Updated 11-15-19 Westminster Choir College November 2019 Events

*****Westminster Kantorei: An Evening of Choral Evensong
Concertized choral evensong for the Feast of All Saints
Performing the works of Bryd, Tallis, Farmer, Batten, and more

Friday, November 1, 2019 at 7:30PM

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

Tickets: $20 Adults, $15 Students/Seniors
Box Office: 5609-921-2663
Online: https://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/TicketRequest?eventId=1286589&presenter=WCCRU&venue=&event=&tck=true
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*****Westminster Chapel Choir
Angels and Demons
Westminster Chapel Choir welcomes families and friends to Westminster for Family Weekend with a performance of music by Aguiar, Arnesesn, Durufle, Handel, Mozart, Orban, and Whitacre.

Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 7:30PM

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

Free Admission, VERY LIMITED PUBLIC SEATING

5-ticket limit for family members.

1 ticket for individual faculty, staff or students with valid Rider ID. Very limited quantities available once family members have been accommodated.

Pick up tickets at Will Call before the concert.
No online orders.
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*****Westminster Williamson Voices: The Stars Rearrange Themselves Premiering new works by Thomas LaVoy, Sarah Rimkus, Anthony Maglione

Premieres of works by Thomas LaVoy and Sarah Rimkus with poetry by Dana Gioia, commissioned by the Scattered Light Consortium (Glasgow School of Art Choir, USC Thornton Chamber Singers, Westminster Williamson).  Also premieres of two Gregorian chant-based works by Anthony Maglione, new works by James Whitbourn, and works for choral improvisation and new carols for the Christmas season by Pilkington, Rimkus, Custer, Scheibe and Hudson.

Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 3:00PM

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

Tickets:

Admission: $20 adults, $15 students/seniors
Box office: 609-921-2663
Online: https://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/TicketRequest?eventId=1286592&presenter=WCCRU&venue=&event=
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*****Rider Dances - The Dance and Sustainability Project
Learn about the links between Rider University's shared read The Poisoned City and a dance created for the Global Water Project, an organization that advocates for clean water in underrepresented communities. 

Friday, November 8, 2019 at 4:00PM-5:00PM

Theater in the Bart Luedeke Center
Rider University
Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Admission is Free, No ticket required
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*****Kaleidoscope Chamber Series
Bucket List

Members of the Westminster Conservatory faculty present the first of two recitals dedicated to masterworks from solo and chamber repertoire that they never quite got around to working up!

Georges Enescu:  Sept chansons de Clément Marot, op. 15 for voice and piano

Charles-Marie Widor:  Suite, op. 34 for flute and piano

Robert Schumann:  Three Romances for oboe and piano 

Pierre Sancan:  Lamento and Rondo for alto saxophone and piano

Moritz Moszkowski:  "Polonaise" and "Krakowiak" from Four Polish Dances, op. 55 Nouvelles Danses Espagnoles, op 65, no. 1 for piano four hands

Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 7:30PM

Gill Memorial Chapel
Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, New Jersey  08648

Admission is Free
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*****Westminster Choir: Appear and Inspire
100 Years of Singing

100th Anniversary of the founding of Westminster Choir College in 1920

Benjamin Britten's Hymn to Saint Cecelia
Daniel Elder's O Magnum Mysterium
Arnold Schonberg's Friede auf Erden
Works by Runestad, O'Regan and more 

Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 7:00PM

St. Rose of Lima R.C. Church
2 Bayview Avenue
Massapequa, New York 11758

Admission is Free-will donation

Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 3:00PM

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

Tickets: $20 Adults, $15 Students/Seniors

Box Office: 609-921-2663

Online: https://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/TicketRequest?eventId=1286593&presenter=WCCRU&venue=&event=
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*****Westminster Conservatory Faculty Recital

Flûtes à Deux

Performing French flute duets from four centuries by Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet/Francois Borne and more. 

 
Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.

