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Shakespeare Month on Classic Ross Amico

April marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. We’ll mark the occasion on Classic Ross Amico with a full month of programs inspired by his writings. That’s 20 hours worth of Shakespeare-related works – minus the weekly musician interviews, of course – as we enjoy overtures, incidental music, symphonic poems, art songs and choral works, all with a distinctive Bardic slant.

We’ll take a short break tomorrow in the 9:00 hour, as we are joined by representatives of Foundation Academies Charter School in Trenton. Students of the Academy will join cellist Michelle Djokic, artistic director of Concordia Chamber Players, for a fundraising concert at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion, this Saturday at 4 p.m.

Then on Sunday at 3 p.m., the students will attend Concordia’s next concert at Trinity Episcopal Church, Solebury, PA, that will feature works by Mozart, Brahms and Michael Daugherty. Hopefully you will consider being there, as well. We’ll hear more about it, plus the Foundation Academy’s “Stand Partners” program, during the course of their visit.

Then it’s back to the Bard! It’s all Shakespeare this month, every Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Where there’s a Will, there’s a way, on Classic Ross Amico.

#Shakespeare400

April 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
Concordia Chamber Players: Michelle Djokic in Concert

As a columnist, what do you do when there are three concerts in the area that really deserve coverage, but you can only really treat one of them? Why, begin with a discursive prologue, of course!

Michelle Djokic, artistic director of Concordia Chamber Players, is really the focus this week. The first of this season’s Concordia concerts will take place at Trinity Episcopal Church in Solebury, Pa., this Sunday at 3 p.m. It may sound a bit out of the way, but the venue is lovely, and the music-making is always first-rate. Also, they put out the best spread at intermission. (That last digression is courtesy of a hungry freelancer.)

Djokic was born in Trenton, one of seven (!) musical brothers and sisters. She now makes her home in the San Francisco Bay area, where she relocated to perform with the San Francisco Symphony. She currently plays in the New Century Chamber Orchestra under Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg.

Her family and her concerts with Concordia bring her back to the area a number of times each year. Now her relationship with Foundation Academy in downtown Trenton, where she conducts master classes with the kids, brings her back to her old neighborhood, in the vicinity of Cumberland Avenue.

The concert, her remarkable upbringing, and her relationship with the kids form the focus of this week’s article (once it gets going), so it’s amusing to me that the online version puts the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, mentioned in passing in the opening paragraph, in the headline.

Here’s the piece, in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/11/classical_music_nj_symphony_or.html

In the print edition, two words are cut (fine with me), but three typos slip by!

On a related note, Glenn Smith will host a broadcast of a concert given by Concordia this past February, which featured the String Quartet No. 1 by Alexander Zemlinsky and the astonishing Suite for 2 Violins, Cello and Piano Left-Hand by Zemlinsky’s pupil, Erich Wolfgang Korngold. You can enjoy the broadcast today at 12 p.m. ET, at http://www.wwfm.org.

PHOTO: Michelle Djokic instructing the students at Trenton’s Foundation Academy Intermediate. Sadly, none of Peggy Krist’s photos made it into the paper (the article was probably too long), or even online.

November 7, 2014

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