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Celebration of dance Sinfonietta Nova closes its season of dance-themed performances
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By ROss AMiCO As the orchestra tunes for its final concert of the season, Sinfonietta Nova’s dance card is nearly full. The West Windsor-based community ensemble is about to conclude its 2018-19 series devoted to dance with a concert on Latin American themes. The program, “Shall We Dance?” will be presented on Saturday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the orchestra’s home, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church. Tickets are $10 to $18. For more information, go to sinfoniettanova.org. Characteristic of the orchestra’s music director, Gail HsuiWen Lee, is her practice of working with an overarching theme for the season. “I always like to have a theme to program around,” she says, “and I select music that is not ordinary. So you don’t go to the concert and hear the same thing over and over again. It started early on with a theme per concert, but I found there’s so much music for a lot of these themes that I just expanded it to the entire season.” Lee says she understands her unique position as an ambassador of unusual repertoire, frequently written by composers most professional orchestras would not touch, with names that have not necessarily been at the top of the classical music See SINFONIETTA, Page 12
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Anthony Cancro, Plainsboro Township administrator, in the newly renovated Wicoff House, which will serve as a museum of Plainsboro history. (Staff photo by Bill Sanservino.)
Plainsboro celebrating 100 years Centennial Founder’s Day to feature reopening of Wicoff House By Bill sAnseRVinO
bsanservino@communitynews.org
Plainsboro will celebrate its 100th birthday this Founders Day on Sunday, May 5, with the reopening and rededication of the historic Wicoff House on the municipal site. The house, which will be used as a museum of township history, was the subject of a recently completed $1 million
dollar renovation. Founder’s Day is the annual celebration—now in it’s 40th year—of the incorporation of the township on May 6, 1919. This year’s festivities start at 12:30 p.m. with a parade from Edgemere Avenue to the municipal complex on Plainsboro Road. The celebration is set to end at 4:30 p.m. The event features amusement rides, inflatables, crafts, food and music. The Wicoff House ceremony, which is set to start at about 1 p.m., is one of the centerpieces of the township’s year-long centennial celebration in 2019. Officials expected to be in
attendance include Gov. Phil Murphy, U.S. Senator Bonnie Watson Coleman an state Senator Linda Greenstein (a Plainsboro resident) and county and township officials. The house was built by the Wicoff family in the late 1870s and was eventually purchased by the township about a 100 years later. Mayor Peter Cantu, who will speak at the reopening, was involved in the negotiations to purchase the house and surrounding 18.5 acres of land in 1977. “We were able to buy the property at a very, very resonSee WICOFF, Page 8
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Usually the first day of a new job means unpacking, meeting coworkers and trying to distinguish up from down. But Ginger Schnitzer—former Plainsboro Township committeewoman, vice-chair of the zoning board and president of the Public Library Foundation— was greeted on her first day as executive director of the Guarini Institute for Government and Leadership at Saint Peter’s University with a snowstorm and a two-hour delay. That same day, March 4, Guarini was scheduled to host a Model UN conference for 425 high school students. A trial by fire, yes, but Schnitzer came to her new position well prepared and they managed to carry off the event. The Guarini Institute for Government and Leadership was established in 1994 by Congressman Frank Guarini and aims to provide a non-partisan forum for discussion of key public policy issues. The Institute sponsors lectures and programs throughout the academic year to promote critical thinking, debate and careers in public service. The Institute also sponsors a number of programs with the United Nations such as the VisSee SCHNITZER, Page 10
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