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Concert Coda
PRESS PREVIEW
“Music is my life.” So said French pianist Pascal Rogé, who spoke with Examiner.com briefly after yesterday’s New Jersey Symphony Orchestra rehearsal, Friday, Jan. 24, 2014.”
Full preview: examiner.com—January 25, 2014
FROM THE STAGE
“I see music as a part of our lives, not only as a ‘museum’ experience,” the music director says. “Strauss’ Alpine Symphony shows us how music is a reflection of our world—it is a monument of the repertoire and such a majestic depiction of mountains and nature. I also like to revisit and rediscover forgotten repertoire like D’Indy’s Symphony on a French Mountain Air. Pascal Rogé is a very fine pianist, especially when it comes to French music, and I was thrilled to have him join us.
“This concert closed the four-year ‘Man & Nature’ Winter Festival cycle. The idea behind it was to connect what we do on the concert stage to our daily lives, using nature and the environment as a link. It has been interesting to look at music on many levels, to take the time to reflect on nature and environmental issues. I’m very pleased with how the cycle evolved and how we in the concert hall were able to reflect on our world, on the beauty of nature and how important it is to treat it well. It’s been a very rich experience, and in four seasons we have included many groups from our communities in the Winter Festival—theater companies, choirs, environmental organizations.”
—Jacques Lacombe, music director
PROGRAM INFORMATION
JACQUES LACOMBE conductor
PASCAL ROGÉ piano
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
WAGNER Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser
D’INDY Symphony on a French Mountain Air
STRAUSS Alpine Symphony
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