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JoAnn Falletta’s WPRB Radio Fest

It’s a Falletta Fest! All recordings of works conducted and/or played by JoAnn Falletta this morning on WPRB.

Falletta is in Princeton with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for this year’s NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, five days of intensive compositional evaluations and consultations, master classes and career-building opportunities, which will culminate in a live concert performance of participating composers’ works. The concert, including four new works and a piece by Institute director Steven Mackey, will take place at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium Saturday at 8 p.m.

We’ll celebrate Falletta’s return by sampling from her vast discography, with orchestral music by, among others, Romeo Cascarino, Kenneth Fuchs, Jack Gallagher, E.J. Moeran, Jerome Moross, Behzad Ranjbaran, Igor Stravinsky, and Marcel Tyberg, performed by orchestras with which Falletta has had fruitful associations, including the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, and the Women’s Philharmonic.

We’ll also listen to a couple of new releases of music by Richard Strauss and Vítězslav Novák, issued on the Naxos label, a rare recording featuring Falletta as guitarist, and two that she made with her husband, the clarinetist Robert Alemany.

Falletta herself will drop by around 9:00 to talk about the institute and some of her other projects. She’s always very busy, with plenty of concerts, festivals and recordings in the pipeline.

I hope you’ll join me this morning for some entrancing musical rarities, courtesy of JoAnn Falletta, on Classic Ross Amico, from 6 to 11 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com.

July 13, 2017
JoAnn Falletta Returns to WPRB

I am very pleased to announce that JoAnn Falletta has agreed to return as my guest this week on WPRB.

Falletta is in Princeton as part of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Edward T. Cone Composition Institute. Four emerging composers will have their works rehearsed and performed by the NJSO, participate in masterclasses with Institute Director Steven Mackey, receive feedback from NJSO musicians, and benefit from career-building advice from music-industry leaders.

Falletta will help mentor the composers and then conduct the orchestra in representative works by Noah Kaplan, Sam Lipman, Alyssa Weinberg, and another former Classic Ross Amico guest, Saad Haddad, alongside Mackey’s “Four Iconoclastic Episodes.” The concert, which is open to the public, will take place at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium this Saturday at 8 p.m.

Tune in to WPRB this Thursday morning at 9:00 to hear Falletta talk about the institute and some of her other projects. As music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, she’s always very busy, with plenty of concerts, festivals and recordings in the pipeline. Falletta has championed dozens of works that could easily be classified as unusual and neglected. She is also an indefatigable champion of new music.

To celebrate her return to Princeton, we’ll enjoy a full morning of her recordings, including selections from new releases of music by Richard Strauss and Vítězslav Novák on the Naxos label. Mark your calendars for another Falletta Fest on Classic Ross Amico, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com.

Meet the composer, Saad Haddad:

http://www.njsymphony.org/about-njso/newsroom/in-the-news/meet-the-cone-institute-composers-saad-haddad

July 12, 2017
Zukerman’s NJSO Winter Festival Focuses on Education

Widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of the past half century, Pinchas Zukerman comes across as remarkably free of ego. He’s more interested in cultivating the next generation of musicians. In fact, if you try to ask him anything about his upcoming concerts with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, education is all he wants to talk about.

He’s especially excited about several initiatives being undertaken by the orchestra in the coming weeks, which include a plan to host young string players from the Manhattan School of Music. The students will participate in the NJSO’s performances of Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony, on January 26, 28 & 29, following a period of intensive mentorship.

Zukerman is artistic director of this year’s NJSO Winter Festival, appearing as both soloist and conductor on three programs in as many weeks. Each concert will be performed in three separate venues across the state – six in all – starting tonight at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark. Other locations will include bergenPAC (Bergen Performing Arts Center) in Englewood, Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, Mayo Performing Arts Center – MPAC in Morristown, and the State Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick.

On January 20, Zukerman will be appear at Richardson Auditorium in Princeton, as soloist in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Also on the program will be Samuel Barber’s “School for Scandal Overture” and Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 “Organ.” Christian Vásquez will take the podium for the 8 p.m. concert.

You can learn more about the NJSO Winter Festival, Zukerman and Vásquez in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2017/01/classical_music_njsos_winter_f.html

January 13, 2017
NJ Classical Concerts Your 2017 Resolution

No matter what 2017 may hold, you should make it a New Year’s resolution to catch as many concerts as you can. Check out representative enticements from the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, McCarter Theatre Center, the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey, Princeton University Concerts, Downtown Concert Series, Princeton University Glee Club, Princeton University Orchestra, Princeton Pro Musica, Boheme Opera NJ, Westminster Opera Theatre, VOICES Chorale, and Westminster Community Orchestra, in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2017/01/classical_music_several_local.html

IMAGE: While we’re on the subject of musical resolutions…

January 6, 2017
NJ Holiday Concerts Guide 2024

Once again, it’s time to deck the halls – the concert halls, that is. The area’s performing arts groups are ready to dish up a veritable banquet of holiday fare. Unfortunately, I’m told a glitch at nj.com has kept my whirlwind overview of some of the season’s highlights from posting online.

I encourage you to explore the schedules of The American Boychoir, the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey, Capital Singers of Trenton, Central Jersey Choral Society, 1867 Sanctuary at Ewing, Hopewell Valley Chorus, McCarter Theatre Center, New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus – NJGMC, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Princeton University Chapel Choir, Princeton Girlchoir Princeton Pro Musica, The Princeton-Rider Brass Band, The Princeton Singers, Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs – PSMA, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Riverside Symphonia, the State Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick, the Trenton Children’s Chorus, VOICES Chorale, Westminster Concert Bell Choir, Westminster Choir College, Westminster Community Choir, and Westminster Community Orchestra.

It remains to be seen how many of these made it past the editors into today’s print edition of the Trenton Times.

PHOTO: Trenton Children’s Chorus will be here, there and everywhere this holiday season, appearing with Princeton Pro Musica (Dec. 11) and VOICES Chorale (Dec. 11, 17 & 18), on their own Winter Concert (Dec. 9), and at the Mayor’s Holiday Concert at the Trenton War Memorial (Dec. 17)

November 25, 2016

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