Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Dec. 30, 2020)
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
First Night Morris County, for one, was planning to celebrate its 29th year of offering an alternate “alcohol-free and substance-free celebration of arts and culture” with live events throughout downtown Morristown on New Year’s Eve.
Instead, it will aim its efforts toward the internet with “First Night Reimagined,” a virtual celebration beginning 5:40 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 31, with more than 40 streamed and on-demand programs by 21 acts.
Passes start at $15 and will provide access to all the events as they’re posted and on-demand through Jan. 3. The lineup even will include “virtual fireworks” at 9 and 11:50 p.m. tomorrow.
A baritone finds a safe way choirs can sing together again: over car radios Richard Read
Baritone-for-hire David Newman was looking forward to a year of singing gigs.
Then, in March, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, two members of a choir in Washington state died, and dozens more fell ill after their two-hour practice became a super-spreader event.
Concerts were quickly wiped from calendars around the world. The piercing irony of having to cancel is that the joy this music brings is what we now as a culture need more than ever, said an email Newman received from Wisconsin s Madison Bach Musicians.
Baritone-for-hire David Newman was looking forward to a year of singing gigs.
Then, in March, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, two members of a choir in Washington state died, and dozens more fell ill after their two-hour practice became a super-spreader event.
Concerts were quickly wiped from calendars around the world.
“The piercing irony of having to cancel is that the joy this music brings is what we now as a culture need more than ever,” said an email Newman received from Wisconsin’s Madison Bach Musicians.
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Singing had been the centerpiece of his life. It got him through high school and into Westminster Choir College, a music school in New Jersey, where he majored in vocal performance.
A baritone finds a safe way choirs can sing together again: over car radios [Los Angeles Times]
Baritone-for-hire David Newman was looking forward to a year of singing gigs.
Then, in March, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, two members of a choir in Washington state died, and dozens more fell ill after their two-hour practice became a super-spreader event.
Concerts were quickly wiped from calendars around the world.
“The piercing irony of having to cancel is that the joy this music brings is what we now as a culture need more than ever,” said an email Newman received from Wisconsin’s Madison Bach Musicians.
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Dec. 23, 2020)
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
The coronavirus clipped the wings on a planned multi-act Eagles tribute concert this summer at Sinatra Park in Hoboken, so its organizers have opted to post the show online as a holiday treat.
ALEOproduction and the City of Hoboken will present “The (Virtual) Eagles Engagement” 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 26, on the city’s Facebook page, with a repeat viewing 9 p.m. on ALEOproduction’s YouTube page.
The concert will include interpretations of eight Eagles songs, such as “Take It to the Limit,” “One of These Nights,” “Already Gone” and “Peaceful, Easy Feeling.”