Do you have ambitions to be a composer, but can’t afford to spend your summer like Gustav Mahler, scribbling in the Alps? The Signum Quartett and Princeton Symphony Orchestra provide an intriguing alternative. Express your musical thoughts in 140 characters or less, as part of the #quartweet project. Read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times:
http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/08/classical_music_princeton_symp_2.html
Now that moderate temperatures and Daylight Saving Time have lulled us into a sense of security, it’s okay for local symphony orchestras to trot out the Nordic composers.
On Saturday, Sinfonietta Nova will present music by the great Danes, Carl Nielsen and Niels Wilhelm Gade (on a concert which will also include works by Pablo de Sarasate and William Boyce), and on Sunday, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra will perform music by Jean Sibelius (on a concert which will also include works by Robert Schumann, Jules Massenet and Sebastian Currier).
Sinfonietta Nova will appear at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Princeton Junction (Saturday at 7:30 p.m.); the Princeton Symphony will perform at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium (Sunday at 4 p.m.).
Put on your Bermuda shorts and read all about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times:
http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/03/classical_music_two_orchestras.html
PHOTOS: They scoff at your snow: Jean Sibelius (left) and Carl Nielsen
PLEASE NOTE: If you are a lover of classic film music and also an early riser, tomorrow morning’s rebroadcast of “Picture Perfect” (6 ET) comes deep from within the archive. Because of the nature of tonight’s special two-hour Oscar Party, full of references to the 8:00 broadcast of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s “A Silver Screen Salute,” I’ve decided to bypass the daunting editing process and instead selected a tribute to Bette Davis from 2011.
The program will include music from “Now, Voyager” (Max Steiner), “Mr. Skeffington” (Franz Waxman), “All About Eve” (Alfred Newman) and “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex” (Erich Wolfgang Korngold).
Davis was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and won twice, early, for Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938), though she turned in solid performances for pretty much her entire career. There is little about her style which doesn’t scream “ACTING!” So it seems only an appropriate choice for this Academy Awards weekend.
Listen to it here: http://www.wwfm.org.
In fact, if you read this between 8 and 10 tonight, tune in to catch the Princeton Symphony Orchestra concert. It’s a lot of fun.
BTW – Tonight’s “Picture Perfect” Oscar Party will be archived on the WWFM website as a webcast. However, the PSO “Silver Screen Salute” will not.
If, like me, you are nutty in the nutbone for classic movie music, you might want to join me tomorrow night for a special two-hour “Picture Perfect,” as we look ahead to the 87th Academy Awards.
Beginning at 6 ET, we commence our annual Oscar party, with wall-to-wall music from Academy Award-winning films, with selections from “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” “Ben-Hur,” “The Godfather” and many others. We’ll also sample from this year’s nominees for Best Original Score.
Then at 8, I’ll introduce the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, in a broadcast of their February 7 concert, held at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium, as music director Rossen Milanov takes the podium for the orchestra’s first ever “Silver Screen Salute.”
The concert will include music from “Gone with the Wind,” “The Magnificent Seven,” “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Star Wars,” among others. The American Boychoir will appear in John Williams’ “Empire of the Sun,” “Amistad” and “Saving Private Ryan,” as well as in “Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz.”
Milanov and Chris Collier of the Princeton Garden Theatre will join me at intermission to talk about movies and the PSO concert.
Butter up the popcorn! We’re ready for our close-up. Four hours of movie music magic, on “Picture Perfect” and the PSO’s “A Silver Screen Salute,” starting Friday evening at 6, at http://www.wwfm.org.
PLEASE NOTE: There will be no webcast for the PSO concert, so be there, or be square!
Lights! Camera! Music?
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra will present “A Silver Screen Salute” on February 7 at 8 p.m.
The concert, which will take place at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium, will include some of film’s most evocative music, including themes from “Gone with the Wind,” “The Magnificent Seven,” “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Star Wars.”
Also featured will be Academy Award winning music by Franz Waxman for “Sunset Boulevard,” Bernard Herrmann’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” Ennio Morricone’s poignant melodies for “Cinema Paradiso,” and John Williams’ Indiana Jones march from “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
The PSO will be joined by The American Boychoir for selections from Williams’ “Empire of the Sun,” “Amistad,” and “Saving Private Ryan,” as well as Herbert Stothart’s score for “The Wizard of Oz,” on themes of Harold Arlen.
NPR arts commentator Bob Mondello will host the event. Read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times.
http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/01/princeton_symphony_orchestra_p.html
PHOTO: PSO Music Director Rossen Milanov, ready for his close-up
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