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WQXR Broadcasts
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June 9, 2023
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WQXR Broadcast: June 9, 2023 at 8 pm
More information on the concert and program notes.
WWFM Broadcasts
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October 21, 2024
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WWFM Broadcast: October 21, 2024
Concert originally performed March 14, 2024.
Music Director Xian Zhang leads the New Jersey Symphony as she conducts Tchaikovsky’s most beloved symphony, his electrifying and hopeful Fifth Symphony. Also featured on the program is NightVision, a virtuosic composition that launched the career of composer and Dean of Juilliard David Ludwig, and Mozart’s stormy and dramatic Piano Concerto No. 24 featuring Tom Borrow, dubbed as “the very definition of ‘one to watch’” by International Piano.
David Ludwig NightVision
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
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May 6, 2024
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WWFM Broadcast: May 6, 2024
Concert originally performed April 27, 2023.
Two New Jersey Symphony favorites return for a program of love and dreams. Former Associate Conductor Gemma New takes the podium to conduct Sarah Gibson’s colorful warp & weft and Berlioz’s extraordinary Symphonie fantastique. In between these pieces, George Li dazzles the audience as he performs alongside New and the Symphony in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Sarah Gibson warp & weft
Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
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February 12, 2024
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WWFM Broadcast: February 12, 2024
Concert originally performed March 30 & 31, 2023.
Eric Jacobsen joins the New Jersey Symphony to conduct a program that centers on honoring the lives of those that were lost, beginning with Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin. Then, Tiffany Townsend takes the spotlight to perform Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lilacs before she and the Symphony are joined by Reginald Smith Jr. and the Montclair State University Chorale for Fauré’s divine choral-orchestral masterpiece, Requiem.
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Walker Lilacs
Fauré Requiem
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January 1, 2024
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WWFM Broadcast: January 1, 2024
Concert featuring Saint-Georges and Beethoven originally performed October 14 & 16, 2021. Concert featuring Still originally performed March 25 & 26, 2023.
Nicholas McGegan leads the New Jersey Symphony as he conducts Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ Overture to L’amante anonyme, with violinist Augustin Hadelich joining for Saint-Georges’ Violin Concerto, Op. 5, No. 2 and Beethoven’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2. In between these pieces, former Music Director Neeme Järvi returns to conduct William Grant Still’s most beloved work, his “Afro-American” Symphony.
Chevalier de Saint-Georges Overture to L’amante anonyme
Chevalier de Saint-Georges Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 5, No. 2
Still Symphony No. 1, “Afro-American”
Beethoven Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2
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April 14, 2023
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WWFM Broadcast: April 14, 2023
Concert originally performed March 10, 2022.
Xian Zhang and the New Jersey Symphony bring out the best of Tchaikovsky with three of his most famous works: Capriccio italien, the fantasy-overture of Romeo and Juliet and his Suite from Swan Lake. Plus, Daniil Trifonov makes his second appearance as the 2021–22 season’s Artist-in-Residence to perform a concerto that was written for him by DJ and composer Mason Bates.
Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien
Mason Bates Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture
Tchaikovsky Suite from Swan Lake
The Cone Institute Concert on WWFM and WQXR’s New Sounds
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2024 Cone Institute Concert
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WWFM Broadcast: September 9, 2024 at 8 pm
Concert originally performed July 20, 2024. Christopher Rountree conducts the New Jersey Symphony premieres of dynamic works by Leigha Amick, Jessie Leov, Paul Cosme and Santiago Beis, plus Institute Director Steven Mackey’s Urban Ocean, at the New Jersey Symphony Edward T. Cone Composition Institute at Richardson Auditorium in Princeton.
Leigha Amick Cascade
Jessie Leov Speculations on a Rainbow
Paul Cosme A Stranger in a Festival of Spirits
Santiago Beis Spletna
Steven Mackey Urban Ocean
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2023 Cone Institute Concert
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WWFM Broadcast: October 2, 2023 at 8 pm
Concert originally performed July 15, 2023. Case Scaglione conducts the New Jersey Symphony premieres of dynamic works by Tom Morrison, Kory Reeder, Sam Wu and Yangfan Xu, plus the “Sphere” movement from Institute Director Steven Mackey’s Concerto for Curved Space, at the New Jersey Symphony Edward T. Cone Composition Institute at NJPAC in Newark.
Tom Morrison Messages in the Ground
Kory Reeder Walls of Brocade Fields
Sam Wu Hydrosphere
Yangfan Xu Bya
Steven Mackey “Sphere” from Concerto for Curved Space
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2019 Cone Institute Concert
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WWFM Broadcast: November 29, 2019 at 8 pm
Concert originally performed July 20, 2019. Cristian Măcelaru conducts the New Jersey Symphony premieres of dynamic works by the composers of the New Jersey Symphony Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, a multi-faceted program that promotes new music and emerging composers. The Institute composers will briefly share the inspiration behind their pieces in an evening that will show the vibrant future of orchestral music. More info on the institute here.
See videos and read Q&A’s with the composers here.
DAN CAPUTO Liminal
PATRICK O’MALLEY Rest and Restless
IVÁN ENRIQUE RODRÍGUEZ A Metaphor for Power
BORA YOON The Wind of Two Koreas
STEVEN MACKEY Portals, Scenes and Celebrations (East Coast Premiere) -
2018 Cone Institute Concert
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WWFM Broadcast: October 19, 2018 at 8 pm
Concert originally performed July 14, 2018. David Robertson conducted. Recorded at Richardson Auditorium in Princeton.
More information on the concert and program notes.
JONATHAN CZINER Resonant Bells
NATALIE DIETTERICH Aeolian Dusts
AARON HENDRIX Night Train
BRIAN SHANK Into the Rose Garden
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2017 Cone Institute Concert
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WQXR's New Sounds
World Premieres from Four Emerging Composers with the New Jersey Symphony
JOANN FALLETTA conductor
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRASAAD HADDAD Takht
NOAH KAPLAN Forest Through Forest
SAM LIPMAN Song of the Bhagavan
ALYSSA WEINBERG Tereza Slumbers
This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.