Is this the The American Boychoir’s most important concert? It might very well be.

“… [W]e are approaching a very important date for us, and that is the date where we are going to be meeting with the bankruptcy judge that is going to look at our finances and our financial model and is going to in essence decide whether we can continue or not,” says the ensemble’s artistic director Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, who nevertheless manages to remain upbeat.

“We are looking great for this,” he says. “For example, in terms of music bookings, we are well ahead of the curve. Next year is all booked, and we are starting to book the following one. In terms of tuition money, we are well ahead of predictions. The only thing where we are not quite there is in our annual fund. That is something that we would really like to get as high as possible so that everything is looking not only as we predicted, but beyond. This benefit concert, hopefully, will help us raise some of the money that we still need to get there. But we are almost there.”

The concert will take place on Sunday at 4 p.m. at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. You can read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/06/classical_music_american_boych_1.html