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The Rutgers Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Kynan Johns will be throwin’ it down Jay-Z style Sunday evening as they appear with the legendary rapper in a Super Bowl XLIV music video. The 2-minute teaser is set to air just minutes before the 6:28 p.m. ET kickoff between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts.
Appearing in a music video is “outside the mainstream of classical music,” admits Johns, director of orchestras at Mason Gross School of the Arts. “It doesn’t happen in our realm.” Johns says the arrangement of the song is a fusion of rap and rock injected with a substantive orchestral presence.
Johns says the video shoot, taking place this week in New York City, will help his classically trained students to see that “it takes a lot of time to get pop music to that level.”
The Rutgers Symphony Orchestra is scoring prime face time on what is largely considered the biggest TV event of the year. According to The Nielsen Company, last year’s Super Bowl attracted, on average, nearly 99 million viewers.
posted on: February 4, 2010
categories: news, celebrity sighting, Rutgers
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Walter Seward was a celebrity on campus and at Rutgers events. He was the oldest living alumnus and Rutgers’ biggest fan! He’s also the third oldest living person in US. Shoot he’s even in wikipedia.
According to Gerontology Research Group’s records, Seward was the world’s 30th-oldest person. Most who live to be that old are women. The current record-holder is an Indiana woman, Edna Parker, who is 115!
Through all the decades, he was an avid booster of Rutgers and its football team, attending all but six homecoming celebrations since his graduation in 1917. He was recently featured on the backcover of the Rutgers magazine that came out just last week.
A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Kirkpatrick Chapel on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick. A viewing is scheduled for Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Preston Funeral Home on South Orange Avenue in West Orange.
posted on: September 15, 2008
categories: celebrity sighting, Rutgers
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From Home News:
The 31-year-old may have graduated from Highland Park High School in 1995, but every week the Los Angeles actor, teacher and director is back in the classroom as an acting coach in ABC’s reality television program “High School Musical: Get in the Picture,” hosted by Nick Lachey.
“This is by far the biggest, most public thing I’ve done so far,” he said of the show, which airs at 8 p.m. Mondays and will result in one lucky teen starring in a music video during the end credits of this fall’s “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” motion picture.
posted on: August 18, 2008
categories: celebrity sighting, Highland Park
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Stanley Kamel, who is known for his roles on “Monk” and “Beverly Hills, 90210,” has died. He was 65.
He was born in New Brunswick, NJ in 1943.
The actor was found dead of a heart attack in his Hollywood Hills home on Tuesday by his longtime agents and friends, Donna Massetti and Marilyn Szatmary.
Kamel can currently be seen as Adrian Monk’s psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Kroger, on the USA Network series “Monk.” He recently attended the network’s upfront party in Los Angeles at Craft restaurant.
posted on: April 12, 2008
categories: celebrity sighting, New Brunswick
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UK’s favorite tabloid newspaper The Sun is reporting that identity thieves have gotten a hold of Kurt Cobain’s info and have bought a house under his name. Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, died in 1994 from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. Now it seems that someone using his name has purchased a home in New Brunswick, NJ. His widow, Courtney Love, told The Sun that this could be one of the biggest cases of identity theft in U.S. history.
Supposedly the house is worth $3.2 million. Does anyone know where a $3.2M house is in New Brunswick?
posted on: March 10, 2008
categories: celebrity sighting, New Brunswick
