Posted in Music from the Broadway stage., Ocean Grove events, Ocean Grove lifestyle, Ocean Grove photographs, tagged Ladies Auxiliary has a Bazaar, Ladies Auxiliary of Ocean Grove on July 22, 2023|
The OG Aux. has an estimated 400 female members. Paul Goldfinger photo ©. 7/25/15.
Low prices rule. Big crowd in attendance on Saturday, the last day of the bazaar. Women shoppers outnumber men 100:1. Paul Goldfinger photo. ©
FOLLIES. Stephen Sondheim. New Broadway Cast album. “Who’s That Woman?”
Posted in Music from the Broadway stage., Music from the movies, tagged Etruscan horse in Ocean Grove on June 21, 2023|
Etruscan Horse by Jo Ubogy. 113 Mt. Hermon Way, Ocean Grove. Blogfinger photo. Re-posted from 2015. On exhibit at Eileen’s garden; Walk on by.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
The Etruscans were one of the first groups to populate the western Mediterranean. They arrived around 500 BC and settled north of Rome in the area now known as Tuscany. They are a bit mysterious, but some of their tombs and artwork from ancient times have been found. They were known to the Greeks and the Romans.
Etruscans did have horses and they viewed them as creatures of strength and power. Ancient artists depicted Etruscan horses as proud creatures. Jo Ubogy is a 75 year old artist from Connecticut who, back in the 1980’s, was working as a metal sculptor. I never met her, but I spoke to her by phone. She is still showing her art work, but she has stopped her large metal sculpting.
We were fascinated by her—a woman working with large heavy pieces of steel, welding them together in her studio and making them for outdoors showing. She reminded me of Rosie the riveter from WWII days when women worked in shipyards and airplane factories. There are many photographs of those women in overalls, climbing up on the wings of bombers or riveting in the hulls of destroyers, with their hair held back by colorful cloth kerchiefs.
We saw Jo Ubogy’s Etruscan Horse , 6 feet tall, at a small charming indoor-outdoor gallery on Long Beach Island, in Loveladies, NJ back around 1985. The artist didn’t explain her inspiration, but clearly she knew something about Etruscans, and this sculpture was the result—-a red horse with its roots in antiquity but with a contemporary flair.
For years the horse lived in our backyard in Chester surrounded by fields and woods. It was outdoors in snow and rain, but it always stood tall providing a place to land for migrating birds. Eventually, when we moved to Ocean Grove, we didn’t think we could use the horse in our tiny rear garden. So, we had it refurbished by craftsmen in the Grove and then repainted with an automobile quality paint job, and we tried to match the color precisely.
After that, for about 10 years, it was on display at the Jersey Shore Arts Center in Ocean Grove. So it was indoors all that time, not exactly the environment that it was meant for. But now we decided that it could work in our backyard, so the Etruscan Horse is home again where it can be admired by all. It will be on display all year.
BLOSSOM DEARIE with a horsey tune from Oklahoma.
SEAL: “Walk on By” and see the horse in our backyard.
Posted in Music from the Broadway stage., Music from the movies, tagged Music from the King and I on June 21, 2023|
By Paul Goldfinger, music editor @Blogfinger
“Something Wonderful” is from The King and I. Carly Simon has a YouTube video where she addresses the women in the audience and asks them to think of these lyrics when they are upset with their man. Carly says this song is one of the most beautiful ever written. It was composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
The version here is performed by Peggy Lee. It was probably recorded in the 1950’s. She was a popular singer who was not particularly known for this song. Listen for the strong bass parts towards the end which add drama and are probably by the trombone section . Also there is a soft oriental gong at the very end–a tip of the hat to The King and I.
A 2 CD collection of Peggy’s music, 40 songs, called “Something Wonderful: Peggy Lee sings the Great American Songbook” was published in 2021 to coincide with a documentary about her.
Peggy Lee also was a lyricist for many hit songs, and, as a doctor, I always enjoyed her rendition of “Fever.” And as a man, I always enjoyed her rendition of “Fever.”
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Music from the Broadway stage., Music: Jazz on Blogfinger, Photography: Nocturnal Ocean Grove, tagged Blogfinger photo of the year 2013, music from Miss Saigon on April 18, 2023|
Ocean Grove. Summer, 2013. By Paul Goldfinger Blogfinger.net
LEA SALONGA: “Sun and Moon” From Miss Saigon
Posted in Crime in Ocean Grove, Music from the Broadway stage., Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, tagged MUSIC: Fiorello, Neptune Township Police Department on April 6, 2023|
September 11, 2011. Paul Goldfinger photo. Auditorium Park in Ocean Grove, NJ.
The Neptune Police is said to have a presence in Ocean Grove 24 hours per day. You may not see them, but undercover work is part of their tool box.
FIORELLO. The original Broadway cast:
Posted in Music from the Broadway stage., tagged My ship by Grady Tate, Rough landing at the Shark River on January 27, 2023| 1 Comment »
Across the street from the Shark River Marina. A lone survivor from Sandy 2012. By Paul Goldfinger. © Click for larger version.
GRADY TATE. “My Ship.” From his album Feeling Life. (Composer Kurt Weill for the 1941 musical “Lady in the Dark.”)
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Music from the Broadway stage., Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove on December 22, 2022|
Ocean Grove. Aerial view by Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge
Every summer, the day after Labor Day, the town of Ocean Grove, as we have known it all summer long, suddenly disappears, and another version takes its place. It’s magic like the story of Brigadoon.
Here are Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy with “The Heather on the Hill.” –Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
Posted in Music from the Broadway stage., tagged Rainy weather in Princeton on November 18, 2022|
Princeton University Campus. Paul Goldfinger photo. click to enlarge
BERNADETTE PETERS with Stephen Sondheim’s “Raining in my Heart.” (live)
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Music from the Broadway stage., Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, tagged Kristin Chenoweth on Blogfinger on October 6, 2022| 1 Comment »
Sapphire Beach, St. Thomas, USVI. Paul Goldfinger photo ©
KRISTIN CHENOWETH and SEAN HAYES from the Broadway score of Promises, Promises.
Posted in Music from the Broadway stage., Ocean Grove photographs, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, tagged Painting the Ocean Grove tents for spring on May 17, 2022| 2 Comments »
Ocean Grove. April, 2014. Jean Bredin photograph © click on photo to enlarge.
VALERIE MASTERSON: Soundtrack of the movie “QUARTET”: “The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring.”
Gilbert, W.S.
Posted in Music from the Broadway stage., Music from the stage, Photographic Gallery France, Photographic Gallery, Color, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography Gallery France, tagged La Cage au folles, Luxembourg Gardens, Paris gardens on December 18, 2021|
Left Bank, Paris. c. 1998. By Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge
KELSEY GRAMMER AND DOUGLAS HODGE. “Song on the Sand.” From La Cage Aux Folles. Broadway cast album.
Posted in Music from the Broadway stage., Ocean Grove photographs, tagged Music by Fats Waller and Andy Razaf, The Tent Walker photo on September 13, 2021|
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Music from the Broadway stage., Music from the movies, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, tagged Asbur Park farmers market, Asbury carousel building on August 13, 2021|
Asbury Park, 2013. By Paul Goldfinger ©. Click to enlarge. The Carousel building.
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