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Westminster Arts Week: Princeton & Lawrenceville

The influence of Rider University’s Westminster College of the Arts will be felt here, there, and everywhere over the course of the coming week.

Westminster Choir College will present its annual art song festival tonight and tomorrow. This year’s overarching theme will be “Songs of Fin-de-Siècle Paris and Vienna.” Lecture recitals will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Bristol Chapel on the college’s Princeton campus.

Repertoire will include works composed between 1885 and 1915 by Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Ernest Chausson, Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Alexander Zemlinsky.

A free symposium will be held there tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Westminster Choir College students will perform early songs of Webern.

Also on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and also free, Westminster Conservatory of Music faculty members will present a concert of French woodwind repertoire as part of the institution’s “Kaleidoscope Chamber Series.” The program, titled “Le Conservatoire: The Paris Conservatory and Its Impact on Wind Performance,” will take place at Gill Memorial Chapel on the Rider University campus in Lawrenceville.

On Sunday at 3 p.m., Westminster Conservatory will provide a showcase of its community ensembles and students at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. Participants will include the Westminster Community Orchestra and the Princeton Charter School/Westminster Conservatory Youth Orchestra, both conducted by Ruth Ochs; the Westminster Conservatory Children’s Chorus, conducted by Patricia Thel and Yvonne Macdonald; and winners of the Westminster Conservatory Concerto Competition: Marie Louise James, oboe; Alexis Peart, soprano; and Matthew Yuan, clarinet.

Finally, Westminster Choir will join the Westminster Festival Orchestra for a concert of Beethoven choral masterworks on March 4 at 8p.m. Joe Miller, Westminster Choir College’s director of choral activities, will conduct the Mass in C Major, and Drew Petersen will be the soloist in the popular “Choral Fantasy” for piano, chorus and orchestra. The program, titled “Romantic Genius,” will be performed at Princeton Meadow Church and Event Center.

Find out details in my article in today’s Trenton Times. Go, Westminster!

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/02/classical_music_westminster_ch_1.html

PHOTOS: Westminster Conservatory competition winners (clockwise from left) Marie Louise James, Alexis Peart, and Matthew Yuan

February 26, 2016
WPRB’s All-Vinyl Week: Rare Grooves & Local Music

Vinyl, vinyl everywhere!

Music by contemporary composers released on the CRI label. Lesser known works, recorded by major artists on major labels, which have never been reissued. A long out-of-print DG recording of music by a Canadian master. The late Louis Lane conducting American music. Works by Philadelphia composers Paul Nordoff and Richard Yardumian. A cult classic featuring the songs of humpback whales.

These are some of the curiosities that I’ll be sharing with you this morning, as I comb the WPRB record library (leavened with a few choice albums from my own collection). It’s part of WPRB’s All-Vinyl Week. That’s right, WPRB is playing nothing but good old-fashioned vinyl through Sunday.

Ruth Ochs, music director of the Westminster Community Orchestra, will drop by around 9:00 to talk a little bit about the upcoming Westminster Conservatory of Music showcase concert, which will take place on Sunday at 3 p.m. at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. The program will include performances by community ensembles, students and conservatory competition winners. Ochs is also conductor of the Princeton University Sinfonia.

Other than that, it all comes off the turntables this morning, from 6 to 11 ET on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We put the style in “stylus,” on Classic Ross Amico.

February 25, 2016
Vinyl Week on WPRB Rare Classical LPs

Right now we’re listening to Philadelphia composer Paul Nordoff’s “Winter Symphony,” a prized recording on the Louisville Orchestra’s First Edition Records label. Join me later on in the hour as Lee Holdridge does his best Erich Wolfgang Korngold impression, with his Violin Concerto No. 2.

Ruth Ochs, music director of the Westminster Community Orchestra, will drop by around 9:00 to talk a little bit about the upcoming Westminster Conservatory of Music showcase concert, which will take place on Sunday at 3 p.m. at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. The program will include performances by community ensembles, students and conservatory competition winners. Ochs is also conductor of the Princeton University Sinfonia.

Yet to come this morning: works by Wallingford Riegger, Carl Ruggles, Earl Kim, Richard Yardumian and Alan Hovhaness – all heard on LP, all otherwise unavailable. Out-of-print recordings for your delectation, as part of WPRB’s Vinyl Week. It’s all vinyl through Sunday, and all Classic Ross Amico through 11 a.m., on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com.

February 25, 2016

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