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Limited-time
offer!
Welcome Back Sale:
Save 20% on select concerts.
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We
cannot wait to be back in the concert hall with you and to share the
experience of live music together again! To celebrate, we’re offering a
special ticket deal to welcome you back.
Use promo code WELCOME20 to get
20% off of select concerts
throughout the 2021–22 season. This sale ends Sunday, October 10, at 3 pm.
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COVID-19
Safety
For more information on patron safety protocols when visiting our
venues, click here.
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Be Part
of Our Return — Save on Amazing Concerts
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Opening
Weekend: New Jersey Symphony Returns
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We are beyond thrilled
to welcome you back. Beethoven’s Seventh mourns and dances and
gives voice to everything humanity has lived through this past year
and a half. We’ve got brand new music to mark the new season, too:
Michael Abels, who wrote the score for the Oscar-winning film Get Out, launches us with his
riveting new orchestral work. And our new Resident Artistic
Catalyst, Daniel Bernard Roumain, taps his Haitian roots as he
solos in his own Voodoo Violin
Concerto.
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Beethoven
& Saint-Georges
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Nicholas McGegan makes
music written over 200 years ago sound as if the ink is still wet.
He, the NJSO and audience favorite Augustin Hadelich bring to life
the rambunctious genius of a young Beethoven and the virtuosic
elegance of the first known classical composer of African ancestry,
Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
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Presented in Newark and Morristown
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Daniil
Trifonov Plays Brahms
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Fresh off of a
riveting NJSO Concert Film performance, Artist-in-Residence Daniil
Trifonov returns for Brahms’ First. Only a powerhouse pianist and
conductor in perfect sync can make this thrilling climb. Jessie
Montgomery’s sizzling Starburst
leads things off before Xian Zhang brings a fresh take to a beloved
Czech masterwork, Smetana’s Má vlast,
tapping the warm strings and beautifully rounded brass threaded
into the Symphony’s DNA by former music director Zdenek Macal.
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Presented in Newark and Red Bank
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Picture a
silver waterfall plunging from a towering mountain into a fjord
below—and you have the opening of Grieg’s Piano Concerto. An
exquisite painter at the piano, Vladimir Feltsman brings the
concerto’s hold-your-breath moments to vivid life. Andrey Boreyko’s
NJSO debut also features a pathbreaking ballet by his countryman
Igor Stravinsky and a new work by living legend Thomas Adès.
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Presented in Princeton, Red Bank and Newark
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Xian
Zhang Conducts Marsalis & Dvořák
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NJSO brass and woodwinds shine in works showcasing their
special sound and virtuosity. We kick off with a brand new fanfare
from jazz master Wynton Marsalis, Joan Tower’s take on Copland’s
vision and Dvořák’s beguiling serenade. The full orchestra sparkles
in Copland’s homage to Abraham Lincoln.
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Presented in Newark and New Brunswick
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2022
Lunar New Year Celebration
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Celebrate the
Year of the Tiger as the NJSO continues a tradition that welcomes
all audiences for a festive evening of community and cultural
exchange.
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A journey from
darkness to light. Samy Moussa’s Nocturne
evokes the sea at night under a moody half-moon. Mozart’s
Third Violin Concerto is a musical sunrise, and we’re delighted to
welcome back Karen Gomyo and her unequaled ability to spin out
Mozart’s radiant lyricism. Finally, the organ’s entrance in the finale
of Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 is like throwing curtains open to
noontime sun.
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Presented in Newark and New Brunswick
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Tchaikovsky’s
touching final music, his Sixth Symphony, is on the short list of
so many music lovers, and we are so excited to perform it for you.
We lead into it with a gorgeous overture by Louise Farrenc, who
with one beautiful score after another, broke all sorts of glass
ceilings in 19th-century France. And Concertmaster Eric Wyrick and
Juan Pablo Jofre team up for Jofre’s Concerto for violin and
bandoneon—a popular tango-loving cousin of the accordion from
Jofre’s native Argentina.
