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When
Friday, April 26, 2019 | 7:30PM EDT
Where
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
Tickets
Tickets are sold out. Turnback tickets may be available to purchase at 5:45pm in Richardson Auditorium. Princeton University Concerts is announcing a reprise of the program in a FREE (but ticketed) concert at the Patriots Theater at the War Memorial in Trenton, NJ on April 27. Tickets for this free concert are required, and will be available at noon on Monday, April 1, 2019 online at princetonuniversityconcerts.org and by calling 609-258-9220. More information>
Concert Classics Series
About the Event
For the final concert in the residency, Maestro Dudamel picks up his baton for the first time and does the thing he does better than anyone else in the world today: inspire and empower young people through the power of music. He will lead the Princeton University Orchestra and Glee Club in a program centered around two great Shakespeare plays, Tchaikovsky’s take on Romeo and Juliet and Mendelssohn’s majestic rendition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The latter will feature narration by Princeton University students in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater: Victoria Davidjohn ’19, Jacy Duan ‘21, Kateryn McReynolds ‘20
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For the final concert in the residency, Maestro Dudamel picks up his baton for the first time and does the thing he does better than anyone else in the world today: inspire and empower young people through the power of music. He will lead the Princeton University Orchestra and Glee Club in a program centered around two great Shakespeare plays, Tchaikovsky’s take on Romeo and Juliet and Mendelssohn’s majestic rendition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The latter will feature narration by Princeton University students in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater: Victoria Davidjohn ’19, Jacy Duan ‘21, Kateryn McReynolds ‘20
Program
FRANZ SCHUBERT Gesang der Geister über den Wassern for Men’s Chorus, D. 714
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet
FELIX MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
The Mendelssohn is performed with narration by Princeton University students in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater: Victoria Davidjohn ’19, Jacy Duan ‘21, Kateryn McReynolds ‘20
Vocal soloists in the Mendelssohn are Allison Spann ’20, soprano and Caroline Zhao ’19, mezzo soprano
The program is roughly 2 hours with one 15 minute intermission.
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