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Veterans Vigil Trenton War Memorial Saturday

With Veterans Day coming up, this looks like another worthwhile, and certainly praiseworthy, undertaking by @[100069502834123:2048:The LOTUS Project of Trenton, Inc.] “Stay Together (A Vigil for Veterans)” will be presented at the Trenton War Memorial this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The program will include music from “Band of Brothers,” Howard Goodall’s “Eternal Light,” and images and stories of veterans submitted by community members. I haven’t been able to write about it, but my editor, Dan Aubrey, has, in this week’s @[100063792690234:2048:U.S. 1 Newspaper – PrincetonInfo], at the link:

https://www.communitynews.org/princetoninfo/eeditions/page-page-13/page_0fc9ade2-ff7e-52b2-aa2d-3afae3f36846.html

Also, check out his cover story on area book shops!

November 9, 2023
Pioneer Songs Trenton Performance Saturday

My article previewing Saturday’s performance of Eric Houghton’s “Pioneer Songs” runs for a second time, in a somewhat expanded form, in this week’s U.S. 1 Newspaper – PrincetonInfo, out today.

Among other things, you’ll find some interesting info (if I do say so myself) on the history and architecture of the Trenton War Memorial that had to be cut in order for the piece to be able to fit into the Trenton Downtowner last week.

Houghton’s historical oratorio is an epic meditation on the courage and resilience of those Americans who blazed the western frontier. The work will be presented in its entirety at Patriots Theater at the War Memorial in Trenton this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The cycle of fifteen symphonic songs, for vocal soloists, choir, and narrator, celebrates the first successful passage of wagon trains to California in the 1840s.

Ruth Ochs will conduct the Westminster Community Orchestra and a hundred voice choir, including the Westminster Community Chorus, prepared by Sinhaeng Lee, and the Ewing-based Glassbrook Vocal Ensemble, directed by Chaequan Anderson.

Houghton, a resident of Ewing, has been on the faculty of Westminster Conservatory of Music for 34 years. Ochs is in her fourteenth year as conductor of the Westminster Community Orchestra.

Here’s the article as it now appears online:

https://princetoninfo.com/pioneer-songs-arrive-in-the-capital-city/

You’ll find more information on the music and Saturday’s performance at pioneersongs.com.

PHOTO: Ochs and Houghton flank yours truly, during an on-air conversation that took place yesterday afternoon at WWFM – The Classical Network.

November 7, 2018
Big Band Meets Classical This Weekend

I hope you’re “in the mood” for big band.

This afternoon on The Classical Network, I’ll be joined by two special guests: Daniel Spalding, music director of the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey, and Bud Forrest, music director of the String of Pearls Big Band Orchestra. String of Pearls will appear with singers and dancers of the big band revue, “In The Mood,” as they combine with the Capital Philharmonic for a unique concert experience at the Trenton War Memorial, this Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. We’ll talk about it this afternoon around 4:00. Then be sure to stick around for a clarinet concerto by big band legend Artie Shaw.

We’ll also celebrate the birthdays today of Germaine Tailleferre, the only female member of that Parisian collective known as Les Six, and Murray Perahia, one of the outstanding classical pianists of our time.

We’re full of big ideas today, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, so swing on by to WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

April 19, 2017
Leon Bates Inspires New Year’s Resolutions

If you’re looking for the inspiration to stick to your New Year’s resolution, you need look no further than pianist Leon Bates. Bates, whose life has been enriched by both music and sports, is as disciplined as they come. The results are evident in a career that has been marked by unflagging energy and an unusual focus on physical fitness.

Bates will join the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey for its annual New Year’s Eve concert this Saturday night at the Trenton War Memorial. The orchestra’s music director, Daniel Spalding will conduct a program of buoyant classics, including works by Franz von Suppé, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Leonard Bernstein, and Johann Strauss II. Bates will be the soloist in George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”

Read more about this engaging pianist, too large a personality to be captured adequately in a newspaper article, in today’s Trenton Times.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/12/classical_music_new_addition_t.html

Please note: I do not write my own headlines.

December 30, 2016
Dream of America Concert in Trenton

Sometimes when reality gets ugly it’s good to be reminded of the dream. With political tensions running high in advance of the election, the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey will present “The Dream of America.” The concert will take place at Patriots Theater at the Trenton War Memorial this Saturday.

“This seemed like the best time to do it,” says music director Daniel Spalding, with a laugh. “We really need a little lift during this election season.”

Spalding has elected to celebrate the American dream with Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” Antonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World,” and Peter Boyer’s inspiring ode to the immigrant experience, “Ellis Island: The Dream of America.”

From 1892 to 1954, more than 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island in search of a better life. More than 40 percent of the U.S. population – over 100 million Americans – can trace its roots to someone who came to this country along that route. Boyer assembled his texts from testimonials archived as part of the Ellis Island Oral History Project. They are real words of real people telling their own stories. The work is performed by actors, rather than speakers or narrators, who deliver their monologues in the first person.

Actors from Passage Theatre at the Mill Hill Playhouse will assume the roles and deliver the narratives of émigrés from Poland, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Ireland and Russia. A powerful epilogue will include the recitation of Emma Lazarus’ poem, “The New Colossus.”

I get a little choked up just thinking about it. You can find out more in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/10/classical_music_njcp_performin_2.html

October 21, 2016

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