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Carmen Opera NJ This Weekend

This weekend, Boheme Opera NJ will present THE opera for people who think they don’t like opera, Georges Bizet’s “Carmen.” Even if someone thinks singing isn’t their thing, they can while away the time counting the staggering number of hit tunes, surely recognizable from their incessant use in cartoons, movies and television commercials.

The fully staged production will be sung in French with English supertitles, with dialogue spoken (as Bizet intended) in English translation.

Performances will take place tonight at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Kendall Main Stage Theater at The College of New Jersey Center for the Arts in Ewing.

No bulls were harmed in the making of this opera. Read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/04/classical_music_boheme_opera_p_1.html

“Carmen” figure skating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEOrLz6fl_Q&nohtml5=False

Tom and Jerry “Carmen Get It!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A98i15hguPY

“Bad News Bears” Carmen

Comcast “Carmen”

Marx Brothers “Carmen”

April 8, 2016
Princeton Recorder Society Gathers January 12

The concert season has yet to reset after the holidays, but if you have a hankering for music and fellowship, and you think you can figure out the fingerings, the Princeton Recorder Society meets at Kingston Presbyterian Church on the second Tuesday of every month. The next playing session takes place on January 12 at 7:30 p.m. There’s a meet-and-greet beforehand, at 7. Scores are provided and light refreshments will be served.

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

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/01/classical_music_princeton_reco_1.html

January 8, 2016
American Boychoir Spreads Holiday Cheer

At the end of what has been a turbulent year, The American Boychoir is back, doing what it does best – spreading hope and good cheer through the purity of its sound.

Princeton’s boychoir is America’s boychoir. I hope you’ll step up and support them this holiday season. The choir will present its “most important concert of the year” at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium, this 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/2015/12/classical_music_american_boych.html

December 18, 2015
Handel’s Triumph Staged as Opera in NJ

Hallelujah! Something different for a change.

Graduate students of Westminster Opera Theatre will be presenting Handel’s first oratorio, “Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno” (“The Triumph of Time and Disillusionment”), in Italian with English supertitles, in two performances with orchestra, at Yvonne Theater, Rider University, in Lawrenceville, today and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. A third, free performance will take place, with piano, Sunday at 4 p.m.

The oratorio will be staged as an opera, with the allegorical figures of Pleasure, Time and Truth in pursuit of Beauty.

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

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/12/classical_music_westminster_op.html

PHOTOS: The young Handel with contemporaneous timepiece

December 4, 2015
Early Music Fest at Grounds For Sculpture

It looks like the Guild for Early Music has taken care to make the appropriate sacrifices to Apollo, since the Sun God will again be smiling on the annual Early Music Festival at Grounds For Sculpture on Sunday (with mostly sunny skies in the forecast and highs in the lower 50s).

The concerts will be held indoors in two galleries at the Seward Johnson Center for the Arts, but the nice weather ensures that recorder players will stroll the grounds and that visitors will be able to take in the sculpture tours, luxuriate in a glorious autumn day, and receive inquiring looks from the peacocks, always on the alert for a potential handout.

14 Early Music groups will present music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque and Colonial Eras. The event will take place from 12:30 to 5 p.m. Grounds For Sculpture is located in Hamilton, on the site of the former New Jersey State Fairgounds. You’ll know you’re close when you start to encounter surreal roadside attractions like the 15-foot tooth and the sidewalk bicyclist.

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

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/10/11th_annual_early_music_festiv.html

October 16, 2015

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