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The Great Auditorium. Paul Goldfinger photo. 12/13/14. ©

The Great Auditorium. Paul Goldfinger photo. 12/13/14. ©

 

SHE and HIM:    “The Christmas Waltz.”   From the album A Very She and Him Christmas.   In three quarter time.

 

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By Paul Goldfinger © Autumn View from inside the GA 2013

By Paul Goldfinger © Autumn View from inside the Great Auditorium 2013

 

 

ELIZABETH GANTER.   Mozart’s “Clarinet Concerto in A Major.”   Gordon Turk, please bring this to the Great Auditorium.

 

 

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Great Auditorium, interior. By Paul Goldfinger. © 2014

The Greatest  Auditorium, interior. Ocean Grove.  By Paul Goldfinger. © 2014

LADY ANTEBELLUM

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Choir Festival in the Great Auditorium. By Paul Goldfinger. © To order metallic coated professionally made prints, contact Blogfinger@verizon.net. Choir Festival in the Great Auditorium. By Paul Goldfinger. ©  Undated.

 

We have learned from a CMA official that the events mentioned above will return this season “as they were before the pandemic.”

We don’t know if that means no distancing, masks, etc, but there will still be some constraints coming from Trenton this summer.

However, this is good news assuming it is all done according to Health Dept. guidelines.

 

THE FIREBIRDS:

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The Great Auditorium of Ocean Grove.  Getting ready to perform Mendelssohn’s “Elijah,” conducted by Jason Tramm.   August 28, 2016. The musicians are from the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra.  Paul Goldfinger photo. ©  Click to enlarge.

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net

Here is a link to the Blogfinger article about this 2016  concert.  Kudos to the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association for making such remarkable events possible in our town.  The link below has a photo gallery of Marvelous Mendelssohn brought to life by Maestro Jason Tramm, the musicians, and the choir.

Elijah in the Great Auditorium

STEPHEN DOUGHTY     Elijah Part 2.  “He, watching over Israel, slumbers not.”

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Ocean Grove Great Auditorium.  Feb 4, 2016. By Jean Bredin ©

Ocean Grove Great Auditorium. Feb 4, 2016. By Jean Bredin ©

“..taking my walk around town was pretty quiet….I decided to walk past the Great Auditorium…John was working on removing debris from the section under the roof…I am happy he was wearing a safety cable!”      by Jean Bredin.

LAURA NYRO:

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Great Auditorium. May 19, 2015.  Paul Goldfinger photograph.

Great Auditorium. May 19, 2015. Paul Goldfinger photograph.

MAROON FIVE

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June, 2011. By Paul Goldfinger ©

June, 2011. By Paul Goldfinger ©

BUDAPEST STRINGS:  “Sinfonia” from Handel’s Salomon, Act III.  (featured in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral)

Editor’s Note:   Don’t forget the Summer Stars Classical Series:  Thursdays in July at 7:30 pm in the Great Auditorium beginning on July 2 with the Imperial Brass, featuring special guest Ocean Grove’s Phil Smith  (If you love brass music, this concert is not to be missed.)

The Summer Stars Classical series is wonderful and a great bargain at $16.00 for a single ticket or $75.00 for the series of 5  (plus fees.)  It’s even cheaper than getting grass stains on your shorts while sitting on the lawn at Tanglewood. —-PG

 

 

 

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Law Enforcement Memorial Service, May, 2014.  Paul Goldfinger photo. ©

Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, Neptune High School, January 9, 2015. . Paul Goldfinger photo. ©

Memorial service in the Great Auditorium, May, 2013.  Paul Goldfinger photo. ©

Memorial service in the Great Auditorium, May, 2013. Paul Goldfinger photo. ©

In 2014, police across the country received accelerated criticism when the Ferguson, Missouri situation erupted last August.  There were riots there at that time and again in November 2014.

On january 9,  2015 there was a police appreciation event at Neptune High School.   We reported on that assembly and we discussed how the press and some of the public across the US had been turning on the police. A number of speakers at the  Neptune event  mentioned the issues, and we quoted them. Here is a link to that article or you can read it below.:

BF report on Law Enforcement Appreciation Day Jan 9, 2015.

