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Youth Choirs Shine in Princeton This Weekend

ADVENT CALENDAR – DAY 13

If Christmas acts as a beacon against the shortest day, then it shines most brightly for the young.

Three local youth choirs feature prominently on this weekend’s concerts, as the Princeton High School Choir joins the Princeton Symphony Orchestra at Richardson Auditorium, tomorrow at 4 p.m.; the Princeton Girlchoir joins the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Orchestra at the Trenton War Memorial, Sunday at 3 p.m.; and the The American Boychoir holds its own, again at Richardson, Sunday at 4 p.m.

Read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/classical_music_youth_choirs_t.html

Here’s the American Boychoir from 1988, performing with Jessye Norman, in Donald Fraser’s “This Christmastide”:

The choir led by its current music director, Fernando Malvar-Ruiz:

And in “Silent Night”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeArqQw-aVA

December 12, 2014
William Scheide Princeton Philanthropist Dies at 100

I learned last night of the death of William Scheide, who passed yesterday morning at the age of 100. Scheide was as generous as he was long-lived. He shared his abiding love for music, of course, especially that of Johann Sebastian Bach, of whom he was a respected interpreter and scholar; but he was also active in social causes, fighting against poverty, disease, hunger, ignorance and discrimination. He touched many, many lives in the Princeton area and beyond.

This article, which was posted on Planet Princeton yesterday, merely scratches the surface:

Princeton Philanthropist William H. Scheide Dies at 100

My sympathy to his family and friends.

PHOTO: William Scheide (center) with the Bach Aria Group he founded. Clockwise, from left, Eileen Farrell, Julius Baker, Robert Bloom, Paul Ulanowsky, Jan Peerce, Norman Farrow, Bernard Greenhouse, Maurice Wilk and Carol Smith

November 15, 2014
NJ Choirs Sing in Princeton & Jersey Shore

Cicada song is not the only music to be heard in New Jersey over the next week or so, as VOICES Chorale and the New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus – NJGMC invite amateur singers to join them for concerts in Princeton and at the Jersey shore.

The NJGMC will hold its annual “summer sing” at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, Monday at 7:30 p.m. The Hopewell-based VOICES will perform at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies, August 24 at 7 p.m.

You can read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/08/new_jersey_gay_mens_chorus_to_1.html

August 15, 2014

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