Weekend Picks: Autumn Symphony
October 11, 2007
Anybody see Bruuu-ce? How about Naaad-ja?
Springsteen is NJ’s own, and so is the New Jersey Symphony, which opens its season this weekend with violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg playing Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Also on the program: Svendson’s Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1 and Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5. They’ll be at NJPAC Friday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. On Saturday evening at eight the concert is at Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank. $20–$75. (800) 255-3476 and www.njsymphony.org.
Is it really mid-October? You can’t tell from the recent weather. But, yup, Halloween is only two and half weeks away.
Find the Great Pumpkin—or at least a great pumpkin—at the South Jersey Pumpkin Show on Saturday. Everybody will listen to music, check out the more than 100 crafters expected and eat pumpkin, in one form or another. The big moment: a pumpkin weigh-off, with $1,000 to the winner. It’s at the Cumberland County Fairground in Millville. www.sjpumpkinshow.com.
Mount Holly, too, is gearing up for Halloween. Downtown on Saturday there’s the Cirque de la Lune masquerade. Festivities include a costume contest, spinners, contortionists, Tarot readers, Haunted Holly ghost stories and a “Sleepy Holly” Scavenger Hunt. www.mainstreetmountholly.com.
Mid-October is also harvest time. And wineries from throughout the state will be celebrating the new vintage-in-progress at the Grand Harvest Festival, Saturday and Sunday at Alba Vineyards, in Milford. More than two dozen wine makers will offer samples of their bottlings. www.albavineyard.com.
And mid-October is migration season. Have birds been flying south in the warm weather? Ask the New Jersey Audubon Society. From the mountains (Weis Ecology Center, Ringwood) to the prairies (Plainsboro Preserve) to the ocean (Cape May and Sandy Hook observatories), most of its sanctuaries will host bird walks and other nature programs. The calendar is at www.njaudubon.org/Calendar/caldate.html.
Tomorrow, we’ll take you on a spectacular hike in the Skylands region, in search of the best foliage viewing in the state!
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