A Musical Lecture @ TBA

Side by Side with Sondheim: A Lecture in Sight and Sound with Maestro Robert Butts @ TBA On Sunday, December 14, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM at Temple B\'nai Abraham, 300 E Northfield Road, Livingston, the Prime Time Group of Temple B’nai Abraham will present a musical event featuring Maestro Robert Butts, Music Director and Conductor of the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey. Dr. Butts will discuss Side by Side with Sondheim: Celebrating America’s Greatest Living Composer A Lecture in Sound and Sight. This lecture is open to the community, with a $5 per person admission fee for non-Prime Time members. Refreshments will be served at 2:00 PM and the presentation at 3:00 PM. Reservations are requested, please call 973.994.2290 or register online at www.tbanj.org. Bring your friends! The TBA Prime Time Group is led by PT Chair Ethel Singer. Stephen Sondheim\'s work as a composer-lyricist over the past five decades has set the standard for modern American musical theater. He has won a record eight Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre; the Laurence Olivier Award; eight Grammy Awards and received a Pulitzer Prize for Sunday in the Park with George. Dr. Robert W. Butts is New Jersey’s most wide-ranging conductor, exploring the operatic as well as the orchestral worlds, the earliest major works of the Baroque period through compositions of the twenty-first century. He serves as Music Director and Conductor with The Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey, Eastern Opera Company, Touring Concert Opera of New York and In Mid Air Productions. He teaches and lectures at Montclair State University, The College of Saint Elizabeth, Drew University and The New Jersey Council For the Humanities. He is a recipient of the Arts Council of the Morris Area Arts Professional of the Year and has been a finalist for the 2010 and 2011 American Prize for Orchestral Conducting, the 2011 and 2012 American Prize for Opera Conducting, and the 2011 Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award. He was awarded the 2011 American Prize Citation for outstanding educational and outreach work in music.