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Sinfonietta Nova Latin Concert Princeton NJ

As the orchestra tunes for its final concert of the season, Sinfonietta Nova’s dance card is nearly full.

The West Windsor-based community ensemble is about to conclude its 2018-19 series, devoted to the dance, with a concert on Latin American themes. The program will be presented on May 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the orchestra’s home, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church – NJ in Princeton Junction.

Musical selections will include Arturo Márquez’s “Danzón No. 2,” Ernesto Lecuona’s “Malagueña,” Astor Piazzolla’s “Tangazo,” and Morton Gould’s rousing “Latin American Symphonette.”

Violinist Denise Dillenbeck will join the orchestra for the “Havanaise” by Camille Saint-Saëns and a special encore.

You can find out more in my interview with – and profile of – Sinfonietta Nova’s music director, Gail Hsui-Wen Lee, in this week’s U.S. 1 Newspaper – PrincetonInfo, out today.

https://princetoninfo.com/sinfonietta-nova-brings-latin-flair-to-season-finale/

May 1, 2019
Dvořák with Sinfonietta Nova

There are seven weeks until the next Sinfonietta Nova concert, an all-Dvořák program, which will feature the Cello Concerto in B Minor and the Symphony No. 7. The season’s theme is “The Magnificent Seventh.” Each Sinfonietta Nova concert has included at least one seventh symphony, so far by Haydn, Beethoven, Prokofiev, William Boyce and Niels Wilhelm Gade.

Since I’ve been providing the program notes for some of the concerts, I was asked by the group’s music director, Gail Lee, if I would come up with seven fun facts about Dvořák that might be featured on the orchestra’s Facebook page in the weeks leading up to the concert. The first was posted today. You’ll find it by following the link, Sinfonietta Nova.

Sinfonietta Nova performs at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Princeton Junction. The Dvořák concert, the orchestra’s season finale, will take place on May 9 at 7:30 p.m. This year’s Sinfonietta Nova Youth Concerto Competition winner, Chase Park, will be the soloist in the Cello Concerto.

More information at http://www.sinfoniettanova.org.

March 23, 2015
Princeton Symphony & Sinfonietta Nova Celebrate Nordic Music

Now that moderate temperatures and Daylight Saving Time have lulled us into a sense of security, it’s okay for local symphony orchestras to trot out the Nordic composers.

On Saturday, Sinfonietta Nova will present music by the great Danes, Carl Nielsen and Niels Wilhelm Gade (on a concert which will also include works by Pablo de Sarasate and William Boyce), and on Sunday, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra will perform music by Jean Sibelius (on a concert which will also include works by Robert Schumann, Jules Massenet and Sebastian Currier).

Sinfonietta Nova will appear at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Princeton Junction (Saturday at 7:30 p.m.); the Princeton Symphony will perform at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium (Sunday at 4 p.m.).

Put on your Bermuda shorts and read all about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

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

PHOTOS: They scoff at your snow: Jean Sibelius (left) and Carl Nielsen

March 13, 2015
Scheherazade Sinfonietta Nova Closes Season

Tell me more!

The story framing “One Thousand and One Nights” presents a sultan scarred by the unfaithfulness of his sultana. To guarantee their fidelity, he has had each of his subsequent wives executed on the day following their nuptials. The most recent in the line, Scheherazade, must use her wits to prolong her life and win the sultan’s love.

If I were the sultan, she would have nothing to fear. I never get tired of listening to “Scheherazade.” Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s oft-performed symphonic poem will bring Sinfonietta Nova’s 2013-2014 season to a colorful close. The program will open with another “Arabian Nights” inspiration, Carl Maria von Weber’s overture to the one-act farce, “Abu Hassan.”

In between, soprano Lauren Athey-Janka will sing the “Song to the Moon,” from Antonín Dvořák’s “Rusalka.” Rusalka is a water spirit from Slavic mythology, whose tale bears more than a passing resemblance to Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid.”

The program will also include a concerto for that unlikeliest of lyric instruments, the tuba, by an 82 year-old Ralph Vaughan Williams. Scott Mendoker will be the soloist.

Scheherazade’s fascination is a tribute to the power of creative storytelling. Tonight’s performance will feature spoken narration, adapted from “One Thousand and One Nights” by Alton Thompson. The storyteller will be musician and former WWFM radio personality Bliss Michelson.

The program will conclude Sinfonietta Nova’s “fairy tale” season. Music director Gail Lee will conduct.

The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m., at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 177 Princeton-Hightstown Rd., West Windsor, NJ (some sources indicate Princeton Junction).

Tickets and information are available at sinfoniettanova.org, or at 609-785-1812.

May 10, 2014

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