Art Show & Sale • Children’s Activities • Food Trucks
Enjoy a concert by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra on the beautiful lawns of Giralda Farms in Madison, NJ. Gates open at 4:00 P.M. for picnics and activities, including an art show/sale. Concert begins at 6:00 P.M.
Prizes will be awarded for the most inventive picnics, and a 50/50 raffle for generous cash prizes supports our scholarship program.
The 2019 program features
JOSÉ LUIS DOMÍNGUEZ conductor
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Celebrate the diversity of the Americas with the NJSO this summer! Explore the continents with concert, theater and dance music from Leonard Bernstein, José Pablo Moncayo, Astor Piazzolla, Florence Price, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin. Hear hits from West Side Story and Porgy and Bess, travel to Mexico with Arturo Marquez’s Conga del Fuego Nuevo and experience patriotic favorites along with Copland’s classic “Hoe Down” from Rodeo.
Bernstein/arr. Peress Overture to West Side Story
Márquez Danzón No. 2
Copland “Variations on a Shaker Melody” from Appalachian Spring
Piazzolla Libertango
Moncayo Huapango
Copland “Hoe Down” from Rodeo
INTERMISSION
Márquez Conga del Fuego Nuevo
arr. Norris Duke Ellington Medley
Price “Silk Hat and Walking Cape” from Dances in the Canebrakes
Gershwin/arr. Bennett Porgy and Bess Selections for Orchestra
Gould American Salute
Various/arr. Lowden Armed Forces Salute
Barbecues, pets and smoking are not permitted.
| Advance Tickets Adults (over 12), $18 Children, $4 (under 4 are free) Group Sales (10 or more), $15 | Advance tickets available at: • Online (Brown Paper Tickets) • Kings Food Markets (Chatham and Morristown) • Gary’s Wine & Marketplace (Madison) • Morris Arts (973) 285-5115 x 15 |
| Tickets Day of Event • Adults: $25 • Children (under 12): $5 Location change will be posted here on the day of the concert after 12:00 pm or call 973-285-5115 | Rain Site Mennen Arena 161 E. Hanover Avenue, Morristown, NJ 07960 Doors open at 4 p.m. for picnicking and activities |
Individuals needing special assistance or accommodation should contact Kaity De Laura at 973-285-5115 x 14, or kdelaura@morrisarts.org at least 14 days prior to the event to ensure appropriate arrangements.
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- NJSO under conductor Sameer Patel
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- A beautiful day on the Giralda lawn
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- Enjoying the day
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- Montclair Art Museum Truck, children’s art activities
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- Antique ice cream truck with goodies for all
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- Southern belle Kay Kribs with Hula themed picnic
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- Savoring the On the Banks of the Seine picnic
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- Folk Art for sale
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- Sue Thompson and friends with their Dog Days of Summer picnic
Enjoy these photos from Giralda 2018 (our first ever at the Mennen Arena rainsite) :
Ample proof that, even in the event of rain, you can still have picnics and enjoy all the same activities you would have enjoyed outdoors at Giralda Farms – but in the air conditioned, dry comfort of our rainsite at the Mennen Arena
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- Conductor Jose Luis Dominguez
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- The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra performing under conductor Dominguez
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- Concertmaster Eric Wyrick performs with orchestra
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- happy crowds enjoying the concert
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- the “Hydrangea Picnic” -with gorgeous flower
Here are some photos of prizewinning picnics in past years….don’t miss this chance to win fabulous picnic prizes and exercise your creative instincts!
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- Breakfast at Tiffany’s picnic
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- Moustache themed picnic
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- Margaritaville themed picnic with “shark” fruit bowl
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- Dog Days of Summer picnic desserts
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- NJ Shore themed picnic with “octopus”
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- Baseball themed picnic
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2019 Giralda Music & Arts Festival Sponsors
Giralda Property Sponsors: Open Spaces Management Association, GRC Management Corp., Lincoln Equities LLC, Giralda Farms RE LLC, Linque Management Company, Inc., American Realty Capital, AHS Hospital Corp., Atlantic Health System, 1 Giralda Realty LLC, 3 Giralda Realty LLC, 7 Giralda Realty LLC, Mack-Cali Realty Corp.
Community Sponsors: Crum & Forster Insurance, MetLife Foundation, The Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation, Kings Food Markets, Gary’s Wine & Marketplace, Shoprite Supermarkets, County of Morris, Township of Chatham and Morris County Park Commission
Thank you to our sponsors who make the Giralda Music & Arts Festival possible.
