Xian Zhang conductor American music swings into summer with hits from Gershwin’s pathbreaking opera, Porgy and Bess. Letting their instruments do the singing, the New Jersey Symphony soars through “Summertime,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So” and other glories of Gershwin’s masterpiece. Only one way to top that: superstar pianist Daniil Trifonov playing Brahms with the New Jersey Symphony last season was a revelation, so we are thrilled at his return to wrap our season with a bang in Gershwin’s dance-filled Concerto in F. The New Jersey Symphony premieres an all-new commission from Resident Artistic Catalyst Daniel Bernard Roumain. A master storyteller, DBR will continue to wow New Jersey audiences with his genre-bending music. Gershwin/arr. Bennett Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture Daniel Bernard Roumain’s commission is generously sponsored in part by Judith Musser.
Daniil Trifonov piano
New Jersey Symphony
Daniel Bernard Roumain Autumn Days and Nights (World Premiere, New Jersey Symphony Commission)
Gershwin Concerto in F
Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University is at 61 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ.
Season Finale: Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich (6/6/25-6/6/25)
Xian Conducts Mozart (5/16/25-5/16/25)
Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 (3/14/25-3/14/25)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet Plays Ravel (1/10/25-1/10/25)
Handel's Messiah (12/21/24-12/21/24)
Opening Weekend: Xian Conducts Scheherazade (11/1/24-11/1/24)
New Scores: The Cone Composition Institue Concert (7/20/24-7/20/24)
Beethoven’s “Eroica” (5/17/24-5/17/24)
Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony (3/15/24-3/15/24)
Videos
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The Wolves
Old Library Theatre (12/12 - 12/14) | |
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Comedy Night
Surflight Theatre (4/11 - 4/11) | |
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Randall Goosby Returns
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (1/10 - 1/10) | |
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Who's Bad
State Theatre New Jersey (2/7 - 2/7) | |
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HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis – Live Comedy Experience in Newark, NJ
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (12/20 - 12/20) | |
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It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
The F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre (12/3 - 12/28) | |
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Mozart's Requiem
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (4/16 - 4/16) | |
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Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
Mayo Performing Arts Center (3/29 - 3/29) | |
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