As a columnist, what do you do when there are three concerts in the area that really deserve coverage, but you can only really treat one of them? Why, begin with a discursive prologue, of course!

Michelle Djokic, artistic director of Concordia Chamber Players, is really the focus this week. The first of this season’s Concordia concerts will take place at Trinity Episcopal Church in Solebury, Pa., this Sunday at 3 p.m. It may sound a bit out of the way, but the venue is lovely, and the music-making is always first-rate. Also, they put out the best spread at intermission. (That last digression is courtesy of a hungry freelancer.)

Djokic was born in Trenton, one of seven (!) musical brothers and sisters. She now makes her home in the San Francisco Bay area, where she relocated to perform with the San Francisco Symphony. She currently plays in the New Century Chamber Orchestra under Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg.

Her family and her concerts with Concordia bring her back to the area a number of times each year. Now her relationship with Foundation Academy in downtown Trenton, where she conducts master classes with the kids, brings her back to her old neighborhood, in the vicinity of Cumberland Avenue.

The concert, her remarkable upbringing, and her relationship with the kids form the focus of this week’s article (once it gets going), so it’s amusing to me that the online version puts the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, mentioned in passing in the opening paragraph, in the headline.

Here’s the piece, in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/11/classical_music_nj_symphony_or.html

In the print edition, two words are cut (fine with me), but three typos slip by!

On a related note, Glenn Smith will host a broadcast of a concert given by Concordia this past February, which featured the String Quartet No. 1 by Alexander Zemlinsky and the astonishing Suite for 2 Violins, Cello and Piano Left-Hand by Zemlinsky’s pupil, Erich Wolfgang Korngold. You can enjoy the broadcast today at 12 p.m. ET, at http://www.wwfm.org.

PHOTO: Michelle Djokic instructing the students at Trenton’s Foundation Academy Intermediate. Sadly, none of Peggy Krist’s photos made it into the paper (the article was probably too long), or even online.