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Please join the Schiller Family (Allan, Eleanor, and Jacqueline) in an afternoon of music for two violins and piano. Presenting works by Bach, Mozart, Shostakovich, Sarasate, Gershwin, and other popular favorites. (Please enter by the Moore Street entrance.)

Got the sugar blues? Are you constantly craving sweets and want to understand why? Do you want to gain control without deprivation? Find out how, just in time for the Holiday Season! Please join Jessie Blair-Myrie, a Holistic Health Coach, for a FREE workshop on Saturday, December 11, 2010, at 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. at the Johnson Public Library in Hackensack.
Jessie Blair-Myrie is a health counselor who helps children and parents learn how to improve their health and family life. She leads workshops on nutrition and offers individual health and nutrition coaching to parents and families to discover the food and lifestyle choices that enable them to reach their current and future health goals. Ms. Blair-Myrie will complete her certification in the spring of next year from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in NYC, and will then apply for board certification with the AADP (American Association of Drugless Practitioners). Ms. Blair-Myrie has worked in broadcasting for a number of years, at WYNY, WKTU, WABC, WPLJ and Radio Disney.
Don’t miss this opportunity to find out how to become a healthier person, for yourself and your family!
This program is free and everyone is welcome.

You are invited to join Iris Perry in concert at the Johnson Public Library
as she presents The Music of George Enescu.
Ms. Perry will perform and lecture on selected piano pieces written by the famous Romanian composer and musician. Pianist Iris Perry has performed to high acclaim as a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras throughout Austria, Holland, Israel, Romania, the former Soviet Union, and the United States. A prizewinning musician, Iris is strongly committed to music education.
Iris lives in River Edge, NJ, with her husband and two sons.

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You are invited to a celebration of the story of Jazz in America, Part 2. Back by popular demand, Shenole Latimer will highlight the history of Jazz from the 1960's to the present and will explore many jazz artists and their struggles. An engaging speaker, and an award--winning saxophonist and recording artist, Shenole will do solo sax performances of many of your jazz favorites.