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  • So Percussion Summer Institute Princeton

    So Percussion Summer Institute Princeton

    It’s the “Just So Story” that Kipling never wrote.

    So Percussion will oversee its annual So Percussion Summer Institute (SoSI) in Princeton, July 10-24. The town’s streets, public spaces and concert venues will be alive with exciting rhythmic and timbral combinations, in performances at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Matthews Theater, Albert Hinds Plaza, Princeton Public Library, Princeton Record Exchange, and Small World Coffee. All events are free and open to the public.

    SoSI will celebrate 15 years of new works for percussion quartet, involving college-age composers and performers from all over the world in an intensive two-week chamber music seminar. Many of the pieces to be performed were developed with faculty from Princeton University Department of Music.

    For the third year, So Percussion will be closely assisted by Andrea Mazzariello in developing a curriculum of writing for percussion, readings of composer’s pieces and interactions with Princeton faculty, graduate students and special guests.

    Highlights will include performances of Terry Riley’s “In C” at Princeton Public Library (July 18, 7 p.m.) and a concert made up of So commissions, including works by Steve Reich, David Lang, and Princeton composers Steven Mackey, Paul Lansky and Dan Trueman, at the Lewis Center (July 23, 7 p.m.).

    I do my best to drum up some interest in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

    http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/07/classical_music_so_percussion_1.html

  • Tim Keyes’ New Oratorio The Well Premieres

    Tim Keyes’ New Oratorio The Well Premieres

    When composer Tim Keyes was in search of inspiration for his new oratorio, he knew all he had to do was return to “The Well.”

    “The Well,” based on an episode from the Gospel of John, tells of Jesus’ encounter with a Samaritan woman, in which He, a Jew, gently erodes the cultural divide between them and introduces her to the concept of “living water,” a metaphor for salvation and eternal life.

    Keyes first embarked on the project many years ago, in the early 1990s, while he served as music director for Marty Haugen, himself a prolific composer of liturgical music.

    “I abandoned it, because I just wasn’t happy with how it was coming out,” Keyes says. “Then the Pope this year declared a Holy Year of Mercy, and I thought this was a perfect time to revisit it. But I revisited in a different way. I created something that lives somewhere between opera and Broadway. It has the emotional content of a Broadway production, but it has the musical content of an opera. It’s kind of a departure for me, but I think it works in a very interesting way.”

    The oratorio, scored for eight soloists, choir and orchestra, will be given its premiere at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium tomorrow at 8 p.m., with the composer conducting the Tim Keyes Consort.

    The program will also include works on themes of mercy and forgiveness by English Renaissance composer Richard Farrant (“Lord Who Throughout Thy Tender Mercy”), the Belgian-born French Romantic César Franck (his symphonic poem “Redemption”), and contemporary Irish composer Michael McGlynn (“Pie Jesu”).

    You can find out more about it, Keyes the composer, and his consort, in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

    http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/06/classical_music_tim_keyes_cons.html

  • American Boychoir’s решающий концерт

    American Boychoir’s решающий концерт

    Is this the The American Boychoir’s most important concert? It might very well be.

    “… [W]e are approaching a very important date for us, and that is the date where we are going to be meeting with the bankruptcy judge that is going to look at our finances and our financial model and is going to in essence decide whether we can continue or not,” says the ensemble’s artistic director Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, who nevertheless manages to remain upbeat.

    “We are looking great for this,” he says. “For example, in terms of music bookings, we are well ahead of the curve. Next year is all booked, and we are starting to book the following one. In terms of tuition money, we are well ahead of predictions. The only thing where we are not quite there is in our annual fund. That is something that we would really like to get as high as possible so that everything is looking not only as we predicted, but beyond. This benefit concert, hopefully, will help us raise some of the money that we still need to get there. But we are almost there.”

    The concert will take place on Sunday at 4 p.m. at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. You can read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

    http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/06/classical_music_american_boych_1.html

  • Princeton Reunions Weekend Music on WPRB

    Princeton Reunions Weekend Music on WPRB

    The first post-Prince Princeton Reunions Weekend will take place, starting today, at Princeton University. Whether you’re looking ahead to the P-rade, the concerts, or the fireworks, or you’re simply circling for a parking space, consider tuning in to WPRB to enjoy a full morning of music composed or performed by Princeton faculty and alumni.

    Needless to say, Princeton University has had an exceptionally rich musical history, between the mid-century experimentalists, the visiting professors and talented students from around the world, and at least two Pulitzer Prize winners (three if you count Milton Babbitt’s lifetime achievement award). The scene remains vibrant, and we’ll hear works representative of Princeton’s current faculty composers and performers. Music by Milton Babbitt, Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, and Roger Sessions will be presented cheek-by-jowl with that of Johann Sebastian Bach, Camille Saint-Saëns, Isaac Albéniz and Benjamin Britten.

    Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Litton-Lodal Artistic Director of The American Boychoir, will stop by at around 7:45 to tell us about the organization’s upcoming benefit concert, which will be held at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on June 5 at 4 p.m.

    We’ll have the eye of The Tiger, or at least his or her ear, as we present music composed and performed by Princeton University faculty and alumni, from 6 to 11 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. Orange is the color of our true love’s hair, on Classic Ross Amico.

    #PrincetonReunions

  • Princeton Reunions Weekend Music

    Princeton Reunions Weekend Music

    We put a Tiger in your tank this morning, as we celebrate Reunions Weekend, now underway, with music composed or performed by Princeton University faculty and alumni. Yet to come this morning, works by Earl Kim, Bohuslav Martinu, Roger Sessions, Caroline Shaw, Steven Mackey and more, including a performance by Princeton University Chapel organist Eric Plutz.

    We’re burning bright for Princeton, for Reunions, until 11:00 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.

    PHOTO: The Princeton Tiger and Princeton University Band at Communiversity in April.

    #PrincetonReunions

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