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Princeton Festival Goes Digital

The Princeton Festival is one of the many local arts organizations that’s begun to share musical material from its archive, as we all continue to figure out ways to navigate a world plagued by coronavirus.

Unavoidably, this June’s festival has been cancelled, with an optimistic projection that some of the events could be rescheduled for the fall.

In the meantime, the festival is making available podcasts and music files for our delectation, with further, digital content promised, including online educational workshops, poetry readings, and Princeton Festival performances.

This week, PF highlights Michelle Djokic, cellist and artistic director of Concordia Chamber Players. Concordia has long been a festival staple, but also presents a regular chamber music series, right across the Delaware River, at its home in the New Hope vicinity of Bucks County.

Hear a conversation with Michelle Djokic here:

Then enjoy Concordia performances of works by Mendelssohn and Kodály as part of the Princeton Festival’s growing archive of online music files.

https://princetonfestival.org/music-archive/

You can learn more about the Princeton Festival at its website or by following the organization on Facebook and Instagram.

Last week’s conversation with festival artistic and executive director Richard Tang Yuk has been posted to the Princeton Festival YouTube channel.

April 16, 2020
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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