Subsequently there were further Ferguson eruptions in March, 2015 after the ruling by the Justice Department.  The AP reported that:  “The Justice Department won’t prosecute a Ferguson, Missouri police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old, but in a scathing report faulted the city and its law enforcement for racial bias.”

This is the gist of that Ferguson PD report:   “In March 2015, the U.S. Justice Department announced that they had determined that the Ferguson PD had engaged in misconduct against the citizenry of Ferguson, by discriminating against African-Americans and applying racial stereotypes, in a “pattern or practice of unlawful conduct.”

Next Tuesday, May 19, 2015, the 31st Annual New Jersey Law Enforcement Memorial Service will take place in the Great Auditorium. It may or may not be appropriate to mention these issues at the service, but we will see if any of the speakers do, especially the Governor.

Will  he say anything on Tuesday to defend the police who always place themselves in harm’s way to protect the public?    Because of the current  assault on our police, the danger to those who serve with honor has increased. This year five New Jersey heroes who died in the line of duty  will be remembered at the service.

All members of the law enforcement community, family, friends , the press, and the public at large are welcome and greatly encouraged to attend. No RSVP is required. It begins at 11:00 am.

JOSH GROBAN   from Les Miserables

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October 30, 2012, 7:45 am. Rear of Great Auditorium.  Paul Goldfinger photo ©.

October 30, 2012, 7:45 am. Rear of Great Auditorium. Paul Goldfinger photo ©.

GA roof on the morning of  Tuesday, October 30, 2012. Paul Goldfinger photo. ©

Great Auditorium  roof on the morning of Tuesday, October 30, 2012, one day after Sandy hit. The photo does not show the front side damage.  This portion of the roof is on the north side.     Paul Goldfinger photo. ©

BF roof story Nov. 5, 2012

BF roof story Jan 14, 2014

The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association is ready to complete work on the Great Auditorium roof, but they have had daunting problems deciding about which material to use.  Their plan had been to obtain zinc coated stainless steel material, but manufacturing challenges have prevented that.  JP Gradone, COO of the OGCMA, sent us the comment below in response to a Blogfinger inquiry yesterday.

“Our insurance company has recently agreed to pay for the installation of a temporary EPDM rubber roof on the damaged area while we continue to work closely with the insurance company to find a permanent solution to resolvethe situation with the roofing material.  The temporary roof was completed this week  and gives the Great Auditorium an excellent short-term solution while we carefully determine the best material for the permanent roof.”

EPDM rubber roofing on the south side.  Blogfinger photos

EPDM rubber roofing on the south side. Blogfinger photos

EPDM rubber roofing on the north side.

EPDM rubber roofing on the north side.

 

One year ago we wrote about the Woody Allen movie “Stardust Memories.”  Here is a link to that article because it shows the Great Auditorium decked out as the Stardust Hotel for that 1980 film which Allen considers one of his best.

http://blogfinger.net/2013/12/28/remembering-stardust-memories/

And for this article about the GA roof, here is a version of “Stardust,” a song by Hoagy Carmichael,  that was performed by Louis Armstrong in the movie.

But now, in 2015, we present a contemporary jazz version of “Stardust,” an instrumental, by Warren Vaché on trumpet  (a Jersey boy,)  Derek Watkins, and the Brian Lemon Quartet.

 

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Auditorium Square Park. Ain't Misbehavin' By Paul Goldfinger.

Ocean Grove.   Auditorium Square Park. Ain’t Misbehavin’ By Paul Goldfinger. © Click to enlarge the people.

REBECCA LUKER   “Summer With You”

 

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The Great Auditorium. Ocean Grove, New Jersey. 2012. By Paul Goldfinger ©

The Great Auditorium. Ocean Grove, New Jersey. 2012. By Paul Goldfinger ©

ART GARFUNKEL:

 

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Excitement at the Great Auditorium. Photograph by Paul Goldfinger. Undated ©  Click to enlarge.  Re-post from 2017.

 

ASTRUD AND JOAO GILBERTO (Brazilian music in Portuguese)  “A Fellucidade.”

 

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