MASTERFUL DIRECTION…Maestro David Wroe conducts the NJ Festival Orchestra with an arrangement of Porgy and Bess. At the backyard gardens of Keith Hertell, president of the organization, the Sunday, August 20th concert had an idyllic setting for the fifth outdoor concert the group has presented. Susan M. Dougherty for The Westfield Leader and Union County HAWK
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NJFO’s Summer Fantasies Under the Stars Thrills
WESTFIELD – What does the word “fantasy” evoke? On a warm summer evening in late August at the backyard Hertell Gardens in Westfield, it meant a perfect night of symphonic instrumental music and a vocal master. The 250th presentation of the group with their “Summertime Folk Fantasies” delighted a packed crowd with music byAaron Copland, George Gershwin, and Frederick Delius.