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Westminster Arts Week: Princeton & Lawrenceville

The influence of Rider University’s Westminster College of the Arts will be felt here, there, and everywhere over the course of the coming week.

Westminster Choir College will present its annual art song festival tonight and tomorrow. This year’s overarching theme will be “Songs of Fin-de-Siècle Paris and Vienna.” Lecture recitals will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Bristol Chapel on the college’s Princeton campus.

Repertoire will include works composed between 1885 and 1915 by Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Ernest Chausson, Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Alexander Zemlinsky.

A free symposium will be held there tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Westminster Choir College students will perform early songs of Webern.

Also on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and also free, Westminster Conservatory of Music faculty members will present a concert of French woodwind repertoire as part of the institution’s “Kaleidoscope Chamber Series.” The program, titled “Le Conservatoire: The Paris Conservatory and Its Impact on Wind Performance,” will take place at Gill Memorial Chapel on the Rider University campus in Lawrenceville.

On Sunday at 3 p.m., Westminster Conservatory will provide a showcase of its community ensembles and students at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. Participants will include the Westminster Community Orchestra and the Princeton Charter School/Westminster Conservatory Youth Orchestra, both conducted by Ruth Ochs; the Westminster Conservatory Children’s Chorus, conducted by Patricia Thel and Yvonne Macdonald; and winners of the Westminster Conservatory Concerto Competition: Marie Louise James, oboe; Alexis Peart, soprano; and Matthew Yuan, clarinet.

Finally, Westminster Choir will join the Westminster Festival Orchestra for a concert of Beethoven choral masterworks on March 4 at 8p.m. Joe Miller, Westminster Choir College’s director of choral activities, will conduct the Mass in C Major, and Drew Petersen will be the soloist in the popular “Choral Fantasy” for piano, chorus and orchestra. The program, titled “Romantic Genius,” will be performed at Princeton Meadow Church and Event Center.

Find out details in my article in today’s Trenton Times. Go, Westminster!

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/02/classical_music_westminster_ch_1.html

PHOTOS: Westminster Conservatory competition winners (clockwise from left) Marie Louise James, Alexis Peart, and Matthew Yuan

February 26, 2016
Moshe Budmor Haifa Symphony Director Dies at 92

I am sorry to learn of the death of local composer Moshe Budmor. Over a long life filled with notable accomplishments, Budmor was music director of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, choral director of the 92nd St. Y, professor of music at The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College), and music director of LaShir, the Jewish community choir of Princeton. Budmor died at home on December 4 at the age of 92. As far as I know, he composed prolifically to the very end.

I had the opportunity to interview him on the eve of his 90th birthday. His was a remarkable spirit.

Budmor’s obituary on nj.com:
http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/trenton/obituary.aspx?n=moshe-budmor&pid=176792832&fhid=17127

Our interview in the Trenton Times:
http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2013/06/moshe_budmor_celebrates_90th_b.html

December 7, 2015
Princeton Vocal Arts Abound This Week

If you are an admirer of the vocal arts, there is much to enjoy over the next nine days, with concerts being given by the Capital Singers of Trenton (tonight at 7:30, at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church in Princeton), Princeton Girlchoir (a benefit concert at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, tomorrow at 5), Westminster Williamson Voices (at Westminster Choir College’s Bristol Chapel, tomorrow at 8 p.m.), Westminster Choir (also at Bristol Chapel, Sunday at 3), Westminster Kantorei (at Bristol on 11/20 at 8), The Dryden Ensemble (an all-Purcell program at Princeton Theological Seminary’s Miller Chapel, on 11/21 at 7:30, and Trinity Episcopal Church in Solebury, Pa., on 11/22 at 3), and Westminster Jubilee Singers (at Bristol, on 11/22 at 7).

The Princeton Girlchoir will join The Princeton Singers for the New Jersey premiere of Steven Sametz’s “A Child’s Requiem,” written in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. On the same program will be Vaughan Williams’ poignant “Serenade to Music” (at Princeton Meadow Church and Event Center, on 11/21 at 8 p.m.).

It’s a lot to take in. Find out more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/11/classical_music_bevy_of_concer.html

November 13, 2015
September Song Heatwave When Does Fall Start

Another day in the Philadelphia-Princeton area projected to be in the mid-90s. So when does September start?

Walter Huston introduced “September Song,” in the Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson musical “Knickerbocker Holiday,” in 1938.

September 8, 2015
Philly to Princeton Radio Adventures

It’s a Tale of Two Cities, as I continue to ping-pong back and forth between Philadelphia and the Princeton area. I just learned that I will be filling in at WRTI again tomorrow, from 10 am to 2 pm ET. Listen in, if you’d like, at 90.1 FM or online at wrti.org.

Now, back to recording my weekend shows!

PHOTO: The mob clamors for more Classic Ross Amico

July 9, 2015

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