NJSO presents Opening Night Celebration Sep 27 at NJPAC

CONCERT FEATURES INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCE OF DVOŘÁK’S ‘NEW WORLD’ SYMPHONY, GERI ALLEN WORLD PREMIERE

Fri, Sept 27, at NJPAC in Newark

NEWARK, NJ (August 30, 2013)—Music Director Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra open the NJSO’s 2013–14 concert season on Friday, September 27, with an Opening Night Celebration at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark.

Special event packages include receptions before and after the concert. Opening Night festivities begin at 5 pm with a cocktail party. The 7 pm concert program—“Promise of the New World”—features renowned jazz pianist and composer Geri Allen in a program that pays tribute to the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. A dinner follows the NJSO performance.

The concert’s centerpiece is Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” which the NJSO will perform with spirituals sung in between movements. The Orchestra gives the world premiere of Allen’s Stone & Streams—an NJSO commission presented as part of the Orchestra’s New Jersey Roots Project—featuring the composer as soloist and Rev. Dr. M. William Howard Jr. as narrator. The program also showcases vocal ensemble Afro Blue, famed for reaching the final four on NBC’s reality-show competition “The Sing-Off.”

EVENT TICKETS

Celebration Cocktail Party Ticket

• $275 per person — Cocktail party, premier-section concert seat and complimentary parking.
• $200 per person — For NJSO patrons who already have or will exchange for a September 28 concert ticket, this add-on event ticket includes the cocktail party and complimentary parking (no concert ticket).

Both prices include a $125 donation.

Celebration Dinner Ticket

• $775 per person — Cocktail party, premier-section concert seat, dinner and complimentary parking.
• $700 per person — For NJSO patrons who already have or will exchange for a September 28 concert ticket, this add-on event ticket includes the cocktail party, dinner and complimentary parking (no concert ticket).

Both prices include a $500 donation.

Multi-ticket packages and dinner tables are also available for purchase.

For event information and reservations, contact Alice Golembo, Senior Manager of Special Events, at 973.735.1729 or agolembo@njsymphony.org. For more information, visit www.njsymphony.org/openingnight.