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SUMMARY:Chinese New Year Celebration Concert
DESCRIPTION:Concert Information\n\n\nXIAN ZHANG conductor\nERIC WYRICK violin | JONATHAN SPITZ cello | MIN KWON piano\nPEKING UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CHORUS\nTHE NEW YORK FESTIVAL SINGERS\nSTARRY ARTS GROUP CHILDREN’S CHORUS Rebecca Shen\, director\nNAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY Nai-Ni Chen\, choreographer\nEDISON CHINESE SCHOOL LION DANCE TEAM\nELENA KAMPOURIS host\nNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA \nStart a new tradition at the NJSO’s first-ever Chinese New Year celebration\, conducted by Xian Zhang. Musical riches abound in this program that blends Eastern and Western musical traditions. Li Huanzhi’s Spring Festival Overture is beloved in China yet almost reminiscent of Copland’s America. Songs and arias from opera and traditional Chinese culture show that music bridges all cultures. Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with pianist Min Kwon brings all elements of this sumptuously crafted program together in a joyful performance. \nTRADITIONAL Dragon Dance\nLI HUANZHI Spring Festival Overture\nTAN DUN The Triple Resurrection\nVERDI “Anvil Chorus” from Il Trovatore\nBEETHOVEN Choral Fantasy\nPUCCINI “Humming Chorus” from Madama Butterfly\nPUCCINI “Jasmine Chorus” from Turandot\nTRADITIONAL CHINESE SONG/arr. Nicholas Hersh: 送别 “Farewell” \nPlease note: This performance is 80 minutes with no intermission. \nLobby Festival begins at 6 pm\nDelight in a happy celebration of the Year of the Pig with special pre-concert festivities for the whole family\, including traditional Chinese music performers\, calligraphy demonstrations\, crafts and more.
URL:https://joshlisner.com/event/chinese-new-year-celebration-concert/
LOCATION:New Jersey Performing Arts Center\, 1 Center St\, Newark\, NJ\, 07102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Westminster Kantorei: Lily Among Thorns
DESCRIPTION:Westminster Kantorei reprises works from its fall concert performing movements of Palestrina’s Missa Sicut Lilium Inter Spinas\, works by J. S. Bach and Allegri along with modern selections. Please join Josh in his first concert with this renowned ensemble. \nPresented as part of Interkultur’s “Sing ‘N’ Joy” Princeton International Choral Festival. \n  \n  \nFor ticket information click here. \n— \nWestminster Kantorei is an auditioned chamber choir specializing in early and contemporary music. Composed of graduate and undergraduate students\, the ensemble performs regularly with some of America’s leading specialists in early music\, including collaborations with the Dark Horse Consort\, Juilliard 415 and others. It was selected as a finalist for the 2014 American Prize\, whose judges stated that Kantorei is “truly outstanding\,” and described the choir as having a “finely-measured and delicate balance of voices\, and a mastery of stylistic performance practice.” \nLISTEN (link is external)to Amanda Quist discuss Lumina\, the ensemble’s new recording\, with WWFM The Classical Network’s David Osenberg. \nLISTEN(link is external) to Westminster Kantorei perform Heinrich Schütz’s Selig Sind die Toten\, which is included on the recording Lumina. \nLISTEN(link is external) to Westminster Kantorei perform Joseph Rheinberger’s Abendlied\, which is included on the recording Lumina. \nThe ensemble’s 2018-2019 season includes performances on the Westminster Choir College campus in Princeton and an appearance as a guest artist for Bach to the Future\, a Baroque festival hosted by the Choir School of Delaware. In February 2019\, Kantorei will perform for the Interkultur International Choral Festival. The choir’s 2017–2018 season included the release of its first solo recording\, Lumina\, hailed by infodad.com as a recording “sung with great beauty of sound and excellent articulation … a CD to cherish” and by National Medal of Arts recipient Morten Lauridsen as “superb\, a splendid recording\, highly recommended.” In addition to concerts in Princeton\, the ensemble performed at the American Choral Directors Association’s Eastern Division Conference in Pittsburgh\, where it was selected to premiere the Raymond Brock Memorial Commission by composer Tarik O’Regan. \nRecent seasons have included performances at the 2017 Boston Early Music Festival and the American Handel Festival\, as well as a series of performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Westminster Choir and the New York Philharmonic\, conducted by Kurt Masur. Additionally\, as part of a 2016 concert tour in France and England\, Westminster Kantorei performed at the Festival en L’Île in Paris\, and in Windsor Castle’s Saint George’s Chapel. The ensemble has also served as the demonstration choir for a master class with Eric Whitacre for at the Choir College\, and it has collaborated with Princeton University Libraries in bringing to life newly acquired editions of works by Lassus and Wert. \nWestminster Kantorei has premiered works by a number of contemporary composers\, including Christian Carey\, Daniel Elder\, Doug Helvering\, Blake Hensen\, and the internationally acclaimed Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström.
