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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
Princeton’s Mega Music Events and Gemma New’s Triumph

Apologies if any of you were stuck sitting in a cubicle somewhere hoping for a few seconds of escapism courtesy of Classic Ross Amico. Unfortunately, I was up to my eyeballs trying to figure out how to synthesize all the abundant material for a newspaper article about two mega-events coming up in Princeton, beginning this weekend: the Golandsky Institute International Piano Festival, and the Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, a workshop for young composers, with JoAnn Falletta and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.

The reminders from my editors that they were expecting an article from me began to arrive around 4:00, four hours past deadline. I uploaded the last of the photos around 6. All in a day’s work.

Speaking of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, belated congratulations to Gemma New, associate conductor of the NJSO, who has been named music director of Ontario’s Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. New, 28, is also founder/director of the Baltimore-based new music collective, the LUNAR ensemble.

Apparently, the announcement was made back in May, but you know how it is when you’re working. You’ll find the press release here:

http://hpo.org/gemma-new-music-director/

At least this article was published by the CBC only three days ago:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/gemma-new-of-hamilton-philharmonic-is-1-of-continent-s-few-female-conductors-1.3137925

July 6, 2015

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