“The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will focus on the classics in its 2014-15 season,” writes Ronni Reich in Monday’s (1/27) Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey). “The season opens Oct. 10 with Orff’s raucous oratorio ‘Carmina Burana.’ … The local Westminster Choir College will join the ensemble. … The next two Winter Festivals will have a Shakespeare theme. In January 2015, Violinist Sarah Chang will perform music from Bernstein’s ‘West Side Story.’ Programs will also feature ‘Romeo and Juliet’ selections by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Gounod—performed with members of the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey—as well as Elgar’s ‘Falstaff’ and Barber’s Selections from ‘Antony and Cleopatra.’ … The New Jersey Roots Project, now in its fifth and final season, features works by 20th century composer George Antheil, orchestra violinist Darryl Kubian and the late Edward T. Cone. The initiative will culminate in the world premiere of Cone’s Symphony and the establishment of a composition institute in collaboration with the Edward T. Cone Foundation and Princeton University, where Cone was a professor…. the orchestra will perform 14 weeks of subscription concerts and will travel to venues in Newark, Princeton, Red Bank, Englewood, Morristown and New Brunswick.”
Posted January 28, 2014
Photo of New Jersey Symphony Orchestra by Fred Stucker
