NJSO announces new concert of Beethoven & Rachmaninoff

MARK LAYCOCK CONDUCTS; GLEB IVANOV PLAYS RACHMANINOFF

ALL TICKETS ARE $20

NEWARK, NJ (February 4, 2013)—The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra announces a new concert featuring Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 on Sunday, April 13, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark. Mark Laycock, former NJSO Associate Conductor and frequent collaborator, leads the Orchestra in this one-day-only program, which opens with Mozart’s The Magic Flute Overture. All tickets for this special concert are $20.

“The pairing of these two masterpieces by Rachmaninoff and Beethoven brings together two mature and beautiful works filled with melodies that speak directly to the soul,” Laycock says. “They complement each other not only in their different languages of expression but also in their tonal palettes and orchestration—the Rachmaninoff is dark and rich with heavier brush strokes, the Beethoven is refreshingly light, showing the profundity of simplicity in the best sense.”

Of piano soloist Gleb Ivanov, winner of the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the conductor says: “It’s very exciting on those rare events when a young pianist comes forth from the great Russian traditions with all of the technique, facility and musical depth to convey the works of the master composers with authority and sensitivity.”

TICKETS
All tickets are $20 and are available for purchase online here or by phone at 1.800.ALLEGRO (255.3476). Seats will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

Through a special offer, patrons can pay $50 for a package including tickets for an entire family. This package is available by phone only.

Full concert and ticket information is available at www.njsymphony.org/pastoral.