Jersey Arts Podcast

Ocean City Pops concerts at the historic Ocean City Music Pier, built in 1929, are a much loved summer tradition at the the Jersey Shore. Producer Eric Schultz talks with the Pops veteran conductor William Scheible, now in his 26th season as Artistic Director. The orchestra performs 3 evenings a week all summer long, with music as varied as Mozart, Sinatra, Broadway tunes, and much more.

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Discover Jersey Arts is presented by ArtPride New Jersey. The program was co-founded by, and is currently supported by funds from, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

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The musician John Wesley Harding is also the novelist Wesley Stace. As host of the new NPR variety show "The Cabinet of Wonders," he calls on his friends from both worlds to perform. Rosanne Cash, Josh Ritter, and the Decemberists have all been on the show, as well as Audrey Niffenegger, author of "The Time Traveler's Wife," and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Paul Harding. Producer Susan Wallner talked to John Wesley Harding about his many interests, and the evolution of his new show in advance of a special on-the-road edition of "The Cabinet of Wonders" to be taped live at the Xponential Festival on July 22nd.

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Discover Jersey Arts is presented by ArtPride New Jersey. The program was co-founded by, and is currently supported by funds from, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

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Christopher Benincasa talks to Father Michael Doyle, of Camden's Sacred Heart Church, about the up-and-coming Waterfront South neighborhood - and the legacy of American Haiku poet, and Camden native, Nick Virgilio. Father Doyle and the church have been instrumental in helping to establish the South Camden Theatre Company - the first theatre to be built in Camden in 100 years - a thriving community garden and greenhouse, and the Nick Virgilio Haiku Society.

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Discover Jersey Arts is presented by ArtPride New Jersey. The program was co-founded by, and is currently supported by funds from, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

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The American Boy Choir, celebrating its 75th anniversary, has performed at the Oscars, with pop diva Beyoncé and with major orchestras around the world. Producer Eric Schultz recently visited the bucolic campus of the American Boy Choir School in Princeton, NJ to chat with President and CEO Dean Orton and Assistant Music Director Kerry Heimann about the choir's extraordinary history.

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Susan Wallner talks to one of the luminaries of the English speaking theater world, playwright John Guare. He’s won Tonys, Obies, and NY Drama Critics Circle Awards, as well as an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of Louis Malle’s “Atlantic City.” Guare’s newest play, “Are You There, McPhee?” has its world premiere at the McCarter Theatre in May. It’s his fourth play to be set on the island of Nantucket, a place Guare acknowledges as key to his own identity as a playwright and person.

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Christopher Benincasa speaks with Eran Egozy and Gary Marcus at The Music, Mind & Invention Workshop at The College of New Jersey. Egozy is co-founder of Harmonix Music Systems, and one of the creators of the phenomenally popular games Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Gary Marcus is Professor of Psychology and Director of the NYU Center for Language & Music, and he recently wrote the book Guitar Zero: The New Musician and The Science of Learning.

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Chris interviews veteran television writer Winnie Holzman - creator of the series My So-called Life, and librettist for the hit Broadway musical Wicked. Holzman recently kicked off a series of talks at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. The series concludes with a Musical Theatre Symposium, "Making Broadway Musicals: Artists and Scholars in Conversation".

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Christopher Benincasa talks with curator Donna Gustafson about fifty years of Fluxus at Rutgers University. Fluxus was a radical and experimental art movement that started in the sixties and involved a group of Rutgers faculty members. The exhibit "art/around/beyond: Fluxus at Rutgers" is on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick through April 1.

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Discover Jersey Arts is presented by ArtPride New Jersey. The program was co-founded by, and is currently supported by funds from, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

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Young playwright Danai Gurira first made waves with “Eclipsed,” her play about 5 young Liberian women during that country’s civil war. She is now writing a cycle of plays about Zimbabwe and Zimbabwean identity. Part one, “The Convert,” premieres at the McCarter Theatre January 13th to February 12th. It starts at the beginning, during the first black/white conflict in 1895, with the story of Jekesai (aka Ester), a young village girl who escapes a forced marriage by embracing Christianity. Susan Wallner talks to Gurira about the play and about her own experience as a “ZimAmerican.”

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The Jersey Arts Podcast is one medium of Feature Stories on Discover Jersey Arts (jerseyarts.com), where articles and videos also cover New Jersey’s vibrant arts and entertainment scene.

Discover Jersey Arts is presented by ArtPride New Jersey. The program was co-founded by, and is currently supported by funds from, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

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Producer Eric Schultz visits comic artist, painter, illustrator and author Daves Devries at his Budd Lake, NJ home. In 1998, Devries asked the question, what would a child's drawing look like if it were painted realistically? The answer is The Monster Engine, and a book, gallery exhibitions, lectures and a website that went viral in its first month with over 17 million hits followed. For more on Dave Devries, check out his website.

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The Jersey Arts Podcast is one medium of Feature Stories on Discover Jersey Arts (jerseyarts.com), where articles and videos also cover New Jersey’s vibrant arts and entertainment scene.

Discover Jersey Arts is presented by ArtPride New Jersey. The program was co-founded by, and is currently supported by funds from, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

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