Bristol Chapel

Westminster Choir College

101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, NJ 08540

 
Free Admission

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*****Westminster Williamson Voices 
at Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul
in celebration of Bational Bible Week

Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 3:00PM

Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul
18th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA   19103

Admission is Free
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*****Rinaldi Steinway Westminster Piano Alimni Series
AnnaLotte Smith '17
Performs works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Faure, Rachmaninoff

Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 3:00PM

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

Admission is Free
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*****Rider Musical Theatre: HAIR
50 years ago, Hair was the first rock musical to hit Broadway, the product of the hippie counter-culture and the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

A "tribe" of hippie youngsters living in the East Village of New York during the Vietnam War. They long to change the world as they rebel against their parents and society. 

Score includes:
Let the Sunshine
Aquarius
Good Morning Starshine

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


Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 7:30 Preview Performance
Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 7:30PM
Friday, November 22, 2019 at 7:30PM
Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 2:00PM and 7:30PM
Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 2:00PM

Yvonne Theater

2083 Lawrenceville Road

Lawrenceville, NJ, 08648

Tickets:


Admission: $25 adults; seniors/non-Rider students $20, $5 Rider students
Faculty and Staff: Please contact the box office to reserve your ticket.


Preview Performance sold at door: $9 adults/non-Rider students, $5 seniors
Box Office: 609-896-7775


Online: https://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/TicketRequest?eventId=1289228&presenter=RIDER&venue=&event=&tck=true
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*****Westminster Conservatory at Nassau
Music for Two Flutes and Piano

Ellen Fisher Deerberg, Kevin Willois, flute
Christopher McWilliams, piano

Performing arrangements of works by Delibes, Rameau, and Damase.

Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 12:15PM

Niles Chapel
Nassau Presbyterian Church
61 Nassau Street
Princeton, NJ   08540

Admission is Free 
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*****Westminster Community Chorus
Vespers by the Sea

Westminster's community-based choral ensemble celebrates the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission with a program featuring NASA media and Ola Gjeilo's Sunrise Mass.

Join us by the Sea of Tranquility as we explore the universe within the human spirit. Find inspiration and reach new heights with a chamber orchestra, ethereal choral soundscape and transmissions from the Apollo 11 mission.

Friday, November 22, 2019 at 7:30PM

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

Admission: $15 adults, $10 students/seniors

Box Office: 609-921-2663
Online: https://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/TicketRequest?eventId=1287945&presenter=WCCRU&venue=&event=&tck=true
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*****Westminster Opera Theatre
Cendrillon

Jules Massenet's operatic retelling of the classic Cinderella tale by Charles Perrault. Performed with chamber orchestra and sung in French with English supertitles.

Performances:

Friday, November 22, 2019 at 7:30PM
Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 7:30PM

Robert L. Annis Playhouse
Westminster Choir College
101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, NJ  08540

Admission: $25 adults, $20 students/seniors

Box Office: 609-921-2663
Online: https://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/TicketRequest?eventId=1287025&presenter=WCCRU&venue=&event=
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*****Westminster Jubilee Singers: My Faith Looks Up to Thee
An evening of songs of comfort and strength

An evening of songs of comfort and strength.  The program includes Adolphus Hailstork's I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes, William Dawson's Ezekiel Saw de Wheel, music by Undine Smith Moore, M. Roger Holland and the premiere of My Faith Looks Up to Thee by Marques L. A. Garrett, composed in honor of the Westminster Jubilee Singers’ 25th anniversary. The ensemble will be joined by George Johnson III, tenor, and Zackary D. Ross, organ. 

Performers

Westminster Jubilee Singers
George Johnson III, tenor
Zackary D. Ross, organ
Vinroy D. Brown, Jr., conductor

Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 7:30PM 

Bristol Chapel, Westminster Choir College

101 Walnut Lane

Princeton, NJ, 08540

Tickets:

$20 adults and $15 students/seniors

Box Office: 609-921-2663

Online: https://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/TicketRequest?eventId=1286594&presenter=WCCRU&venue=&event=&tck=true