“After the success of its inaugural New Year’s Eve concert at which more than 900 people heard classical and contemporary tunes performed inside the War Memorial Concert Hall in Trenton, the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic hopes to continue the momentum with a series of productions this year and next,” writes Nicole Mulvaney in Monday’s (3/10) Times of Trenton (New Jersey). “Musicians from the defunct Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra formed the 60-member NJCP last year with a new conductor, new management and revised marketing strategy after a small group of GTSO musicians began meeting to see what they could do to revitalize the orchestra, [music director Daniel] Spalding said.… NJCP is hoping to ‘get the word out’ that it’s here to stay in the capital city despite its rocky past, Spalding said…. The cost of putting on the New Year’s Eve production alone was $35,000, and … ‘We’re looking to raise $400,000. We just started and we hardly have anything,’ [Spalding] said…. NJCP is also partnering with officials at the Trenton Community Music School on West State Street, Trenton Public Schools, area churches and a number of youth orchestras throughout the region to produce events, Spalding said.”
Posted March 11, 2014
