New York Times previews NJSO’s 2013–14 season
Jan 31, 2013
The New York Times writes:
The New Jersey Symphony will pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in its opening concert, featuring Duke Ellington’s “Three Black Kings” and “New World A-Comin’.” It will give the first performance of a work commissioned from Geri Allen, and it will offer Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” with spirituals performed between movements.
It will also present a new clarinet concerto by Richard Danielpour; the first performance of a new work by Lowell Liebermann (a Weehawken, N.J., resident, the symphony pointed out); and a heavy dose of Richard Strauss, celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth.