Part Three of our continuing exploration of the Newark Museum's reinstallation of its stunning American Collection, "Picturing America". This week, we move into the 20th Century, and see how artists reacted to a new world shaped by immigration, urbanization, modernization.

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"Carnival", through June 30 at the NJ Shakespeare Festival. In this classic musical adaptation of Lili, an innocent, homeless girl joins a troupe of jaded performers including The Incomparable Rosie, Marco the Magnificent and Paul, a crippled puppeteer. A joyride of music, romance and glittering theatricality, Carnival's score includes the standard "Love Makes the World Go 'Round." Host/Producer Amber Edwards takes us behind the scenes of this New Jersey Shakespeare Festival production.

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Philadelphia Orchestra's Free Community Concert Series. The world-famous Philadelphia Orchestra celebrated its 100th birthday recently with the inauguration of a series of free community concerts. The first community concert in New Jersey will take place July 8, 2002 at the Washington Township Performing Arts Center, in Washington Township, NJ. The New Jersey concert has prompted State of the Arts to explore historic ties between the Orchestra and the Garden State; and not surprisingly, the ties go far deeper than we first imagined. The Philadelphia Orchestra played its first New Jersey concert, for example, in Trenton in 1902. Many of orchestra’s most historic recordings were made at the RCA Victor studios in Camden, New Jersey, and even today, over a third of the orchestra’s players live in New Jersey.

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Philadelphia Orchestra Assistant Conductor Rossen Milanov rehearses with the Washington Township High School Orchestra, one of a number of events leading up to the Orchestra’s July 8 concert.