Attend: Music & Film

Timothy Urban, professor of music at Rider University, discusses the details of Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Hollander” and the precedents it set forth for subsequent operas. With no passports, fleeing from creditors with his pregnant wife, Wagner took passage on a ship sailing from Riga to London. High seas and stormy...

Critics have called this 1941 drama starring and directed by Orson Welles the greatest film ever made.  Told in flashbacks as reporters try to discover the meaning of the final utterance of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, the film examines the life and legacy of the character that was loosely based on William Randolph Hearst...

Members of the Central Jersey Dance Society will lead bimonthly, three-hour sessions of dancing to recorded music of all kinds.  While not providing formal lessons, members of the society will demonstrate some of the basic steps to many of the ballroom and modern dances.

Consponsored by the library and the Central Jersey...

Jeffrey Swann, professor of piano studies, NYU-Steinhardt, explores how and why Richard Wagner made the enormous leap forward from “Rienzi” to “Der fliegende Holländer.” Swann is an internationally acclaimed pianist, composer and Wagner expert who presents lecture-recitals worldwide. He will illustrate his...