Month: February 2025

Maestro's Monthly Blog for February 2025 is about our beloved friend and long time support Rev. Hewitt Vinnedge Johnston (July 6, 1939–January 13, 2025)

Hewitt Vinnedge Johnston (July 6, 1939–January 13, 2025)

After many years in the ministry, Hewitt Vinnedge Johnston came to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Gladstone, New Jersey in 1997 to serve as Interim Rector as the parish conducted…

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The Discovery Orchestra Receives KearnyBank Foundation Grant

  SUMMIT, New Jersey – The Discovery Orchestra was presented with a $1,000 grant from the KearnyBank Foundation today. This grant will help sponsor the Orchestra’s upcoming Black History Month…

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Radio Show Inside Music episode entitled Race to the Finish Line, featuring Movement IV of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4

Race to the Finish Line

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is famous for many things––not the least of which was his ability to write incredibly exciting moments of symphonic music. In this episode of Inside Music, Maestro…

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This has been an incredible series. I could take in SO much more than I could at the beginning ones. You have really trained my ears!!! I have been enjoying classical music for more than 60 years (as a child my parents played classical music at dinner and we guessed the composer) but I NEVER knew how to listen before!

— Attendee of NJPAC Classical Conversations with Maestro Maull