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Scheide’s “Midsummer Celebration” Showcases New Jersey’s Operatic Singers and Musicians
William and Judith Scheide could spend their summers in the cool environs of New England, as many Princetonians do, escaping the New Jersey heat. Instead the Scheides have not only…
Vienna Piano Trio Presents Trio of Works; From Two Viennese and A French Master
Throughout music history, the city of Vienna has been a hot spot for musical performance, with Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert among its masters. Two centuries later, Vienna is still exporting…
Princeton University Summer Concerts Presents The Chiara String Quartet
The Princeton University Summer Concerts series continued its popular season last week with a performance by the Chiara String Quartet, which presented a concise and well-balanced program to a very…
Is This Madness? Or Just Emotional and Psychological Abuse? Princeton Summer Theater Stages Classic Thriller “Gaslight”
A creative work whose title becomes a part of the common cultural vocabulary must strike a resonant chord in our social and psychological worlds, and the indomitable Princeton Summer Theater’s (PST)…
Opera New Jersey’s Tenth Anniversary Is Celebrated With Verdi’s “Il Trovatore”
In the ten years since Opera New Jersey’s founding, the company has grown from a vehicle for student performance to a mentoring program incorporated into high quality operatic production. In…
Princeton Festival Opera “Double Bill” Brings Humor, Drama to McCarter Stage
There are a number of ways an opera company can tie works together for a multi-opera production: by composer, plot theme, or perhaps as a vehicle for a particular singer.…
Princeton University Summer Concerts Opens Season With Daedalus String Quartet
Princeton University Summer Concerts kicked off its season in high gear last Tuesday night with a full house performance of the Daedalus String Quartet, a young and fresh chamber ensemble.…
Summer Theater Presents “A Little Night Music,” Farce with Depth; Sondheim Musical Masterpiece Opens Promising, Diverse Season
Stephen Sondheim acknowledged some conflict in his collaboration with the director Harold Prince on the original 1973 production of A Little Night Music: “Hal had described the show as being…
The Princeton Festival Continues With Concordia Chamber Players Performance
Since the inauguration of The Princeton Festival five years ago, the Concordia Chamber Players has been an integral part of the musical activities. Currently based locally across the river at…
Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra Opens Princeton Festival With Orchestral Majesty
Some artistic changes in performing ensembles take place with a great deal of fanfare, and others slip under the radar. The Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra has undergone a tremendous artistic…
