The curtain rods come in for a fair amount of abuse as I write about Erich Wolfgang Korngold and John Williams for this week’s edition of Princeton U.S. 1.

The Capital Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey will present an all-Williams concert at Trenton’s Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Saxophonist Jonathan Wintringham will be the soloist in “Escapades,” a concerto on themes from the Steven Spielberg film “Catch Me If You Can.” CPNJ music director Daniel Spalding will conduct.

Then the Princeton Symphony Orchestra will present Korngold’s Violin Concerto on a program that will also include Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Elegía Andina” (“Andean Elegy”) and Felix Mendelssohn “Scottish Symphony,” at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on May 7 & 8. Stefan Jackiw will be the soloist in a work that lifts its thematic material from classic film scores of the 1930s and ‘40s. PSO music director Rossen Milanov will conduct.

Catch me if you can, as I outline a film music continuum, and along the way reveal the source of my lifelong passions for swashbuckling swordfights and symphony orchestras, in this week’s U.S. 1 newspaper, out today.

https://www.communitynews.org/princetoninfo/artsandentertainment/regional-orchestras-go-for-hollywood-sound/article_1058f9a6-c01b-11ec-9a2d-5f75837c82c9.html

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