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A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES Thursday, March 3, 2016 Page 21 POPCORN Race Takes the Silver 2 & ½ popcorns One Popcorn, Poor — Two Popcorns, Fair — Three Popcorns, Good — Four Popcorns, Excellent By MICHAEL S. GOLDBERGER or woman. Still, while we want our film critic past faithfully recounted, we also want If only we were as proficient at it told in poetic, fairy tale terms. But correcting our social sins as we are at alas, and good thing, too, these days chronicling them. My case in point is Hollywood is much more careful in director Stephen Hopkins’s Race, a its elaborations. Given such narrow dutiful but dramatically average tell- limits, the challenge to the contempo- ing of the heroic odyssey that made rary filmmaker is to conjure the artis- Jesse Owens a worldwide sports leg- tic yet honest magic required to gild end. We, in the more enlightened the truth. nooks and hollers, are properly Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen ISLAND NATIVES...Students are rehearsing scene in upcoming musical Once on abashed at the stumbling blocks Mr. here. As a result, if the track and field TALENTEDTEEN SINGERS...The acclaimed traveling Choir of GrotonSchool this Island at Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield on Friday, March 4, will sing a Lenten Evensong at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Westfield on Saturday, March 5 and Sunday, March 6. Picutred above are: Michael Moore, Owens had to hurdle on his way to star was indeed compelling outside Tuesday, March 8, at 6 p.m. St. Paul’s is located at 414 E.Broad Street in Alexandra Sica, Eva Boyes, Christina Arida, Julia Singer, Matthew Meixner, glory in the 1936 Berlin Olympiad. of his storied travail, it remains un- Westfield. For moreinformation, contact Music Director Charles M. Banks at Vincent Mora, Caroline Schafer, Sara Kirschner and Sarah Rappoport. Yet, beneath our conceit, we shiver in known to us. Otherwise, working from (908) 451-5082 or [email protected]. the knowledge that there are still cave a script by Joe Shrapnel and Anna dwellers in those intolerant area’s Waterhouse, the director paints an loath to celebrate humanity’s égalité. informative backstory to the central Free Evening Concert So we watch respectfully, basking tale, responsibly detailing the winds Traveling Teen Choir in this one victory, a stepping stone of history and partially ameliorating that etched away at the hard granite of some of his shortcomings with a bit of Offered by Musical Club outrageous fear that fuels prejudice, elucidative muckraking. Will Sing at St. Paul’s and wonder just how many superhu- Now, there has never been conclu- WESTFIELD – The Musical Club Beethoven’s Sonata in F# Major, Op. man achievements it takes to make sive proof that Avery Brundage, who WESTFIELD – The traveling Choir In that regard, St. Paul’s Evensong of Westfield invites the public to a 78. people act, well, just human. Even headed the American contingent of of Groton School (Groton, Mass.) attendees on March 8 can expect a free concert on Wednesday, March 9, The concert ends with a perfor- good old Aesop himself couldn’t make athletes in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, will sing a Lenten Evensong at St. varied, musically textured, devotional at 7:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, mance by guest artist Javier Oviedo, up a better parable than this one. War was responsible for excluding Jewish Paul’s Episcopal Church in Westfield and inspiring program that celebrates 170 Elm Street, Westfield. The con- alto saxophone, and Marie Daniele is in the air. In a few years we’ll be runners Marty Glickman and Sam on Tuesday, March 8, at 6 p.m. Rec- the Lenten season. The service will cert will feature local and guest artists Mercier, organ, of Rapsodie for Alto sending young men, segregated into Stoller from their relay event so as not ognized as “a group of 20 talented feature choral music by leading 17th presenting the finest music from the Saxophone and Organ, Op.108a by black and white, to fight and die. The to embarrass Hitler. But Hopkins, high school students,” the choir will Century English composer William 18th,19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Paul Creston. saber-rattling Nazis have made Aryan boldly sewing that controversy into make St. Paul’s its last stop on a mid- Smith; Irish-born composer Sir Opening the program, Flora Pol- There will be a reception following supremacy their raison d’être. But the greater fabric of the plot, delivers Atlantic tour wherein they performed Charles Villiers Stanford; 20th Cen- lack, flute, and Mary Beth McFall, the concert where the audience will you see, there’s this runner, Jesse on the implied promise of Race’s at Church of the Redeemer