NJSO presents ‘Exuberant Tchaikovsky’

NJSO PRINCIPAL CELLO JONATHAN SPITZ PERFORMS VARIATIONS ON A ROCOCO THEME

JACQUES LACOMBE CONDUCTS PROGRAM THAT INCLUDES SYMPHONY NO. 5, POLONAISE FROM EUGENE ONEGIN

NEWARK, NJ (March 7, 2013)—Music Director Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra present an all-Tchaikovsky program featuring Variations on a Rococo Theme, performed by NJSO Principal Cello Jonathan Spitz, April 12–14 in Trenton, Red Bank and Englewood. The Polonaise from Eugene Onegin opens the program, which culminates in Tchaikovsky’s mighty Fifth Symphony.

Performances take place on Friday, April 12, (7:30 pm) at the War Memorial in Trenton, Saturday, April 13, (8 pm) at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank and Sunday, April 14, (3 pm) at bergenPAC in Englewood.

“For this Tchaikovsky program, we wanted to show several aspects of his work,” Lacombe says. “Eugene Onegin has a special place in my heart, and we perform the Polonaise to present Tchaikovsky the opera composer. The Rococo Variations show Tchaikovsky’s more classical period. You find ballet music in almost every page Tchaikovsky writes, so when you hear the Fifth Symphony, you can almost hear Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.

“To perform the Rococo Variations with Jonathan Spitz as the soloist will be very special—for the audience, for the Orchestra and for me.”

TICKETS
Tickets start at $20 and are available for purchase online at www.njsymphony.org or by phone at 1.800.ALLEGRO (255.3476).

FOOD DRIVE
The NJSO is partnering with The Community FoodBank of New Jersey to fight hunger. At NJSO subscription concerts in April, the Orchestra and volunteers will collect non-perishable food items to donate to The Community FoodBank, which assists more than 900,000 people in 18 counties across New Jersey. Patrons can bring food donations to the concert hall and drop off items at a collection table in the lobby. More details, a full list of concerts at which the Orchestra will collect food donations and a list of acceptable food items are available at www.njsymphony.org/fooddrive.