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Saturday, March 1

The 3rd Annual Columbia/Princeton 
Jazz Summit
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, 8:00PM
 
Tickets are $15 General; $5 Students.  Please call 609-258-9220.
Sunday, March 2

The Richardson Chamber Players
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, 3:00PM


Players to include Elizabeth DiFelice, piano; Wayne DuMaine, trumpet; Jo-Ann Sternberg, clarinet; Alistair MacRae, cello; Sarah Pelletier, soprano; Matthew Sullivan, oboe; Kyle Armbrustt, viola; members of the Princeton University Orchestra conducted by Michael Pratt.

ROY HARRIS  Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
            BARBER  Adagio for String Quartet
            BERNSTEIN  Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
            CARTER  Tempo e Tempi
            COPLAND  Quiet City

Tickets are $15 General; $5 Students.  Please call 609-258-9220 or BUY TICKETS NOW>
Monday, March 3

Musicology Colloquium:  
Sydney Hutchinson, Syracuse University
Woolworth Center, Room 106, 4:30PM

Sydney Hutchinson of Syracuse University presents "A Tigress of a Different Stripe: Performing Gender in Dominican Music from Fefita to Rita." 

FREE Admission.
Tuesday, March 4
Princeton Sound Kitchen
Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall, 8:00PM

The Princeton Sound Kitchen presents Jennifer Frautschi, violin and John Blacklow, piano in a program of works by Princeton professors Barbara White and Steven Mackey.  The program also features music by Stephen Hartkee, Elena Ruehrd, and Dan Coleman.

FREE Admission.
Thursday, March 6
Jazz @ Caf� Vivian
Caf� Vivian, Frist Campus Center, 11:00PM

Featuring the University Monk/Mingus Ensemble coached by Jim Ridl.

FREE Admission.

Sponsored by the Program in Jazz Studies

Friday, March 7
Saturday, March 8

Princeton University Orchestra
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, 7:30PM

The Princeton University Orchestra performs Friday, March 7 at 7:30PM and Saturday, March 8 at 7:30PM at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.  Led by Maestro Michael Pratt, the Orchestra will perform a program to include Benjamin Britten's cantata Phaedra - the composer's last vocal work - featuring mezzo-soprano Barbara Rearick. Princeton sophomore Jessie Chen will join the Orchestra as soloist for Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra and junior Nicholas Stead will perform Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Both Chen and Stead are winners of the Orchestra's annual Concerto Competition. The program will conclude with one of Mozart's beloved late works,the Symphony No. 38 in D Major "Prague." Princeton Professor of Music Wendy Heller will offer pre-performance remarks about Phaedra, which is presented as part of the campus-wide initiative"Myth in Transformation: The Phaedra Project"

 


Tickets are $15 General, $5 Students.  Please call 609-258-9220.
Sunday, March 9
Richard Goode, Piano 
C.K. Williams, Poet
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, 3:00PM
Pre-concert talk moderated by Professor Jeff Dolven at 2:00PM

On the heels of the successful Princeton University Concerts collaboration of countertenor David Daniels and choreographer Mark Morris, two more superlative artists partner in 2014: Grammy-winning pianist Richard Goode and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams

 

The New York Times calls the poetry-loving Mr. Goode

"a poet of the piano," while Paul Muldoon hails Mr. Williams, who has written of music as "this exaltation, this splendor, this bliss," as "one of the most distinguished poets of his generation." Among the pieces Mr. Goode will perform is Janacek's On an Overgrown Path , one of the works in which the composer expressed his profound despair at the death of his 21-year-old daughter. Missing the partnership of these like-minded poets -- a Princeton exclusive -- would be tragic indeed.  

 

Please note that this concert was rescheduled from the 2012-2013 season and will be offered free to all subscribers who were originally holding a ticket to the concert on May 9, 2013.

 
Tickets are $45, $35, $20 General and $10, $5 Students.  Please call 609-258-9220 or BUY TICKETS NOW >

Wednesday, March 12
Jazz Vespers
University Chapel, 8:00PM


FREE Admission.

Sponsored by the Program in Jazz Studies

Saturday, March 15

Meet The Music:  "Leave it to Ludwig"
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, 1:00PM

 
Kids ages six and up embrace the joys of classical chamber music in this renowned program of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, hosted by composer Bruce Adolphe, Director of Family Programs at CMSLC.  A 21st Century embodiment of composer/educator Leonard Bernstein and comedian/performer Victor Borge, Adolphe makes the discovery -- or rediscovery -- of chamber music a hoot for the whole family.

Beethoven's instrumental music creates powerful stories.  But what is the tale?  His music tells of everyday human life, full of action and emotions.  Beethoven himself will appear in Richardson to help a young pianist play his music as he meant it to be played.  Featuring music of Beethoven.
 
Tickets are $10 Adults, $5 Kids.  Please call 609-258-9220 or BUY TICKETS NOW>
Tuesday, March 25
Princeton Sound Kitchen
Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall, 8:00PM

The Princeton Sound Kitchen presents an evening of video works and multi-channel audio works by Princeton composers.

FREE Admission.
Thursday, March 27

Musicology Colloquium:  
Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University
Woolworth Center, Room 106, 4:30PM
 
Mark Anthony Neal presents "Trapped in the Soul Closet" 

FREE Admission.

Thursday, March 27
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-Soprano
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, 8:00PM
 
"A commanding, royal presence" is how Vanity Fair refers to golden-voiced mezzo Joyce DiDonato, who says the characters in her recent album, "Drama Queens," run the gamut of emotions from "suicidal sadness to rapturous bliss." For Gramophone Magazine's Hall of Fame issue, composer Jake Heggie said the Kansas-born mega-star's staggering artistry "reminds us that in any generation there are few giants... She is a transformative presence...  Joyce sings and the world is suddenly brighter. Every gleaming note and phrase is infused with connection, meaning and an almost unnerving empathy."  And here is Alex Ross in The New Yorker: "There are singers who are secure in technique but cautious in expression, there are singers who deliver passion but damage the ears, and then there is Joyce DiDonato, who consistently finds the golden mean... [She] has a way of capturing extreme emotions without resorting to excess: she is a singer not only of flair and power but of intelligence and taste."  The intelligent (not to mention tasteful) thing for you to do would be to purchase tickets to her only 2014 United States recital -- right here in Princeton -- right now.

Tickets are $45, $35, $20 General, $10, $5 Students.  Please call 609-258-9220 or BUY TICKETS NOW>
Friday, March 28
Student Recital
Darya Koltunyuk '15, Piano
Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall, 7:30PM
 
Program TBA. 

FREE Admission.

Saturday, March 29
Student Recital
Deberly Kaufmann'14, Cello
Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall, 7:30PM
 
Program TBA. 

FREE Admission.

Sunday, March 30
Student Recital
Priscella Chan '14, Piano
Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall, 3:00PM
 
Program TBA. 

FREE Admission.

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