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Presented in Red Bank and Newark
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Superb NJSO principals
step into the spotlight: Bart Feller in a tour de force that lets
the flute’s shining personalities sing out, and Jonathan Spitz in a
piece many call the perfect cello concerto. Xian Zhang bookends
this beauty with iconic pieces by the master orchestral colorist
Maurice Ravel, ending with the slow-build hurricane of Boléro.
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Presented in Newark and Morristown
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Artist-in-Residence
Daniil Trifonov—“the most astounding pianist of our age” (The Times)—returns for his
second week this season with a brand new concerto written for him
by a musical polymath—DJ and composer Mason Bates. Xian Zhang
specializes in Tchaikovsky’s singing line, digging deep into the
sorrow and joy that makes her favorite Russian composer’s music
utterly unique.
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Presented in Newark, Princeton and New Brunswick
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Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5
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French-Canadian
wonder Louis Lortie teams up with the NJSO to perform Beethoven’s
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5. This concert shows Beethoven at the
starting line of his career, full of youthful fire, and at his
glorious pinnacle.
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Presented in Newark and New Brunswick
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Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2, 3 & 4
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Louis Lortie’s exploration of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos
with the NJSO continues with Nos. 2, 3 & 4. The “middle set”
holds surprisingly tender music, and passages of jaw-dropping
virtuosity, from the heaven-storming composer.
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Presented in Newark and Morristown
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Zhang
Conducts Mozart’s
‘Jupiter’
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The “Jupiter” Symphony
offers inspiration for the sheer miracle and Swiss-watch perfection
of its final movement—and heartache, because this was Mozart’s last
symphony. Beloved Principal Bassoon Robert Wagner has served NJSO
audiences for 42 years; he plays the East Coast premiere of
Christopher Rouse’s lyrical concerto. And why not play with convention
and end with a starter: the rousing “Hi-yo, Silver!” curtain-raiser
to Rossini’s Guillaume Tell.
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Presented in Newark and Red Bank
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Conrad
Tao Plays Tchaikovsky
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Since Conrad Tao’s
NJSO appearance four seasons ago, his career has exploded: he’s
written music for the New York Philharmonic, performed all over the
world and earned a huge spread in The
New York Times. He plays his own playful Spoonfuls and Tchaikovsky’s
big-shouldered First, with Shostakovich’s lighthearted Ninth
between.
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Presented in Newark, Princeton and Morristown
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The NJSO’s
Brennan Sweet and Elzbieta Weyman play some of the loveliest music
ever written for violin and viola, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante.
Kathleen Nester makes the orchestra’s tiniest instrument sing loud
and proud in Vivaldi’s Piccolo Concerto. The sunshine of
Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony warms the entire program.
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Presented in Newark, Princeton and New Brunswick
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Season
Finale: An American Rhapsody
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We end the season with
fireworks made in the USA. DBR kicks off the festivities with his
exciting new work. The sparkling talent of NJSO Principal Horn
Chris Komer shines in a new concerto written for him by four
leading jazz composers. Aaron Dworkin, the visionary founder of the
Sphinx Organization which lifts up young Black and Latinx
musicians, narrates Coleridge-Taylor’s moving Rhapsody with the words of our
nation’s first president. And the City of Lights swirls around you
in Gershwin’s beloved classic.
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Presented in Red Bank and Newark
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Please
note: All artists, programs, dates & times are subject to change.
All film concerts are excluded from this sale.
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Compose Your Own Series
Compose
your ideal concert series for the 2021–22 season! Select three
or more of our upcoming performances, including Daniil Trifonov Plays
Brahms, Beethoven’s Piano Concertos and
Karen Gomyo Plays Mozart. Get the flexibility you need with
the benefits that come from subscribing.
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Bank
of America is proud to sponsor the NJSO Resident Artistic Catalyst.
DBR
as Resident Artistic Catalyst is made possible in part by Judith Musser.
Daniil Trifonov as Artist-in-Residence is made possible by Judy and
Stewart Colton.
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information@njsymphony.org
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