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Thursday, July 20, 2023

BONJ PRESENTS SPECIAL CONCERT CELEBRATING 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF MORRISTOWN NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

 


SPECIAL CONCERT CELEBRATING 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF MORRISTOWN NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

WHEN: Sunday, July 23, 2:00 PM
WHERE:
 
Washington's Headquarters Museum, 30 Washington Place, Morristown
ADMISSION: free

The Baroque Orchestra will perform a special concert celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Morristown National Historical Park as the nation's first national historical park. Music will include selections that would have been familiar to those who spent the winter of 1779-1780 in Morristown, as well as the World Premiere of Jockey Hollow Suite.

Spearheaded by Dr. Jude Pfister, Chief of Cultural Resources at Washington's Headquarters, this program is considered the primary interpretive presentation of the 90th anniversary ye

Funded in part by a Morris Arts grant, 
Jockey Hollow Suite, composed by Maestro Robert W. Butts, is intended to reflect the threads and themes of the past    
and future of the American story as experienced in the hard winter of 1779-1780.