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Youth Orchestra & Girlchoir Concerts This Weekend

For two local organizations that focus on young musicians, the future is now. Three concerts to be performed this weekend by the Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey (YOCJ) and the Princeton Girlchoir will demonstrate that music is shaping tomorrow today.

On Sunday at 3 & 7 p.m., YOCJ will present two separate programs at The College of New Jersey’s Kendall Hall. The afternoon program will include performances by its String Preparatory Orchestra, Wind Symphony and Pro Arte Orchestra. The evening program will include performances by the Saxophone Choir and Symphonic Orchestra.

Jennifer Montone will be the soloist for the Symphonic Orchestra concert, performing Emmanuel Chabrier’s “Larghetto” for horn and orchestra. Montone is the Principal Horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She also teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School. Her recording of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Horn Concerto with the Warsaw National Philharmonic was the recipient of a Grammy Award in 2013.

On March 21, Montone will visit West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North to conduct an interactive master class with students and brass ensembles. The master class is free and open to the public.

Also on Sunday evening, at 6 p.m., the Princeton Girlchoir will take to the stage at McCarter Theatre Center’s Matthews Theatre for its winter concert, “United in Song.” The program will bring together the organization’s six choirs, which range from the youngest beginners to the most polished pre-collegiate singers. The repertoire will include a wide variety of selections, from classical and folk song to contemporary.

The choirs will be directed by Lynnel Joy Jenkins, Melissa Keylock, Fred Meads and John Wilson. Two of the selections will feature the full battery of 290 girls. The last, Benjamin Britten’s “A New Year Carol,” will incorporate Princeton Girlchoir alumni.

Find out more about both organizations and all three events in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

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

January 20, 2017
Youthful Music Britten Copland on WPRB

Youth may be wasted on the young, at least according to George Bernard Shaw, but a skillful composer knows how to make the most of youthful talent.

Join me tomorrow morning on WPRB, as we listen to music written for young musicians, by such composers as Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Zoltán Kodály, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Robert Moran, Carl Orff, and Grace Williams.

We’ll also be visited by representatives of the Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey, which will perform two concerts this Sunday at Kendall Hall on the campus of The College of New Jersey in Ewing, and the Princeton Girlchoir, which will appear at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton on Sunday night.

It will be a veritable fountain of youth tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. I may be an old soul, but I’m also nothing if not young at heart, on Classic Ross Amico.

Benjamin Britten and his menagerie, rehearsing the chamber opera “Noye’s Fludde”

January 19, 2017
Youth Music on the Radio This Sunday

O sweet bird of youth!

No, it’s not Tennessee Williams. Rather, it’s a full morning of music written especially for young performers.

We’ll have selections by Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Zoltán Kodály, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, William Mathias, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Robert Moran, Carl Orff, and Grace Williams, among others.

Furthermore, in the 9:00 hour, Larisa Epps will drop by from the Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey. YOCJ will present two concerts this Sunday at Kendall Hall on the campus of The College of New Jersey in Ewing. She’ll tell us a little bit about the programs and her worthwhile organization. Then at 10:00, we’ll be joined by Hilary Butler of the Princeton Girlchoir, which will appear at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton on Sunday night.

I welcome you into my sandbox, this morning from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Radio can certainly age you, but the music will keep you young, on Classic Ross Amico.

January 19, 2017
Princeton Vocal Arts Abound This Week

If you are an admirer of the vocal arts, there is much to enjoy over the next nine days, with concerts being given by the Capital Singers of Trenton (tonight at 7:30, at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church in Princeton), Princeton Girlchoir (a benefit concert at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, tomorrow at 5), Westminster Williamson Voices (at Westminster Choir College’s Bristol Chapel, tomorrow at 8 p.m.), Westminster Choir (also at Bristol Chapel, Sunday at 3), Westminster Kantorei (at Bristol on 11/20 at 8), The Dryden Ensemble (an all-Purcell program at Princeton Theological Seminary’s Miller Chapel, on 11/21 at 7:30, and Trinity Episcopal Church in Solebury, Pa., on 11/22 at 3), and Westminster Jubilee Singers (at Bristol, on 11/22 at 7).

The Princeton Girlchoir will join The Princeton Singers for the New Jersey premiere of Steven Sametz’s “A Child’s Requiem,” written in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. On the same program will be Vaughan Williams’ poignant “Serenade to Music” (at Princeton Meadow Church and Event Center, on 11/21 at 8 p.m.).

It’s a lot to take in. Find out more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/11/classical_music_bevy_of_concer.html

November 13, 2015
Fantasia’s Rite & Princeton Girlchoir Benefit

We’re fighting for the “Rite” to party this week. Coming up in just a few minutes, we’ll hear a vintage recording of the Philadelphia Orchestra performing “The Rite of Spring,” as we continue our celebration of the 75th anniversary of Walt Disney’s “Fantasia,” which was released on November 13, 1940.

Also keeping us young at heart, representatives of Princeton Girlchoir will drop by at around 9:30 to tell us about the group’s upcoming benefit concert, “Children Making a Difference,” which will be held at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton this Saturday at 5:00. You can find out more about it at http://www.princetongirlchoir.org.

It’s all recordings conducted by Leopold Stokowski this morning, until 11 ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM and online at wprb.com.

November 12, 2015

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