NJ State Opera's Jason Tramm to Conduct Seton Hall University's BUILDING BRIDGES, Today

The New Jersey State Opera has announced that company Artistic Director Jason Tramm will be conducting Hope for Resolution: A Song for Mandela and de Klerk, part of the opening celebration of Building Bridges: Sixty Years of Jewish-Christian Dialogue at Seton Hall University.

The community is invited to the opening celebration of Building Bridges: Sixty Years of Jewish-Christian Dialogue at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 30, 2013, in JubiLee Hall Auditorium, 400 South Orange Ave., South Orange, NJ. The keynote speaker is Dr. Peter Schäfer of Princeton University, the author of The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other.

The musical performance will feature the Seton Hall University Choir with Maestro Jason Tramm, performing Hope for Resolution: A Song for Mandela and de Klerk arranged by Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory and Ralph Vaughan Williams' O Clap Your Hands. The program will include the screening of the video on the Legacy of Monsignor Oesterreicher, and book signings with Dr. Schäfer and Rabbi Alan Brill, Cooperman/Ross Endowed Chair of Jewish Christian Studies at Seton Hall and the author of Judaism and World Religions: Encountering Christianity, Islam and Eastern Traditions. There will be a light reception. The event is free and open to the public.