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Philadelphia Orchestra on WRTI Today

Tune in this afternoon to WRTI for the first of my Philadelphia Orchestra interviews. As part of the intermission features on this week’s concert broadcast, conductor-in-residence Cristian Măcelaru, born in Romania, will talk about his great composer-compatriots George Ensecu and György Ligeti.

Ligeti, born in Transylvania, will be represented by his rarely-heard “Concert românesc” (hear Măcelaru talk about the interesting use of the horns in the piece). Măcelaru concludes the concert with a roof-raising performance of Enescu’s “Romanian Rhapsody No. 1.” He comments that it has always been his dream to perform the work with The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Sarah Chang will be the soloist in Dvořák’s Violin Concerto. The program will also include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1.

The broadcast begins at 1 ET. Listen in the Philadelphia area at 90.1 FM, search for additional frequencies at wrti.org, or avail yourself of the station’s internet streaming.

Other commitments this afternoon? Listen to the interview (already posted) here:

http://wrti.org/post/philadelphia-orchestra-concert-wrti-sarah-chang-soloist-sunday-july-5-1-pm

Also on the website: Susan Lewis’ interview with Sarah Chang. Gregg Whiteside is the producer and host of the Philadelphia Orchestra broadcasts.

July 5, 2015
NJ Symphony Plays Shakespeare

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra music director Jacques Lacombe promises to transform the winter of our discontent to glorious summer, with a great deal more than the lascivious pleasing of a lute. The orchestra will embark on a three-week musical exploration of Shakespeare-inspired works, January 9-25, including an appearance at Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium, on January 16, and two performances at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, on January 10 & 25.

Violinist Sarah Chang will appear in all six venues that will be hosting the series (including NJPAC in Newark, bergenPAC in Englewood, the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, and the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown), playing a suite by David Newman from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.” “West Side Story,” obviously, is a musical update of “Romeo and Juliet.”

Also on the series will be such favorites as Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture” and selections from Prokofiev’s ballet on the same subject, but also concert rarities such as Elgar’s “Falstaff,” Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s suite from “Much Ado About Nothing,” Sergei Taneyev’s completion of Tchaikovsky’s love duet from a projected opera on “Romeo and Juliet,” and selections from Samuel Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra.”

For more information, check out my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/classical_music_nj_symphony_or_1.html

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.

– “The Tempest,” Act III, Scene 2

January 2, 2015

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