Selected by Michael Redmond
‘More Vibrant Life’ with Dr. Oz
Mehmet Oz, M.D., author, TV personality, and professor of surgery at Columbia University, will speak about “How to Live a Longer, More Vibrant Life” during a benefit for the Community Hospice of Greenwood House which will take place on Sunday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. at the Princeton Regional Schools Performing Arts Center. The presentation will feature a Q&A and a book signing.
Dr. Oz is the author of five New York Times best sellers, including “You: The Owner’s Manual,” “You: The Smart Patient,” “You: On a Diet” and “You: Staying Young.” He writes a regular column for Esquire and is the health expert on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Community Hospice of Greenwood House, based in Ewing, helps families to meet the challenges of end-of-life issues by providing support to both patients and their loved ones. Offering care, comfort, support and expertise in pain and symptom management, Community Hospice serves clients throughout Central Jersey, without regard to race, religion, national origin, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Benefit tickets start at $50 per person. For more event information, call Jenn Shetsen at 908-322-1100.
On the Web: www.greenwoodhouse.org.
‘Only the best’ with Hamilton Jewelers
Hamilton Jeweler’s Princeton shop will be hosting an evening with famed jewelry designer Temple St. Clair on Thursday, Oct. 30, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The affair will celebrate the launch of her new book, “ALCHEMY: A Passion for Jewels.” Ms. St. Clair is doing a very select number of personal appearances; Hamilton Jewelers is her only New Jersey appearance.
This exclusive and rare opportunity to meet one of the most important contemporary jewelry designers will feature “only the best food drink and company.” Guests will all receive a copy of “ALCHEMY,” with Hamilton Jewelers’ compliments, as well as have the chance to meet the woman behind the art and the opportunity view a rich selection of her collection.
Known for its impeccable colored gemstones and intricate 18-karat gold work, Temple St. Clair Fine Jewelry has attracted an avid following, including Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Beyonce, and Heidi Klum, among many women with an eye for classic modern style.
The woman behind the sensation, Ms. St. Clair never set out to become a famous jewelry designer. In fact, she rarely wore jewelry before she began creating her own works of art.
“Designing jewelry was never my plan,” she says. “I wasn’t looking for a career in the traditional sense. I wanted a lifestyle that would allow me to continue to travel, look at art and architecture, read, and explore. Somehow all of these interests culminated for me in jewelry.”
In “ALCHEMY: A Passion for Jewels “(Collins/Design, $49.95, hardcover, 224 pages), Ms. St. Clair reveals how her love of history, tradition, mythology, literature, nature, and adventure all led her into the jewelry world.
The reception is private, with limited seating. To inquire, call 609-683-4200.
Mellow cello — x 4
— with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra
Dr. and Mrs. Steven Gecha of Princeton are opening their home to the Princeton Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 5 p.m., for “an elegant afternoon concert and reception” that will feature the artistry of CELLO, the ensemble of four classically trained women cellists who have made their mark internationally through a repertory of works based in jazz, hip- hop, world music and contemporary classical music.
Sponsored once again by PNC Wealth Management, the musicale will benefit the PSO, which recently was cited for excellence by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for commissioning Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec’s new Clarinet Concerto. The work will receive its world premiere in January.
The minimum contribution for the CELLO event is $125 per person. Seating is limited. To receive an invitation, call 609-497-0020.
On the Web: www.princetonsymphony.org.
A stellar affair with Rago Arts
In 1956, while studying at Princeton University, Frank Stella picked up a framed cardboard print of a pastoral scene by Jan van Goyen at the Five and Dime on Nassau Street. When he arrived back at his studio, he turned the print over and began to paint. The result, an early, abstract work, never before shown publicly, will come to auction on Nov. 15 at Rago Arts and Auction Center in Lambertville.
The owner of the painting is Sigurd Waaben, a research physicist now retired from Princeton University — it was to him that Stella gave the piece as a wedding present in the fall of 1957. The two had become fast friends when Mr. Waaben lived above Stella’s studio. Stella visited Mr. Waaben and his wife (a graduate of Wellesley in art history) often for long conversations about art, science and their integration. Mr. Waaben is sure that the black painted hardwood floors in his son’s nursery influenced Stella’s masterpieces of the 1960s, telling the tale of Stella contemplating the parallel lines of the long black boards and the light that shone between them.
Rago Auctions is delighted to represent this new-found work in its next sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art. The pre- sale estimate is $40,000-$60,000.
On the Web: www.ragoarts.com.

