So many worthwhile orchestral performances scheduled to take place in and around Mercer County this season. Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Mahler’s 7th at McCarter Theatre Center. Enrique Bátiz in a program featuring Manuel Ponce’s Piano Concerto at the State Theatre in New Brunswick. Cellist Zuill Bailey with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. Excerpts from Samuel Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra” performed by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. A Verdi Requiem with the Princeton University Glee Club and Princeton University Orchestra. Niels Wilhelm Gade’s Symphony No. 7 with Sinfonietta Nova. Also, local performances of Howard Hanson’s “Romantic” Symphony (the TCNJ Orchestra) and George Antheil’s “Capital of the World” (the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Orchestra).

Read more about it in my orchestral overview in today’s The Times of Trenton.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/08/area_orchestras_announce_conce.html

PHOTO: MTT will conduct GM in Princeton