in Bryn tury British composer Herbert piano, perform Sonate, Opus 2, No.4 have an opportunity to meet the per- Owens. double entendre title. Here Brundage Mawr, Penn.; St. Paul’s Church in Sumsion; and American composer by Michel Blavet, and Sonate pour formers and enjoy light refreshments. Born in Alabama and raised in is deemed not only culpable, but, for Washington, D.C.; the Chapel on his- Richard Wayne Dirksen. Flûte et Piano by Francis Poulenc. The Musical Club of Westfield is a Cleveland, Ohio, he would ultimately alleged business favors hinted at by toric Jamestown Island in Virginia; In March 2013, the Groton Chapel The concert continues with pianist 501(c)(3) organization now in its be known as the fastest man on Earth. the Nazis, a de facto conspirator. and the Princeton University Chapel Choir “had the unique honor of jointly John Blasdale playing the Impromptu 101st season, and offers scholarships Much to the inconvenience of the Yipes! in New Jersey. singing with the St. Paul’s Cathedral in G Flat Major, Op. 90, No. 3, by to promising young musicians who white superiority crowd, Jesse just Jeremy Irons as Brundage is near Dan Moriarty, Groton School Or- Choir Evensong in London. Every Franz Schubert. Then Mr. Blasdale are pursuing a musical education. happened to be black, a fact that Dickensian as the face of upper crust ganist and Director of Choral Music, December since 1919,” notes offers the first public performance of Membership in the club is open to proved of no little inconvenience to arrogance and tacit anti-Semitism, all describes his Choir as “one of the Moriarty, “the Choir has also per- his own Elegy in E Minor (2016); anyone interested in music. Those Jesse himself. The naysayers, for in service to what Kipling smugly most advanced high school singing formed a Service of Nine Lessons John notes that “a theme from a So- wishing information about member- whatever feverish reasons that ruled coined The White Man’s Burden. In groups in New England.” He notes and Carols, drawing a combined nata that Beethoven composed in 1820 ship in the Musical Club of Westfield, their blinding bigotry, weren’t going contrast, struggling to extricate him- that, “the Choir sings for weekly crowd of nearly 1200 listeners at three is the basis of the Elegy, though it is as a performer or an associate mem- to make it easy. Originally just a kid self from the pawn-like status those chapel each Sunday, preparing a large identical services, and many more greatly varied.” Mr. Blasdale will ber, may visit who loved to run and dreamt of rais- powers that be would relegate him to and varied repertoire of anthems and through its live stream.” conclude with Ludwig van www.musicalclubofwestfield.org. ing a family in the country that had if left unchecked, Mr. James acquits service music that represents both the Groton School is a private Episco- promised him his civil rights, he is himself well enough, albeit Western Classical tradition and new pal college preparatory boarding forced to live his life in the burning unexcitingly. The real high-relief stuff expressions of contemporary and glo- school located in Groton, Massachu- Oratorio Singers to Offer crucible of history. is left to his Ohio State coach, Larry bal music. Students in the Choir setts. For more information, contact Then again, if he were born in what Snyder, entertainingly emoted by Ja- improve their vocal technique and [email protected]. the apocryphal blessing calls “unin- son Sudeikis. sight-reading skills through weekly St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is lo- Concert of Exciting Music teresting times,” we’d have no This is no Chariots of Fire (1981), rehearsals.” cated at 414 East Broad Street in epiphany, no great watershed and no the Academy Award-winning biopic “It is also noteworthy,” advises Mr. Westfield (near Euclid Avenue and WESTFIELD – The Oratorio Sing- first created beam" and "Then shall scolding reminder that indeed there is that investigated racial convolutions Moriarty, “that Choir at Groton, un- across from Town Hall). Evensong is ers of Westfield, under the baton of they know." Moving on to 19th century still much work to be done. Thus his in the 1924 Olympics. The running like many of its peer schools, is an offered free to the general public. music director Trent Johnson, will music, the instrumental ensemble will story is told, accurately by most ac- scenes, while realistic, pale in com- academic subject and meets as part of Area parking is also free. For more present a program of choral and brass showcase the well-known "The counts, save for just a few dramati- parison. There is not the exquisite- the curriculum. Consequently, it never information, please call (908) 451- music with percussion and organ in- Pilgrim's Chorus" from Wagner's opera cally expedient exaggerations.