Waterloo Village church offers holiday concert

Stanhope - Waterloo United Methodist Church will host the New Jersey Saxophone Ensemble in a holiday concert to be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11. The church is located inside the historic Waterloo village in Stanhope. Established in 1985, the NJ Saxophone Ensemble is acclaimed as one of the most innovative and exciting contemporary music ensembles in the region. Performing from a repertoire of classical saxophone quartet selections from the last five centuries, the afternoon concert will include the NJ premiere of a new work by composer Joe Tranpanese, New York Rising. Other highlights include George Gershwin’s Selections from Porgy and Bess; Scott Joplin’s Pan-AM Rag and a special transcription of J.S. Bach’s Organ Fugue in G Minor. Members of this group have performed at Lincoln Center and Symphony Space in New York City, the Louisville Saxophone Institute, the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands and the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Bringing their talents to the performance will be Frederic Davis on soprano Saxophone, Khalid Griffith on alto sax, James Garde on tenor sax and Paul Larsen on baritone saxophone. For more information regarding this performance, call 973-347-3679 or visit the NJSE website@njsax.com. A free will offering will be taken.