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Michael Torke July Saxophone Quartet

It’s getting rather late in the day on July 5. I’m kind of tapped out after the holiday, so here’s a brief essay for saxophone quartet by Michael Torke, called “July.”

July 6, 2016
Chamber Music Blooms in Princeton & Beyond

Chamber music concerts are springing up like daffodils this weekend.

Concordia Chamber Players will present its final subscription concert of the season – with music by Frank Bridge, Dmitri Shostakovich and Gabriel Fauré – Sunday at 3 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church in Solebury, Pa.

Soprello – consisting of soprano Allison Pohl and Princeton Symphony Orchestra cellist Alistair MacRae – will perform music by Henry Purcell, Rick Sowash, Steven Gerber, David Dzubay, Gilbert & Sullivan, John Tavener and Robert Schumann, Sunday at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. (The program will be repeated at Monroe Township Public Library, Monday at 1 p.m.)

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – in its current incarnation of Daniel Hope, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; David Finckel, cello; and Wu Han piano – will appear Monday at 7:30 p.m. at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton. The concert will include piano quartets by Mahler, Schumann and Brahms.

You can read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/04/classical_music_concordia_cham.html#incart_related_stories

Also, don’t forget: Lenape Chamber Ensemble will perform music by Mozart, George Rochberg and Max Bruch, tonight at 8:15 p.m. at Upper Tinicum Lutheran Church in Upper Black Eddy, Pa., and Sunday at 3 p.m. at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown.

This was covered in last week’s article:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/03/classical_music_concerts_in_pr.html

PHOTO: Pickles the Fox likes daffodils. More wildlife photos by Matt Binstead of the British Wildlife Centre here: http://mattbinstead.blogspot.com/.

April 10, 2015
Chamber Music Abounds This Weekend in NJ

Plenty going on this weekend, with chamber music concerts all over the place. Of course, Gabriel Crouch’s Princeton University Glee Club will be celebrating the 300th anniversary of the coronation of George I at Richardson Auditorium tonight at 7:30 p.m., with music by Purcell, Handel and Walton, among others, but I feel like I write about him and them all the time, so I thought I’d give some other groups a chance.

If you’re looking for something to read over breakfast (or lunch), here’s my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/02/classical_music_chamber_music.html

February 27, 2015
Trenton Times Chamber Music & Media Changes

Last week, I put together my annual season round-up of area orchestral concerts; this week, the focus is on chamber and instrumental music.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/09/chamber_music_ensembles_announ.html

It also happens to be the last article to be supervised by my long-suffering editors, Jim Berrie and Michael Mancuso. Over the years, Jim and Michael have come to expect copy one-third longer than quota, turned in at least 24 hours late. I’ve greatly appreciated their personable approach and unflagging sense of humor. They always made everything a lot less stressful than it could have been. I will miss them both.

Big changes coming to The Times of Trenton, as NJ Advanced Media absorbs Advance Publication newspapers. Starting next week, I fear I may have to think less like a Victorian novelist and more like a haiku poet.

Here’s the official line, published in March:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/03/faq_nj_advance_media.html

And an article about pervasive layoffs, from April:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/04/layoffs_at_star-ledger_njcom_other_advance_newspapers_top_300_1.html

So it goes.

PHOTO: Sunset for some at the Times

September 5, 2014

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