Anyone else plan to be in attendance when Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Tuba Concerto is performed in Princeton this weekend?

The work will appear on two concerts by the Princeton University Orchestra, on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Wesley Sanders (’26) will be the soloist. Also on the program will be Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto, with Kaivalya Kulkami (’26), and Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, with Daniel Lee (’27). Michael Pratt will conduct.

Looking ahead, there’s more English music in the offing for the spring, when Edward Elgar’s milestone oratorio “The Dream of Gerontius” will be performed on April 19 & 20.

All concerts will be held at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on the campus of Princeton University. I last heard the students play “Ein Heldenleben” there last season and was suitably impressed.

View the rehearsal clips on the Princeton University Orchestra Facebook page. Then, for tickets and information, visit music.princeton.edu/events/

PHOTO: Vaughan Williams, looking as miserable as you would imagine, being serenaded by the tuba. The composer wrote the first ever concerto for the instrument in 1954. A late and unusual work, the piece was dedicated to Philip Catelinet, principal tubist of the London Symphony Orchestra. “Glorious John” Barbirolli conducted the premiere. These are the forces heard on the work’s first recording. Give a listen, and I’ll see you at Richardson.