Xian Zhang conductor Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony, filled with dark-chocolate harmonies, has been seducing newcomers to classical music for a century. No wonder its melodies have also cropped up in movies and pop songs. In Nico Muhly’s new piano concerto, Sounding, melodies inspired by hymn tunes are also abundant. Here is edge-of-your-seat beauty, topped off by the timelessness of Debussy’s musical portrait of moonlight. Claude Debussy Clair de Lune Program update: Double bassist Xavier Foley is unable to appear on the program. Pianist Adam Tendler will replace him for this concert.
Gregory D. McDaniel conductor
Adam Tendler piano
New Jersey Symphony
Nico Muhly Sounding for Piano and Orchestra (New Jersey Symphony Co-Commission)
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2
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)
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)
Daniil Trifonov Plays Gershwin (6/7/24-6/7/24)
Beethoven’s “Eroica” (5/17/24-5/17/24)
Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony (3/15/24-3/15/24)
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PEAK Performances (2/19 - 2/19) CONCERT
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Joshua Bell Leads Mendelssohn's
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (5/14 - 5/14) | |
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An Evening with Joshua Henry
Enlow Recital Hall (2/22 - 2/22) | |
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Young Frankenstein
Surflight Theatre (7/7 - 7/26) | |
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EarthVibes Music and Wellness Festival
127 Yellowbrook Rd (6/12 - 6/14) | |
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My Fair Lady
Sieminski Theater (2/26 - 3/1) | |
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Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra
State Theatre New Jersey (3/15 - 3/15) | |
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Xian Conducts Prokofiev & Strauss
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (4/12 - 4/12) | |
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