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  • Chamber Music Blooms in Princeton & Beyond

    Chamber Music Blooms in Princeton & Beyond

    Chamber music concerts are springing up like daffodils this weekend.

    Concordia Chamber Players will present its final subscription concert of the season – with music by Frank Bridge, Dmitri Shostakovich and Gabriel Fauré – Sunday at 3 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church in Solebury, Pa.

    Soprello – consisting of soprano Allison Pohl and Princeton Symphony Orchestra cellist Alistair MacRae – will perform music by Henry Purcell, Rick Sowash, Steven Gerber, David Dzubay, Gilbert & Sullivan, John Tavener and Robert Schumann, Sunday at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. (The program will be repeated at Monroe Township Public Library, Monday at 1 p.m.)

    The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – in its current incarnation of Daniel Hope, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; David Finckel, cello; and Wu Han piano – will appear Monday at 7:30 p.m. at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton. The concert will include piano quartets by Mahler, Schumann and Brahms.

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

    http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/04/classical_music_concordia_cham.html#incart_related_stories

    Also, don’t forget: Lenape Chamber Ensemble will perform music by Mozart, George Rochberg and Max Bruch, tonight at 8:15 p.m. at Upper Tinicum Lutheran Church in Upper Black Eddy, Pa., and Sunday at 3 p.m. at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown.

    This was covered in last week’s article:

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

    PHOTO: Pickles the Fox likes daffodils. More wildlife photos by Matt Binstead of the British Wildlife Centre here: http://mattbinstead.blogspot.com/.

  • Pi Day 2015 Einstein Spock Princeton Celebrates

    Pi Day 2015 Einstein Spock Princeton Celebrates

    Today is International Pi Day (3.14, get it?). In fact, it is the only Pi Day this century to be 3-14-15, the first five digits of Pi, often represented by the Greek letter “p” (“π”), the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, commonly approximated as 3.14159 – though you could take it a good deal further, since the number is wholly irrational and refuses to fall into a repeating pattern.

    Naturally, Princeton eats this stuff up. (It is Pi, afer all.) The borough is celebrating with a full day of events.

    http://www.pidayprinceton.com/

    Albert Einstein, longtime Princeton resident, was born on this date in 1879. “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits,” he said. Is he saying, then, that Pi is stupid?

    Not so Mr. Spock, who in this episode of “Star Trek,” defeats an evil computer by asking it to calculate to the end of Pi. That Spock is such a trickster. (R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy.)

    All together now, as we sing the Albert Einstein Pi Day song!

    The tyranny of Pi:

    Face it, YouTube is crazy for Pi:

    Scariest Pi song?

    What does Pi actually sound like?

    This way madness lies. Clearly, the possibilities are endless.

  • Trenton Princeton Classical Music Holiday Concerts

    Trenton Princeton Classical Music Holiday Concerts

    ADVENT CALENDAR – DAY 20

    The concert calendar is nearly as frenzied as the last-minute holiday shoppers.

    Here are but four programs of interest, scheduled to take place in the Trenton-Princeton area over the course of this last weekend before Christmas. Hopefully you can find a few hours to enjoy.

    My article in today’s Trenton Times:

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

    PHOTOS: Bach or Handel for the holidays? Decisions, decisions…

  • Youth Choirs Shine in Princeton This Weekend

    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

  • William Scheide Princeton Philanthropist Dies at 100

    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

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