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  • Summer Music on WPRB with So Percussion

    Summer Music on WPRB with So Percussion

    I suppose there’s no point in denying it after this week, so I’m going to jump right in. This Thursday morning on WPRB, it’s all music related in some way to summer and summery diversions. There will be music inspired by this, my most-hated season, as well as works about water, gardens and getaways.

    Members of So Percussion will drop by in the 8:00 hour to knock some sense into me and to talk a bit about the So Percussion Summer Institute (SoSI), now in progress at locations in and around Princeton University. The two week program for college-age percussionists and composers is chock-full of free concerts, some of them in very public places, such as Princeton Record Exchange, Small World Coffee, and Albert Hinds Plaza. If you haven’t looked into it, you can find more information and a complete schedule here:

    http://sopercussion.com/sosiconcerts

    SoSI runs through August 1.

    I hope you’ll slather yourself with lotion, put on some shades, and join me in my air conditioned, subterranean bunker this week, as we celebrate summer, tomorrow morning from 6 to 11 ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM or at wprb.com.

    Keep it cool with Classic Ross Amico.

  • Gardiner’s Monteverdi Returns to Princeton

    Gardiner’s Monteverdi Returns to Princeton

    I’ve spent the bulk of the day writing about Sir John Eliot Gardiner for the Trenton Times. Gardiner will return to Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium, with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, for a performance of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo,” on April 29 at 7:30 p.m. The same forces will present Monteverdi’s “Vespers for the Blessed Virgin” at Carnegie Hall the following evening. The Princeton appearance will honor the late William H. Scheide.

    I probably wouldn’t have bothered to say anything until the article hits print on Friday (as always, I’ll provide a link to it here), except for the fact that I just noticed that today is Sir John Eliot’s birthday. Happy birthday, Maestro!

    Here, the musicians perform Handel’s “Dixit dominus,” a work they brought to Richardson last June:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH2-4D32azo

  • Princeton Sound Kitchen & PLOrk Concerts

    Princeton Sound Kitchen & PLOrk Concerts

    What’s new? Why, music from Princeton Sound Kitchen (PSK) and the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), of course!

    PSK will host This is How we Fly on Tuesday. The ensemble – made up of Irish fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Dublin jazzman Seán Mac Erlaine, Appalachian hard shoe dancer Nic Gareiss, and Swedish percussionist Petter Berdalen – will perform music by six Princeton composers, alongside some of its own material.

    On Wednesday, PLOrk will present “Medi3val Dr3@ms,” revisiting music of composers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and lending it a distinctly 21st century spin. The orchestra will employ custom-designed electronic musical instruments, live performer brain-waves, and even audience participation, as attendees compose a percussion piece using their cell phones.

    The concerts will take place at Princeton University’s Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall. Both events have an 8 p.m. start time. Read all about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

    http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/04/classical_music_pu-affiliated.html

    PHOTO: Flying their freak flag high: (left to right) Seán Mac Erlaine, Petter Berdalen, Nic Gareiss, and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh

  • Shakespeare Inspires Princeton’s Music Scene

    Shakespeare Inspires Princeton’s Music Scene

    After 400 years, the Bard continues to provide some great shakes. Two Shakespeare-related works will be served up in the Princeton area over the course of the next week.

    Tonight at 8 p.m., the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will unveil Darryl Kubian’s “O for a Muse of Fire” (which takes its title from the Prologue to “Henry V”), as part of a concert to be held at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. Also on the program will be Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” with pianist Serhiy Savlov, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 “Pathètique.”

    Though written two hundred years after Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” Bellini’s opera, “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” (“The Capulets and the Monatgues”), had a kind of parallel genesis, bypassing the Bard to draw from the same Italian Renaissance sources. Westminster Opera Theatre will perform the work next Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., at the Bart Luedeke Center, Rider University, in Lawrenceville.

    Find out more in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

    http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/03/classical_music_shakespeare_in.html

    “Orpheus with his lute made trees,
    And the mountain tops that freeze,
    Bow themselves, when he did sing:
    To his music plants and flowers
    Ever sprung; as sun and showers
    There had made a lasting spring.”

    Henry VIII, Act III, Scene 1

  • Opera’s Dark Elf and Bird Droppings at Princeton

    Opera’s Dark Elf and Bird Droppings at Princeton

    Only opera can promise a malevolent elf and an old man blinded by bird droppings.

    Gabriel Crouch will conduct Princeton University Opera Theater, along with members of the Princeton Girlchoir and The American Boychoir, in a double-bill of Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” and Jonathan Dove’s “Tobias and the Angel,” tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m., at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium.

    To learn more, check out my article in today’s Trenton Times.

    http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/01/classical_music_princeton_doub.html

    You might not want to sit too close to the stage when the sparrows arrive.

    (To see the boys in their bird costumes, click on “The American Boychoir,” above.)

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