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Untitled #1 features art that speaks for itself – the Bay-Atlantic Symphony playing Handel and Bach, a Madison-based painter of nail salons and Bible stories, the art of contemporary glass at the Newark Museum, and abstract art by late 20th century Russians.
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 bette blank story
Bette Blank has a Ph.D. in Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, but her art is about the emotions and feelings of everyday life. In 2000, Blank gave up her day job to pursue painting full-time. According to the artist, it was her mother’s death which caused her finally to pursue her dream – and it prompted her to create a painting as well, “Tug of War.” In it, Blank depicted her mother’s hospital room, filled with family, medical personnel, and angels, as showing the “struggle between the living, loved ones and her dead, loved ones (angels.)” Family memories, popular culture (“Annunciation of the War in Iraq” – as seen on TV in a nail salon), and Bible stories are some of Blank’s favorite themes. State of the Arts producer Susan Wallner visits some of sites of Blank’s paintings with her – including a nail salon and two of her favorite restaurants in her hometown of Madison, New Jersey. Although her style has a naïve look, Blank has studied art at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art and the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts among other places. A resident of Madison, New Jersey, she has had solo shows in New York and New Jersey, and her work is in the permanent collection of The Jewish Museum in New York.
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Wedding Toast by Bette Blank
Tug of War by Bette Blank
Salami Sandwich by Bette Blank
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Cobalt Violet Deep Persian Set
(1993), blown glass,
by Dale Chihuly |
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Cross Composition
(1986), cast glass,
by Stanislav Libensky
and Jaroslava Brychtova |
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Head with Monitor (2003),
cast glass, wire and metal,
by Hank Murta Adams |
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bay-atlantic symphony story
In 2007, State of the Arts producer Eric Schultz visited the Bay-Atlantic Symphony for the first of its annual concerts at the Cape May Music Festival. The Bay Atlantic was marking its fifth year as orchestra-in-residence for the Festival. Two days before the season opening, a crisis hit when the orchestra learned that their piano soloist did not have the proper visa to travel to the United States. So, music director Jed Gaylin called his old friend Clipper Erickson, a well-known concert pianist based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Erickson spent the next two days relearning one of Bach’s most difficult concertos, and delivered an electrifying performance!
Schultz speaks with Gaylin and Erickson as they prepare and perform Suite No. 1 and Piano Concerto No. 1 by J.S. Bach, and the famous Water Music by George Frederic Handel. Gaylin points out that performing at a summer festival right next to the beach in Cape May creates a wonderfully relaxed and free atmosphere for making music. Erickson adds that audiences sense this freedom and really enjoy hearing musicians who are having fun.
A fully professional orchestra, the Bay-Atlantic was the focus of an NPR feature highlighting its innovative approaches to developing new audiences. Maestro Gaylin’s conducting has been described by the Baltimore Sun as "consistently impressive, with a propulsive sweep that allowed the lyricism to linger.” The symphony performs throughout rural southern New Jersey with both winter and summer concert series, and at numerous educational outreach events. As their name suggests, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony performs from the Delaware Valley to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Bay Atlantic Symphony
Jed Gaylin conducting
Bay Atlantic Symphony
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