Thursday, February 21, 2019

Updated 3/25/19 Westminster College of the Arts March Events

*****Assassins - Rider Musical Theatre
Explores the lives of nine individuals who have tried to assassinate or succeeded in assassinating a president of the United States. 

Warning: Some material may not be suitable for young audiences.

Preview Performance Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 7:30PM
Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 7:30PM
Friday, March 1, 2019 at 7:30PM
Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 2:00PM
Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 7:30PM
Sunday, March 3, 2019 at 2:00PM

Yvonne Theater
Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ    08648

Admission: $25 adults and $20 seniors and non-Rider students

Preview performance sold at door: $9 adults/Non-Rider students, $5 seniors

Box Office: 609-896-7775

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***** Westminster Conservatory Faculty Recital
Music from the British Isles
Music of Stanford, Vaughan-Williams, Holst, Coleridge-Taylor, Jacob, and more

Barbara Williams - flute
Kaarin Record-Leach - piano
Urska Haule-Fegus - violin
Emily Muller - viola
Chase Morrison - cello

Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 7:30PM

Bristol Chapel
Westminster Choir College
101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, NJ.  08540

Admission is Free 

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*****Westminster Faculty Recital
Real and Mystical is Life

Soprano Victoria Browers
JJ Penna, pianist
Evan Fein, composer and pianist
Khari Joyner, cellist

American art song, texts by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Jane Kenyon

Sunday, March 3, 2019 at 3:00PM

Bristol Chapel
Westminster Choir College
101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, NJ.   08540

Admission is Free
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*****2019 Lindsey Christiansen Art Song Festival 
Speak Louder

Westminster Choir College students and Professor JJ Penna perform works by women composers
Works by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Edie Hill, Lili Boulanger, Margaret Bonds, Libby Larsen, Amy Beach, and more

Student research projects will be presented one hour before Friday's concert

Friday, March 8, 2019 at 7:30PM
Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 7:30PM

Bristol Chapel
Westminster Choir College
101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, NJ  08540

Admission: $15 Adults and $10 Sudents and Seniors
Box Office: 609-921-2663
Online - https://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/TicketRequest?eventId=1256836&presenter=WCCRU&venue=&event=&tck=true
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*****Rider Dances 
The Dance and Sustainable Project
Rider Dances will inform and move the public about issues affecting out planet
Students will work with Artichoke Dance from New York City, whose work has focused on the environment for the past 20 years

Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 7:30PM
Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:00PM

The Theater in the Bart Luedeke Center
Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ  08648

Admission: $20 Adults, $15 Students and Seniors
Box Office: 609-896-7775
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*****Westminster Symphonic Choir
Mozart Requiem
Westminster Symphonic Choir joins the New York Philharmonic for an all-Mozart evening featuring his Requim, a work of transcendent beauty with darkly rich orchestration and otherwordly radiance.

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 7:30PM
Friday, March 15, 2019 at 8:00PM
Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 8:00PM
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 7:30PM

David Geffen Hall
Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center
New York, New York 10023-6970

Box Office: 212-875-5656
Online: http://www.nyphil.org/
Tickets from $49- $150 depending on the day and location of seats
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*****Westminster Schola Cantorum 2019 Tour
Westminster Schola Canotrum performs works by Tavener, Victoria, Faure, Brahms, and others.

*Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 7:30PM

The First Baptist Church of Washington, D.C .
1328 16th Street NW
Washington, D.C.  20036

Free will offering

*Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 6:00PM

Christ Church Easton
111 S. Harrison Street
Easton, Md.  21601

Free will offering
Box Office: 410-822-2677

*Monday, March 18, 2019 at 7:30PM

Trinity Lutheran Church
15 Randolph Avenue
Hagerstown, Md.  21740

Free will offering 
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*****Westminster Conservatory Faculty Recital
Steps Through Time

Members of the Westminster Conservatory perform musical styles inspired by dance throughout the centuries. Featuring the music of Bach, Gluck, Debussy, Bruch, Lavignac, Sousa, and others.

Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 7:30PM

Bristol Chapel
Westminster Choir College
101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, New Jersey  08540

Admission is Free
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*****Westminster Conservatory at Nassau
Loeffler Trio

Melissa Bohl, oboe, Christopher McWilliams, piano, and Marjorie Selden, viola, perform works by Robert Kahn (Serenade for oboe, viola, and piano), Christopher McWilliams (Suite for English horn, viola, and piano), Frank Bridge (Four Pieces for ciola and Piano), and Paul Hindemith (Sonata for oboe and piano)

Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 12:15PM 

Niles Chapel
Nassau Presbyterian Church
61 Nassau Street
Princeton, New Jersey   08540

Admission is Free 
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*****Westminster Conservatory Faculty Recital
An die Musik

Performing the music of Dvorak, Beethoven, Poulenc, Doppler, Saint-Saens, Mozart, and Schubert

