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American Boychoir’s решающий концерт

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

June 3, 2016
Princeton Reunions Weekend Music on WPRB

The first post-Prince Princeton Reunions Weekend will take place, starting today, at Princeton University. Whether you’re looking ahead to the P-rade, the concerts, or the fireworks, or you’re simply circling for a parking space, consider tuning in to WPRB to enjoy a full morning of music composed or performed by Princeton faculty and alumni.

Needless to say, Princeton University has had an exceptionally rich musical history, between the mid-century experimentalists, the visiting professors and talented students from around the world, and at least two Pulitzer Prize winners (three if you count Milton Babbitt’s lifetime achievement award). The scene remains vibrant, and we’ll hear works representative of Princeton’s current faculty composers and performers. Music by Milton Babbitt, Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, and Roger Sessions will be presented cheek-by-jowl with that of Johann Sebastian Bach, Camille Saint-Saëns, Isaac Albéniz and Benjamin Britten.

Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Litton-Lodal Artistic Director of The American Boychoir, will stop by at around 7:45 to tell us about the organization’s upcoming benefit concert, which will be held at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on June 5 at 4 p.m.

We’ll have the eye of The Tiger, or at least his or her ear, as we present music composed and performed by Princeton University faculty and alumni, from 6 to 11 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Orange is the color of our true love’s hair, on Classic Ross Amico.

#PrincetonReunions

May 26, 2016
American Boychoir Spreads Holiday Cheer

At the end of what has been a turbulent year, The American Boychoir is back, doing what it does best – spreading hope and good cheer through the purity of its sound.

Princeton’s boychoir is America’s boychoir. I hope you’ll step up and support them this holiday season. The choir will present its “most important concert of the year” at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium, this Sunday at 4 p.m.

Read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/12/classical_music_american_boych.html

December 18, 2015
Sibelius The Silence From Järvenpää

For the last 30 years of his life, Sibelius was gripped by what became known as “The Silence from Järvenpää.” Järvenpää is the Finnish market town outside which the composer made his home, which he called Ainola (after his wife, Aino, who in turn was named for a character in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic).

After the completion of the 7th Symphony and the tone poem “Tapiola” in the mid-1920s, Sibelius created no more major works, though he grappled with the composition of an 8th symphony, which he eventually destroyed. He spent his later years being lionized by visiting conductors and listening to performances of his music over the radio.

Until then, however, he wrote prolifically, and this morning on WPRB, we’ll have another chance to sample from his unique output, with major works like the symphonies, of course (we have yet to hear Symphonies No. 2, 6 and 7), but we’ll also listen to some of the tone poems, miniatures, and reams of incidental music he composed for the Swedish Theater in Helsinki.

Our guests this morning will be Melissa Malvar and Fernando Malvar-Ruiz of The American Boychoir, who will be dropping by at around 7:30 to tell us a little bit about the group’s upcoming Christmas concert, “Home for the Holidays,” a Princeton tradition, which will take place at Richardson Auditorium on December 20 at 4 p.m.

Otherwise, it’s wall-to-wall Sibelius, as we wrap up loose ends from the sesquicentennial celebrations of his birth, on December 8, 1865. Join me from 6 to 11 ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM or at wprb.com. We’ll rail against The Silence, on Classic Ross Amico.

#Sibelius150 #12DaysOfSibelius

PHOTO: Sir Thomas Beecham drops in on Sibelius

December 10, 2015
Opera’s Dark Elf and Bird Droppings at Princeton

Only opera can promise a malevolent elf and an old man blinded by bird droppings.

Gabriel Crouch will conduct Princeton University Opera Theater, along with members of the Princeton Girlchoir and The American Boychoir, in a double-bill of Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” and Jonathan Dove’s “Tobias and the Angel,” tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m., at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium.

To learn more, check out my article in today’s Trenton Times.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/01/classical_music_princeton_doub.html

You might not want to sit too close to the stage when the sparrows arrive.

(To see the boys in their bird costumes, click on “The American Boychoir,” above.)

January 9, 2015

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