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Trenton NYE: Classical Music Celebrations

End of the year celebrations make up the meat of my article in today’s Trenton Times.

The New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Orchestra will present a New Year’s Eve concert at the Trenton War Memorial, beginning at 8 p.m. on 12/31 (obviously). The program will be simulcast over WWFM The Classical Network, which can be heard locally at 89.1 FM, or at http://www.wwfm.org.

In other radio news,Marvin Rosen of “Classical Discoveries” will host a 24-hour “plus” marathon of contemporary music, “Viva 21st Century,” over WPRB Princeton, beginning at 2 p.m. tomorrow and concluding at 3 p.m. Sunday. WPRB may be heard at 103.3 FM, with streaming at http://www.wprb.com.

The reality of New Year’s Eve is generally pretty terrible, but good music makes the bitter pill go down easier.

Read more about it here:

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

PHOTO: Composer Robert Moran (right) will be one of several drop-by guests during the course of Marvin Rosen’s “Viva 21st Century” marathon on WPRB

December 26, 2014
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…

December 19, 2014
Trenton Princeton Orchestral Weekend Brahms Abounds

No less than three orchestras descend on the Trenton-Princeton area this weekend. The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra will perform at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium (tonight at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m., respectively), and the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic will perform at the Trenton War Memorial’s Patriots Theater (tomorrow at 8 p.m.).

In this three-ring orchestral circus, the clown car is seemingly chock full of Brahms, as he and Beethoven appear on two of the three programs (NJSO & PSO). The NJCP will do their best to keep all the plates spinning with Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade.”

Anthony McGill will unveil Richard Danielpour’s Clarinet Concerto, “From the Mountaintop” (NJSO); Aisha Dossumova will tread the highwire with two violin showpieces, Franz Waxman’s “Carmen Fantasy” and Saint-Saëns’ “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso” (NJCP); and Joseph Kalichstein, of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, will lend a touch of gravitas with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 (PSO).

Two of Brahms’ four symphonies, fully half of his symphonic output, will be performed on the Richardson concerts. You can read more about it in my articles in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/05/scheherazade_at_heart_of_new_j.html

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/05/2_orchestral_concerts_to_featu.html

May 2, 2014

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