown Book Store at (908) 233-3535to reserve an autographed copy of hisbook.

Performers Announced forFanwood Performance Series

FANWOOD – Eric Harrison willopen October’s Fanwood PerformanceSeries show on Saturday, October 13,at 7 p.m. at the Patricia M. KuranCultural Center located at 75 NorthMartine Avenue.

Eric is a singer-songwriter fromFanwood who has released eight al-bums on his own label. His most obvi-ous influences are his two biggest he-roes, Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello.Twenty years of performing in packedclubs and empty coffee houses alikehave molded Eric into an exciting liveperformer with a sense of humility andhumor rarely seen in the crowded fieldof (over-) sensitive singer-songwriters.

For much more information, visitericharrisonmusic.com.

Headlining Saturday night will beRoia Rafieyan, a performer who playedthe very first show back in 1999. Shewas so well liked the audience broughther back for an encore performance.

Roia has the vocal stylings of a CaroleKing or a Joni Mitchell and the quirkysongwriting style of a Christine Lavinor a Dar Williams. Despite her kvetchingwhile at the microphone (it is all part ofthe act), she is a beacon of positiveenergy in a bleak world. Roia haslearned a valuable lesson in life stating,“If you can’t laugh at yourself, then forGod’s sake pay a therapist until youcan, because you ought to be able to bynow!”Visit her website atriaomusic.com.

There will be refreshments for sale,during the intermissions. Snapple willbe providing beverages and Nick’sPizza and Deli will be adding some oftheir favorite appetizers and pizzasamples to the usual home-made cook-ies and other treats.

Experience great performances

in a historic setting right in yourown back yard. Suggested dona-tion is $10, $5 for seniors and stu-dents.

For more information on theFanwood Cultural Arts PerformanceSeries, visitfanwoodperformanceseries.org.

Eric Harrison