Katherine McClure, flute
Sandra Olson, flute
Elem Eley, baritone
Larissa Korkina, piano
Esma Pasic-Filipovic, piano
Vladimir Valjarevic, piano

Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 3:00PM

Bristol Chapel
Westminster Choir College
101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, New Jersey   08540

Admission is Free
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*****Westminster Jubilee Singers
God be Merciful

Westminster Jubilee Singers perform works by Steve Pilkington, William Dawson, Byron J. Smith and other gems of the African American repertoire

Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 5:00PM

Union Baptist Church
805 Newfield Avenue
Stamford, Connecticut

Admission: $25 or $30 at the door
Box Office: 203-322-0881
Online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/westminster-jubilee-singers-present-god-be-merciful-tickets-31454975679

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*****Westminster Faculty Recital
The Hobart Trio

Iris Perry, piano
Kathy Butler-Hopkins, violin
Joseph Kimura, cello

Performing premieres of works by Westminster faculty member Thomas Parente, as well as Beethoven's Piano Trio in D Major Op.70 No.1, "Ghost," and an arrangement of Ator Piazolla's. The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 8:00PM

Bristol Chapel
Westminster Choir College
101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, New Jersey  08540

Admission is Free
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*****Westminster Community Orchestra
Solos to Symphony

Led by conductor Ruth Ochs, the Westminster Community Orchestra is joined by students from the Conservatory's Suzuki violin program and pianists Jian Kai Ang and Yi Zhang.

Performing Mendelssohn's Symphony No.3, Scottish and works by Beethoven, Bach, and Vilvaldi

Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 3:00PM

Hillman Performance Hall
Westminster Choir College
101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, New Jersey  08540

Admission is $15 adults and $10 seniors/non-Rider students
Box Office: 609-921-2663
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*****Ken Cowan in Recital

International concert organist Ken Cowan performs at Westminster Choir College


Cowan is regarded as one of North America's finest concert organists and has been praised for his dazzling artistry, impeccable technique, and imaginative programming by audiences and critics alike.

Performing his own transcription of Saint-Saemns' Dance Macabre and works by Durufle, Dupre, and Bach

Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 7:30PM

Bristol Chapel
Westminster Choir College
101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Admission is Free
Learn more by clicking the link:

https://www.rider.edu/events/organist-ken-cowan-recital

Mr. Cowan will also be conducting a master class Monday, April 1, 2019 at 3:00PM

and a Sacred Music Lab on Monday, April 1, 2019 at 6:30PM

Admission is Free




 

Monday, February 11, 2019

An Evening in Vienna at Cairn University February 15, 2019

An Evening in Vienna at Cairn University



Friday, February 15, 2019 at 7:00PM

Performances by the faculty and students of the School of Music at Cairn University

Sponsored by Cairn University, Bosendorfer, Yamaha, and Cunningham Pian

Performed on the Bosendorfer 280 VC 9' Grand Piano and the Bosendorfer 214 VC 7' Grand Piano

Program:

Dr. Benjamin Harding:
Mendelssohn Fantasia in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 28 (1833)
I. Con moto agitato (1809-1847)
II. Allegro con moto
III. Presto

Mr. Kenneth Bormann:
Liszt Annees de Pelerinage "Suisse"
II. Au lac de Wallenstadt
V. Orage

Dr. David Shockey (tenor):
Schubert Die snhone Mullerin
18 Trockne Blumen
19 Der Muller und der Bach
20 Des Baches Wiegenlied

Micah Leary:
Rachmaninoff Etude Tableau in A Minor, Op. 39, No.6

Rebekah Stiles:
Listz Etudes d'execution transcendante
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Event is Free. RSVP

For more info :

https://www.cunninghampiano.com/an-evening-in-vienna-at-cairn-university/

Friday, February 8, 2019

Newtown Chamber Orchestra Concert Sunday, February 10, 2019




Newtown Chamber Orchestra
Music Director: Russel Hoffmann

Philadephia Saxophone Quartet - TBA filling in for Trenton Brass Quintet +1

Quartet in F Major, KV 370 for Oboe, Violin & Cello - W.A. Mozart
Nancy Gaspari, oboe
Madeline Cabano, ciolin
Russell Hoffmann, viola
David Inloes, cello

Sonata for Tuba - P. Hindemith
Scott Force, tuba and David Beck, piano

Presenting the Nyckelharpa - TBA
Bronwyn Bird and Sylvia Barrentes, nyckelharpa and Justin Nawn, guitar

Rhapsody in Blue - G. Gershwin
Clipper Erickson, piano

Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 7:00PM
Lutheran Church of God's Love
791 Newtown/Yardley Road
Newtown, PA

Tickets:
$25 Adults
$20 Seniors
$10 Students
https://www.newtownchamberorchestra.org/concerts/