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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
Jayce Ogren Conducts Tchaikovsky in Princeton

Conductor Jayce Ogren is a man of many disciplines. He served as assistant conductor of one of America’s “Big Five” orchestras (Cleveland). He was music director of the New York City Opera. He is now artistic director of Philadelphia’s ‘new music’ ensemble, Orchestra 2001.

Ogren will be in Princeton this weekend to guest conduct the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in a program titled “Impassioned Russia.” The concert will include Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.6, the “Pathètique.” Natasha Paremski will be the soloist in Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The concert will be held on Sunday at 4 p.m. at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium.

Next season, he plans to bring Orchestra 2001 together with PSK: The Princeton Sound Kitchen for a special series. PSK specializes in music by Princeton University graduate students and faculty composers.

You can learn more about Ogren, and his personal connection to the Princeton community, in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/11/classical_music_pso_performing_2.html

Of perhaps related interest: WWFM – The Classical Network will broadcast the PSO’s October 9th concert, which featured Leila Josefowicz as soloist in Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto and music director Rossen Milanov conducting works by Franz Schubert and Julian Grant, tonight at 8:00 EDT. Listen locally at 89.1 FM or online at wwfm.org.

November 4, 2016
Beethoven’s 9th Princeton Performance Celebrated

Hooray! We made our goal! Now here’s a little something for YOU.

To celebrate the successful conclusion of WWFM’s Autumn Membership Campaign, I will introduce a new recording, which turned up in my mailbox only yesterday afternoon, of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, conducted by Mark Laycock.

Mark Laycock, long-time music director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and former associate conductor of the New Jersey Symphony, will be joined by soloists, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and the Westminster Symphonic Choir, in this performance that took place at Richardson Auditorium, in Alexander Hall, on the campus of Princeton University.

Beethoven’s symphony was the capstone of a concert given on January 25, 2014, to celebrate the 100th birthday of American scholar, philanthropist, and human rights advocate William H. Scheide, who was in attendance. The event was televised as part of PBS’ “Great Performances” series earlier this year.

Join us as I share this “Ode to Joy” – a new recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Mark Laycock – this afternoon at 4:00, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org. And thank you for making our autumn membership campaign a success!

PHOTOS: Mark Laycock (left) and William H. Scheide, pictured with his wife Judith, accepting a bouquet at his 100th birthday concert at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium

October 28, 2016
Schubert Octet Live Stream Princeton Symphony

Would you like to hear Schubert’s Octet performed by visiting artist Daniel Rowland – violin and principal musicians of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra? Good luck getting seats! The audience for tonight’s concert at the Institute for Advanced Study’s Wolfensohn Hall is already at capacity. However, the PSO is offering live streaming of the event through its website. The performance begins at 7:30 EDT.

http://princetonsymphony.org/#events/the-schubert-octet/

September 22, 2016
Jazz Meets Classics on WPRB

Woody Herman plays Stravinsky. Benny Goodman plays Bartók. Wynton Marsalis plays Jolivet. Arturo Sandoval plays Arutiunian. Keith Jarrett plays Barber. Jazz artists perform the classics this morning on WPRB, with a few examples of “Third Stream” (Gunther Schuller’s term for a synthesis of classical and jazz) tossed in for good measure.

As an added bonus, Marc Uys, executive director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, will stop by around 9:00 to talk about a special concert being held tonight at 8 p.m. at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. Violinist Daniel Rowland will appear as soloist and conductor in Astor Piazzolla’s “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires,” which will be interleaved with the concertos of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.” Rowland has performed the program many times and has even made a very fine recording of it (from which we will sample).

Otherwise, hepcats put on the dog this morning, as jazz artists perform the classics, from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’re having ourselves a classical clambake, on Classic Ross Amico.

PHOTO: (left to right) Béla Bartók, Joseph Szigeti and Benny Goodman

September 15, 2016

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