Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • November 20, 2013 Ridgewood Winter Music Saturdays to be held at Temple Israel Temple Israel and JCC of Ridgewood will continue its series of Winter Music Saturdays on Dec. 14 at 7:45 p.m. Performing at this concert will be Duo Music, comprised of violinist and musicologist Gabriel Schaff and pianist Leslie Frost. Schaff and Frost will perform a program that includes pieces by Beethoven and Jewish composers including Salamone Rossi (1613), Henryk Wieniawski, Anton Rubinstein, C.-V. Alkan, Aaron Copland, and Kurt Weill. At 16, Schaff was admitted to Philadelphia’s New School of Music, where he studied with the Curtis String Quar- tet. One year later, he won a scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music to study with internationally acclaimed violinist Erick Friedman. Schaff and Friedman later col- laborated for a decade at the Garrett Lakes Arts Festival. Schaff is a freelance violinist in the greater New York area and appears regularly with leading symphony, opera, and ballet ensembles, in addition to frequent chamber and recital collaborations. He has appeared with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (U.S. tour), American Symphony Orchestra, Stamford Symphony, Long Island Philhar- monic, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, New York Virtuosi, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, on Broadway, and on “The Late Show” with David Letterman. He is the concertmaster of the SONOS Chamber Orchestra in New York City and founder and artistic director of the Engle- wood Chamber Players. Recent projects have included Gabriel Schaff Leslie Frost a retrospective of the composers of 1810 (Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, and Liszt), and bicentennial perfor- mances of the music of Wagner, Verdi, and Alkan. He has performed throughout the world and on National Public Radio and Television, New Jersey Network, and on com- mercial radio and network television. He is on the faculty at Essex County College and Felician College, and is a guest lecturer at Rutgers University (Camden), Oberlin College, and the Shanghai Conservatory. He is currently a DMA candidate at Rutgers University. Frost holds two degrees in piano performance, and is a sought-after collaborative pianist. She has worked as a professional accompanist at Interlochen Arts Camp, toured with Tucson Girls Chorus, and performed chamber music across the United States. Also an accomplished singer, Leslie is trained in vocal technique and performance and has performed extensively as a vocalist, including the Seattle Symphony Chorale and Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble. A passionate and versatile educator, she has taught in a wide variety of settings from preschool to adult education. She has developed innovative curricula and educational pro- grams exploring the world of music, including drumming workshops. The night of the concert, the doors will open at 7:45 p.m. for Havdalah, the ceremony that marks the symbolic end of Shabbat and ushers in the new week. The concert will begin at about 8 p.m. in the sanctuary, followed by a dessert reception. Admission is free, but the suggested donation for the concert is $10 per person. Located at 475 Grove Street in Ridgewood, Temple Israel and JCC is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue with members from over a dozen Bergen County com- munities. Weekly Shabbat services are held on Fridays at 8:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 9 a.m. During the week, minyan takes place on Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m. and Tuesday nights at 7:45 p.m. For more information, call (201) 444-9320, e-mail office@synagogue.org, or visit www.synagogue.org. Village seeks intersection upgrades The Ridgewood Village Council has approved a resolu- tion to ask Bergen County for the upgrade and improve- ment of signalization of four traffic lights on county roads that run through Ridgewood. The request followed a Ridgewood Council meeting at which one resident described being run over by a truck -- she survived after multiple surgeries -- and others described the dangers of intersections near their homes. The intersections to be upgraded include North Maple Avenue and Franklin Avenue near Ridgewood Village Hall, East Ridgewood Avenue, North Maple Avenue at the entrance to the downtown shopping area, Oak Street and Franklin Avenue on the approach to the YMCA-YWCA, East Ridgewood Avenue and Pleasant Avenue, and the Godwin Avenue corridor near Ackerman Avenue, South Monroe Street, and Lincoln Avenue -- said by some drivers to be the most dangerous intersection in Ridgewood. Heavy traffic, especially at rush hours and during school pickup hours, has rendered these intersections troublesome and often dangerous, observers say. Several of the intersec- tions have also been cited as obstacles to development of multi-story residential buildings in the area of Ridgewood near the railroad line. Since Bergen County roads are involved, the county has the final authority on signalization. J. KOSTER