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2024 Wharton Arts Honoree George Marriner Maull

On Thursday, March 7, 2024, Wharton Arts honored our Artistic Director George Marriner Maull with its Education Award at their 2024 Gala. Maestro Maull’s musical affiliations in New Jersey began…

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NJ Youth Symphony celebrates 45 years at NJPAC on May 5, 2024 at 3pm.

NJ Youth Symphony Celebrates 45 Years of Music Education

Involvement in New Jersey Youth Symphony, a program of Wharton Arts in Union County, is not just about honing musical technique, it’s also about developing life skills. On Sunday, May…

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Guest Blogger "Timeless Classical Themes Our Students Don't Know" by Tricia Tunstall, author and music educator

Timeless Classical Themes Our Students Don’t Know

If you’re a piano teacher, you’ll be familiar with an experience I’ve had countless times in my thirty-plus years of teaching. If you’re not a piano teacher, please read on;…

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Our radio show "Inside Music" with George Marriner Maull. This episode is entitled "It's Cold Out There!" featuring Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons

It’s Cold Out There!

Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons – Le Quattro Stagioni – is perhaps one of the most recognizable and often performed compositions in all of classical music. While it’s not quite up…

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Guest Blogger from our Outreach Partner

Founded in 1946, The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation of 17,000 professional women of color who are committed to enriching, sustaining, and ensuring the cultural and economic survival…

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New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant

We are pleased to announce that The Discovery Orchestra received a generous $58,000 general operating grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for our current 2023-2024 Season….

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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