URL:https://joshlisner.com/event/lily-among-thorns/
LOCATION:Princeton University Chapel\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Williamson Concert
DESCRIPTION:The Grammy® nominated Westminster Williamson Voices\, named for the founder of Westminster Choir College\, John Finley Williamson\, is praised by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. Williamson Voices is the resident choir of the Choral Institute at Oxford (CIO)\, now in its sixth year. (www.rider.edu/oxford). The CIO has become of the leading institutes in the world for the training of conductors that emphasizes artistry in performance. \nSAMPLE and ORDER(link is external) Silence Into Light\, Westminster Williamson Voices’ newest recording. \nThe Williamson Voices\, founded by James Jordan\, has distinguished itself in the choral world for its distinctive artistry\, recordings\, educational outreach and its mission to perform new music. The choir is also recognized as a living choral laboratory.  It is one of the few ensembles in the world that use chant as the center of their musicianship study and performance. This emphasis has grown out of its performance and study at the Choral Institute at Oxford. The choir has completed a three-year project studying the performance practice and spirituality surround the works of Arvo Pärt\, which culminated in the performance of his monumental Kanon Pokajanen in the fall of 2017. Williamson Voices was the first college choir to be a part of The Metropolitan Museum’s LiveArts series\, and it performed in museum’s Temple of Dendur in partnership with the Arvo Pärt Project. \nReviewers on both sides of the Atlantic are of one voice in praising the ensemble for its world premiere recordings on the Naxos label. Gramophone magazine has described the Westminster Williamson Voices as an ensemble of “intimate and forceful choral artistry\,” with a tone that is “controlled and silken in sustained phrases as they are vibrantly sonorous in extroverted material.” American Record Guide praised the ensemble as “without peer.” Choral Journal has described the Westminster Williamson Voices an ensemble of “supreme artistry” and a choir that performs with “truth and precision.” The Arvo Pärt Project’s publication has written: “The Westminster Williamson Voices under his (Jordan’s) direction are coming into their own in the American choral scene both here and abroad.” \nIn July\, 2013\, The Williamson Voices performed as part of the world-wide Britten 100 celebration\, participating in the 50th anniversary re-enactment performance of the premiere of St. Nicolas in the Lancing College Chapel in Sussex where the work was premiered with the composer conducting.  In 2013\, the choir also gave its UK debut performance at Oxford as part of the Westminster Choral Institute at Oxford and the SJE Artist series. In 2015 the choir performed Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms under the baton of the newly appointed music director of New York’s St. Thomas Church\, Daniel Hyde\, on the day of the 50th Anniversary of the work’s premiere. This past summer\, Williamson Voices presented the finale concert at the Oxford International Choral Festival\, following Cinqucento\, The Magdalen College Choir of Oxford and Tenebrae. \nThe ensemble has established itself as a voice of composers of our time\, and it has been acclaimed for its creative programming and collaborations with other art forms. Most notable were the ensemble’s performance at The Philadelphia Cathedral of Eric Whitacre’s Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine with the renowned Spiral Q Puppet Theater and the premiere of James Whitbourn’s Luminosity with The ArcheDream Blacklight Dance Theater Company of Philadelphia. \nThe choir has premiered more than 40 choral works and presented several early performances and premieres by noted composers Jackson Hill\, William Duckworth\, Paul Mealor\, Tarik O’Regan\, Roger Ames\,\, Blake Henson\, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi\, Ugis Praulins\, Gerald Custer\, James Whitbourn\, Thomas LaVoy\, Cortlandt Matthews and Kile Smith\, Damijan Mocnik\, and Dan Forrest. The choir has premiered three major works by British composer James Whitbourn that have attracted international attention. In 2007\, it performed the world premiere of the chamber version of Annelies\, the first major choral setting of the diary of Anne Frank.  In 2008\, it shared in a commission of Luminosity\, a work for triple choir\, dancers\, viola solo\, organ and tanpura. In 2010\, the choir premiered Whitbourn’s Requiem Canticorum. Past seasons have also included performances of Debussy’s Nocturnes with The Princeton Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rossen Milanov. In 2013\, the choir performed the US premiere in New York of Paul Mealor’s Crucifixus for choir\, orchestra and baritone soloist.  In April 2014\, the choir made its Lincoln Center debut at Alice Tully Hall performing James Whitbourn’s Annelies. \nThe choir has assembled an impressive recorded discography. It has recorded more than 30 choral masterworks on the Teaching Music through Performance CD box sets that are used by conductors around the world. The ensemble can also be seen and heard in the DVD The Empowered Choral Rehearsal: Choral Masterclasses with Simon Carrington.  It has six world premiere recordings to its credit\, including its 2011 recording on the Naxos label\, Living Voices: The Music of James Whitbourn. James Whitbourn’s Annelies\, performed with The Lincoln Trio; Arianna Zukerman\, soprano\, and Bharat Chandra\, clarinet\, was released by Naxos in 2013.  London’s Guardian newspaper wrote about the recording “The performance as a whole…is well prepared and palpably committed as befits a premiere recording.”  Gramophone lauded Williamson Voices on the Anneliesrecording as “exhilarating” and described the ensemble as singing “with a precision and finesse normally found in the best of the UK’s large chamber choirs.” \nIn 2016\, the choir released its third recording on the Naxos label\, a recording of Christmas music featuring the Missa Carolae of James Whitbourn\, which is performed each year at the Westminster Choir College’s An Evening of Readings and Carols concert\, as well as the CD Hole in the Sky on the GIAChoralworks label distributed by Naxos. Both CDs were No. 1 on the Amazon Classical Charts\, and both appeared at the top of the BILLBOARD Classical Charts. In February 2018 Silence into Light was released on the GIAChoralworks label.  A disc featuring the music of Ola Gjeilo will be released in the fall.  Its 2017-2018 season also includes the world premiere of Peter Relph’s Requiem.
URL:https://joshlisner.com/event/williamson-concert/
LOCATION:Bristol Chapel – Westminster Choir College\, 101 Walnut Lane\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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