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Hustling Through the Holidays Although the temperature has dropped and the snowflakes are beginning to fall, the holiday season is likely to have you working up a sweat this year. It’s no surprise– every time December rolls around, we all wear ourselves down to a frazzle trying to juggle our many responsibilities, from shopping for gifts and preparing holiday meals to busily meeting up with friends and family. It can feel like a Herculean task to do it all, and the stress can leave you feeling like the protagonist in a corny Christmas movie, grumpy and Scrooge-like with no time to enjoy yourself. When it’s all neatly played out on film, the antidote to this curmudgeonly state is usually a good dose of holiday cheer with a healthy helping of remembering the reason for the season. The trouble is, that usually only works in fiction. You can sing as many carols as you want, but it won’t shorten your to-do list or ease your winter blues. It might not be as festive or cinematic, but the real cure is to remember to actually take care of yourself through all of the madness, mentally, physically, and emotionally. For our December issue, we’ve rounded up a few ways to do just that! Music is something that’s known for its therapeutic effects on the mind and brain, so taking the time to appreciate the artistry and beautiful tones of the New Jersey Choral Society will be a great way to help you unwind this month. Additionally, there’s nothing that lessens your stress like simplifying major chores, and you can take the anxiety out of your holiday shopping by getting all your gifts in one shot at the Wyckoff YMCA’s Big Holiday Shop event. Last but certainly not least, you can read about the City Lifestyle National Giving Campaign, an effort we run every year to help support each other in our communities and spread goodwill. Nothing supports your emotional well-being like taking the time to give back! When it’s all said and done, though, there is something to be said for the Christmas-movie-cure of good cheer, familial closeness, and community love. After all, nearly everyone in the world celebrates some kind of a winter holiday for a reason! When the days are darkest and coldest, that’s when we need each other the most, and even with all of the stress, the holidays bring us closer together. Our team at Northwest Bergen is sending plenty of well wishes from our homes to yours. May you have a wonderful holiday season, and a happy new year! MEGHAN MCGOWAN, EDITOR @NORTHWESTBERGENLIFESTYLE EAT LOCAL | ENJOY LOCAL | SHOP LOCAL | SPEND LOCAL | SUPPORT LOCAL

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The New Jersey Choral Society Travels the World in Song

22 Celebrating the Wyckoff YMCA Decades of Community

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From Vienna to Paris to the White House and back home to Ridgewood, the New Jersey Choral Society has traveled the world performing for multitudes of music lovers. Set to open their 43rd season, the group is celebrating both American composers and artists as well as New Jersey-grown performers in three concert series kicking off this month.

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Founded in 1980 by conductor, music administrator and educator John Peter Holly, who served as its musical director until 1988, the New Jersey Choral Society has become a prominent and celebrated ensemble of gifted singers in northern New Jersey. Based in Ridgewood, NJCS performs three concert series annually and draws its 70 plus auditioned members from the tristate area. With a repertoire ranging from classical to pops, traditional to contemporary they are gearing up their season with a Coming Home theme. “We are featuring music from American composers and artists this year. It’s a change for us but definitely exciting,” says Ethan Galvin, NJCS director of marketing, its historian as well as a tenor in the group since 2000.

The NJCS is led by Artistic Director and Conductor Dr. Lauren Fowler-Calisto, an associate professor and Director of Choral Activities at William Paterson University. The chorus is accompanied by pianist Linda Sweetman-Waters, who has performed at Carnegie Hall, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral and Lincoln Center. Along with members who have been in the chorus for decades, younger singers have joined as well. “We have a widely diverse array of people,” says Galvin. “From her role as a professor at William Paterson, Dr. FowlerCalisto has drawn young people and alumni which has been a wonderful and refreshing way to add their enthusiasm to the group.” CONTINUED >

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“Set to open their 43rd season, the group is celebrating both American composers and artists as well as New Jersey-grown performers in three c o n c e r t s e r i e s k i c k i n g o f f t h i s m o n t h .” THE CHANTEURS A smaller ensemble from NJCS, the Chanteurs, consists of about 15 members who bring their music into the community, performing at local libraries, hospitals, senior living centers and non-profit events. “We perform at about 8 different venues a year,” says Galvin. “It’s both a way to bring the joy of music to those who maybe can’t get to one of our concerts and to show the community who we are.”

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In 1998 about 30 members of the group performed in the East Room at the White House as part of their holiday festivities. Traveling internationally to perform in music festivals has been a tradition for the choral group as well, including London, Beijing, Shanghai, Sydney and Berlin. “I’ve been on three trips with them,” says Galvin. “It’s always an unforgettable experience and a great chance to sample the culture and the food as well as meet new people.”

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UPCOMING CONCERTS Home for the Holidays is the theme this month celebrating the season with festive classics such as There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays, Let it Snow, White Christmas and a medley of favorite songs from the movie Home Alone. For the March Pops concert, Greetings from the Garden State will feature hits from New Jersey artists Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston, Donald Fagen and Steely Dan and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons among others. “It will be fun,” says Galvin. “The songs have been arranged for soprano, alto, bass and tenor singers and we will have solo artists as well.” In June their Masterwork Gloryland concert will include a full orchestra and highlight American songs from the tradition of

Spirituals, Gospel and Sacred Harp. Robert Shaw’s arrangement of A City Called Heaven as well as Old Time Religion will feature solos, brass quintet and timpani. The American Gospel tradition will be highlighted with Robert Ray’s Gospel Mass and He Never Failed Me Yet with a full gospel rhythm section. The concerts, performed at both Our Lady of the Valley Church in Wayne and West Side Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, are made possible with funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information on the New Jersey Choral Society and for ticket and subscription information go to www.NJCS.org.

