KEEPING THE MUSIC GOING: Princeton Symphony Orchestra has introduced At Home with the PSO, designed to keep audiences engaged online during the COVID-19 shutdown. It can be found at princetonsymphony.org/media/home-pso.

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra has announced the launch of At Home with the PSO (princetonsymphony.org/media/home-pso), a new gateway to original online content including performance webcasts, musicians’ recipes, photo albums, and more, with fresh content being added weekly.

Features include Play it Forward, online weekly webcasts of PSO performances; Cooking with the PSO; a virtual gallery of student artwork and writings, and PSO photo albums.

The first webcast was a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, complete with video introduction and an accompanying pre-concert talk and program note. It was performed by the PSO, under Rossen Milanov’s direction, in February 2019, in Richardson Auditorium.

Musicians are contributing their favorite recipes weekly to the Cooking with the PSO series. A new recipe will be posted every Wednesday.

The PSO is creating a fully interactive, virtual gallery experience to showcase creative works by area middle school students who participated in this season’s PSO BRAVO! Listen Up! Response Program. The students’ visual art and writings were conceived in response to a performance of Saad Haddad’s Concerto for Clarinet, a PSO co-commission, performed by guest soloist Kinan Azmeh and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in January 2020. While the virtual gallery is under construction, visitors to the website can view the exhibit catalog online.
Those seeking an escape from the four walls of their home can look through the orchestra’s online collection of photo albums, which take one into the concert hall at Richardson Auditorium, up-close with guest artists, and out in the community.

The orchestra plans to keep adding fresh content, giving patrons and the community reason to return again and again.

For more information, visit princetonsymphony.org.