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  • Pretty Yende Sings in Princeton With PSO

    Pretty Yende Sings in Princeton With PSO

    More than just a pretty voice, soprano superstar Pretty Yende will display her versatility in Princeton this weekend, on a pair of concerts presented by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra.

    The second half of the program, as might be expected, will feature sparkling arias from Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and Verdi’s “La traviata;” but the first half of the concert, devoted to American music, will include Yende’s soulful rendition of Samuel Barber’s nostalgic and poignant “Knoxville: Summer of 1915.” Also on the program will be overtures from Rossini and Verdi operas and Aaron Copland’s Pulitzer Prize winning masterwork, “Appalachian Spring.”

    Put a spring in your step with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, at Richardson Auditorium this Saturday evening at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon at 4:00. Sunday’s performance will be a preceded by an onstage conversation with music director Rossen Milanov at 3:00. For tickets and information, visit princetonsymphony.org.

    Curious to learn more about “Knoxville?” The PSO will host musicologist Austin Stewart, as he reflects on the backgrounds of both Barber’s composition and the James Agee text upon which it is based, at Princeton Public Library this Thursday evening at 7:00. The library event is free and open to the public.

  • Princeton Symphony Britten Elgar Weekend

    English music in Princeton this weekend: Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto, with Elina Vähälä, and one of my desert island favorites, Elgar’s “Enigma Variations.” (No Vaughan Williams, sadly.)

    The @[100043116381457:2048:Princeton Symphony Orchestra] performs on two concerts at Richardson Auditorium, Saturday evening at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon at 4:00. Tickets and information here: https://princetonsymphony.org/

  • Anne Akiko Meyers Returns to NJ with Márquez

    Anne Akiko Meyers Returns to NJ with Márquez

    I first saw Anne Akiko Meyers with the Philadelphia Orchestra at The Mann Center back in 1991 (playing Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto), and she was very special indeed. Ten years earlier, at the age of 11, she was already performing on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.” The next year, she made her “Top 5” debut, with the New York Philharmonic. Meyers has long since been in demand as one of the world’s top-tier violinists.

    This weekend, she will be the soloist on the opening concerts of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in Arturo Márquez’s Violin Concerto “Fandango,” a piece that was given its premiere, by Meyers, last summer at the Hollywood Bowl.

    The concerto will form the core of a Latin-inflected program that will also include Ruperto Chapí’s prelude to the zarzuela “La Revoltosa” and the U.S. premiere of Marcos Fernández-Barrero’s homage to Leonard Bernstein, “America.”

    Joaquín Turina’s evocative “Danzas fantásticas” and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s colorful “Capriccio espagnol” will lend further zest to this musical paella.

    Music director Rossen Milanov will conduct.

    The concerts will take place at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium this Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 4 pm. For tickets and more information, visit princetonsymphony.org.

    Meyers on “Living the Classical Life”

  • Princeton Festival: Storm Large & Carmen Suite

    Princeton Festival: Storm Large & Carmen Suite

    The all-new The Princeton Festival (the first overseen by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra) begins this evening at 7:30, with Storm Large in Kurt Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins.” On the second half of the program: Rodion Shchedrin’s colorful arrangement for strings and percussion of Bizet’s most famous music as the “Carmen Suite.”

    Rossen Milanov will conduct, in a specially-constructed outdoor 10,000 square foot state-of-the-art performance tent on the grounds of Morven Museum & Garden on Route 206 (55 Stockton Street), not far from the Princeton Battle Monument.

    The Princeton Festival runs through June 25, with a variety of musical events filling every evening: opera, jazz, cabaret, musical theater, chamber music, classical and Broadway pops, and Baroque music across the street at Trinity Episcopal Church.

    Partake of free pre-concert talks, a poetry workshop, an on-site bar, and abundant lawn space at Morven for picnicking prior to the concerts. For a complete schedule, visit princetonsymphony.org/festival.

    In case you missed it, here’s my preview in last week’s U.S. 1

    https://www.communitynews.org/princetoninfo/artsandentertainment/the-princeton-festival-is-back-and-bigger/article_0b6d5f26-e15a-11ec-899e-bb3efc959786.html?fbclid=IwAR1RCqnHp8sW5DSsXfPC73DRoGqDeZWtm4RjYGL9X2riEUO1eBPIIsiOlec

    The raising of the tent!

    Storm Large sings “The Seven Deadly Sins” with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Rodion Shchedrin’s “Carmen Suite”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QysD8zCfGTs

    Direct link to tickets for tonight’s concert

    https://princetonsymphony.org/performances/seven-deadly-sins/2022-06-10

  • Princeton NJ Orchestras Explore Hollywood Sound

    Princeton NJ Orchestras Explore Hollywood Sound

    The curtain rods come in for a fair amount of abuse as I write about Erich Wolfgang Korngold and John Williams for this week’s edition of Princeton U.S. 1.

    The Capital Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey will present an all-Williams concert at Trenton’s Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Saxophonist Jonathan Wintringham will be the soloist in “Escapades,” a concerto on themes from the Steven Spielberg film “Catch Me If You Can.” CPNJ music director Daniel Spalding will conduct.

    Then the Princeton Symphony Orchestra will present Korngold’s Violin Concerto on a program that will also include Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Elegía Andina” (“Andean Elegy”) and Felix Mendelssohn “Scottish Symphony,” at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on May 7 & 8. Stefan Jackiw will be the soloist in a work that lifts its thematic material from classic film scores of the 1930s and ‘40s. PSO music director Rossen Milanov will conduct.

    Catch me if you can, as I outline a film music continuum, and along the way reveal the source of my lifelong passions for swashbuckling swordfights and symphony orchestras, in this week’s U.S. 1 newspaper, out today.

    https://www.communitynews.org/princetoninfo/artsandentertainment/regional-orchestras-go-for-hollywood-sound/article_1058f9a6-c01b-11ec-9a2d-5f75837c82c9.html

    Princeton Symphony Orchestra
    New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Orchestra
    Patriots Theater at the War Memorial
    Stefan Jackiw
    Jonathan Wintringham
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    U.S. 1 Newspaper – PrincetonInfo

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