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Celebrating the Wyckoff YMCA Decades of Community

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Whether you’re coming for a workout class, a lesson or play session for your children, or a fundraising event for the community, chances are that if you’ve lived in Northwest Bergen County for a while, you’ve been to the Wyckoff YMCA at least once. Every town or area has a place like this– a hub of activity that people orbit around, coming and going. With a storied history that stretches back decades and a heartfelt and devoted commitment to the people who call this area their home, the Wyckoff Y is a particularly special example of a community center. This month, we were lucky enough to chat with Joy Voterro, executive director, and Ellen Gifford, an event coordinator of the development office, about the organization’s past, present, and future.

“The Y itself is about 80 years old,” Voterro said. “It was founded here at Spring Lake as a summer camp for servicemen during World War II. We’re now a member of the national YMCA in good standing. We’ve been at our location at Spring Lake for a little over 40 years. We trotted around a bit to a few different areas and wound up back here in 1981. We’ve developed the property ever since and added a lot to it. Our building has great amenities: two pools, an outdoor lake, and we gifted the town of Wyckoff a turf field in 2015, which is enjoyed by all people in the community. The YMCA welcomes all members of the community, and the Wyckoff Y in particular is known for the outreach that we have. This is our home, and we welcome everybody in it!” CONTINUED >

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That outreach is not only a major part of the regular operations at the Wyckoff Y, but it’s a huge source of pride for the team, the happiness and satisfaction in their work are easy to see as you speak with them. “Give back is sort of our middle name!” Voterro said. “We have an arm of our organization called Wyckoff Y Cares which donates to individuals who are financially struggling, or having difficulty as a family facing a debilitating illness, for example. We also have a very large program here for members with special needs, children and adults. That has been going on for almost 40 years. We’re the go-to place. We’re known for it, we’re proud of it, and over the years we’ve grown substantially because people rely on us to be here for them in times of need. We have about 12,000 members from over 35 towns, so in the little town of Wyckoff we’re a big nonprofit and we’re all about social responsibility and service. If you have known anybody who has ever needed help and has come to the Y, I know you would hear that response, and that’s something we’re very proud of.” The Covid-19 pandemic was a rough time for Wyckoff and its surrounding areas, but the Wyckoff Y took it as an opportunity to step up. “When we went through Covid in 2020, we were trying to do as many things as we still could for the community, especially during that difficult time, so we held some events outside on our campus,” Gifford explained. One of these events that underwent a move during the pandemic was the annual Big Holiday Shop, which rolled with the restrictions of the past few years and is still going strong for 2023. ”It’s our thirteenth year!” Gifford said. “We started the event as a way to give back to the community. We have so many members and community members that often come to us in some way to promote their individual businesses, and we thought that we had that space and that this would be a great forum to host an event like this where some of our members and community members with small businesses could promote them at a holiday time, so that people could just do some one-stop shopping here. It’s another way for us to give back to our community. CONTINUED >

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“This is our home, and we welcome everybody in it!”

“We started the event in our indoor double gymnasium, and it’s currently held in the same place,” she continued. “We held it in our parking lot in 2020 and 2021 as more of an outdoor event. Then, with some threat of foul weather, we decided to move the event back inside into our gymnasium last year. “We have an awful lot of foot traffic on that day. Lots of young families will bring their children for swim lessons on Saturday mornings, and we have a large population at our fitness classes on Saturday mornings as well, and those people often wind up staying for the Big Holiday Shop. We also sometimes have a swim meet on the day of the event, which even brings in people from out of town to our facility. It does end up having kind of a built-in audience outside of just the people that we advertise to.” As for the shopping itself, the Big Holiday Shop is a great way to knock out a chunk of your gift list. “We do often have young children at the event and there are gifts and things on sale that are geared to them. One of the vendors that we really love sells unique children’s books, which has been very popular with our community and our members who learn about the event through our e-blast and our community presence,” Gifford said. “We have many fabulous jewelry vendors and local crafters. One man sells cutting boards that he makes! We have scarves. We also have local brick and mortar stores bring stuff over, which has been very popular. Having everything in one area

with so much variety is really popular with the shoppers. It’s kind of like TJ Maxx on steroids! There’s food, there’s camaraderie. People love it! Many people know each other and end up having a great time catching up while they’re there. It’s a really great vibe. The Y really serves as such a presence in the community, not just Wyckoff, but in the greater Wyckoff area. It’s really a home away from home for a lot of people who come here. There’s a very strong attraction to being together and being known as a community center. People are very comfortable coming for a class and then staying and having that cup of coffee and socializing with others, so it lends itself perfectly to this type of event.” The rest of December, as well as the upcoming new year, is looking interesting for the Wyckoff Y as well. “We have a big performing arts wing with wonderful kids theater, and we’re really known for all of the shows! We have a big show coming up in December, Elf, which is amazing! We have a tremendous performing arts team,” Voterro said. “We also have Wyckoff Day, which is another outdoor community event that we have at a different time of year.” With a schedule full of upcoming events and another year of giving ahead of them, the Wyckoff Y is sure to continue in its role as a Bergen County community center. On December 2nd at 10 am, make sure to visit for the thirteenth annual Big Holiday Shop! wyckoffymca.org

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Christmas with The Association

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Brentano Quartet and Antioch Chamber Choir

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Ramapo Winter Chorale Concert: An American Songbook

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Winter Solstice at Lorrimer Sanctuary

LOR R IMER SAN CTUARY, FR AN K L I N L A KE S | 3:30 P M The winter solstice is the shortest day and longest night of the year, observed by cultures around the world and marking the turning point of the cold and dark winter months. Join the team at Lorrimer Sanctuary to observe the day with a bonfire and a celebration of the coming new year! eventbrite.com

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