Press feature NJSO’s opening concerts as weekend highlight
The NJSO’s Opening Weekend with Sarah Chang concerts kick off the 2016–17 season with performances tonight, September 23, at 8 pm and Sunday, September 25, at 3 pm at NJPAC in Newark and tomorrow, September 24, at 8 pm at the State Theatre in New Brunswick.
The Courier News and Home News Tribune feature the season-opening program in their “Makin Plans: 10 best things to do this weekend” column:
NJSO will open its latest season with the brilliant, stunning violinist Sarah Chang, who’ll perform Astor Piazzolla’s “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires” and Ravel’s “Tzigane.” Teddy Abrams, the young music director of The Louisville Orchestra and Britt Festival Orchestra, also will be on hand to conduct music from Leonard Bernstein’s “On the Town” and Copland’s “Rodeo.” Other weekend highlights will include College Night in New Brunswick, which for students will include $10 ticket, a post-concert party with refreshments and live entertainment, and bus transportation selection universities (www.njsymphony.org/college). The orchestra also has collaborated with the forthcoming Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival to present a post-concert Sept. 25 performance by poet Kurtis Lamkin and tap dancer Maurice Chestnut inspired by Bernstein and Copland.
» Read the column at www.mycentraljersey.com.
The Jersey Journal also features the NJSO’s opening weekend in its “Things to Do” column. Read it at www.nj.com.
» RELATED: A Q&A with opening-weekend guest conductor Teddy Abrams
» Learn more about College Night.
» Learn more about the September 25 American Poetry Reading, an NJSO Accent event.