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Princeton University Orchestra Artemis String Quartet Inon Barnatan Princeton University Glee Club Rafal Blechacz Ian Bostridge Anthony D.J. Branker Composers Ensemble Richard Goode Gabriel Crouch Julius Drake Brentano String Quartet East Coast Chamber Orchestra Elias String Quartet Princeton University Jazz Ensembles Julia Fischer The English Concert Richardson Chamber Players Michael Pratt Angelika Kirchschlager Takács String Quartet Tenebrae Princeton University Concerts Tokyo String Quartet Barbara White C.K. Williams 2012-2013 SEASON
MUSIC AT PRINCETON “As musicians, we don’t just think, we feel; that’s how we reach the spiritual and sensual dimensions of music.” GABRIEL CROUCH, DIRECTOR OF CHORAL MUSIC
Princeton University fully embraces the performing arts as an essential part of its educational mission. An institution that nurtures and values creativity and innovation, Princeton is an increasingly important patron of the arts and music is at its core. Every year, students, faculty, staff and community come together to participate in or enjoy the presentation of hundreds of concerts in every genre. The Music Department hosts the nations’ first PhD program in composition as well as an equally distinguished musicology faculty and maintains an active concert program, showcasing the exceptional talents of its faculty and students. The Princeton University Concerts series carries out a 119-year-old mission to bring professional musicians of the highest caliber from all over the world to campus. Together the two enhance the vitality and richness of our community, both on and off campus. At the heart of our focus are students. Through classroom visits, curricular connections, world premieres, large-scale interdisciplinary collaborations, masterclasses, residencies and one-on-one contact with professional musicians, students’ lives are transformed by musical engagement.
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TA K ÁC S S T R I N G Q UA R T E T
CONCERT CLASSICS SERIES Thursday, October 4, 2012 8 pm*
Takács String Quartet
Works by Schubert, Britten and Dvořák — One of the world’s great string quartets opens the season concluding the program with Dvořák’s familiar and rousing “American” quartet.
Thursday, November 8, 2012 8 pm
Tenebrae, Britain’s Premier Chamber Choir Nigel Short, Director
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CHAPEL
Works by Rachmaninoff, Paul Mealor, Arvo Pärt and Tchaikovsky — Britain’s 17-voice Tenebrae has quickly become one of the premier chamber choirs in the world. Come enjoy treasures of the choral repertoire in the gothic splendor of the Princeton University Chapel.
Thursday, February 7, 2013 8 pm*
Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo-soprano Ian Bostridge, tenor
Hugo Wolf Spanisches Liederbuch — Britain’s Opera Today has said that “Religious fervor and sexual ecstasy are almost indistinguishable” in these special Wolf songs. Here’s a rare treat to hear them sung by two of the world’s great lieder singers.
Thursday, February 21, 2013 8 pm*
The English Concert R A FA L B L EC H AC Z
Harry Bicket, Director Works by Handel, Telemann, Bach and Purcell — One of the world’s finest Baroque chamber orchestras, acclaimed for its Handel interpretations, anchors the biennial American Handel Society Festival in Princeton in 2013.
Thursday, March 14, 2013 8 pm*
Artemis String Quartet
Works by Mendelssohn, Bach and Piazzolla — Three very distinct composers will be in the sensitive hands of the Berlin-based Artemis String Quartet, one of the leading ensembles of their generation.
Thursday, April 4, 2013 8 pm* Works by Haydn, Janáček and Schumann — The intensely talented Elias Quartet, newly recorded in a live concert at London’s Wigmore Hall, will perform in Princeton for the first time.
Thursday, April 25, 2013 8 pm*
Rafal Blechacz, piano
Works by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and Szymanowski — The uncontested winner of the 15th Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw and a national hero in Poland will make his much anticipated Princeton debut.
Thursday, May 9, 2013 8 pm*
Richard Goode, piano • C.K. Williams, poet
Works by Beethoven, Janáček, Brahms and Chopin, plus poems read by C.K. Williams — Two superlative artists, one a Grammy-winning pianist and the other a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, partner for an evening of music and the spoken word.
JULIA FISCHER
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14 concerts · Tickets: $15 general / $5 students
5 concerts · Tickets: $15 general / $5 students
Princeton’s evergreen orchestra, comprising undergraduate and graduate student musicians, has proudly waved the University’s pennant for 116 years. In an age when it is the rare conductor who stays with an orchestra for even 20 years, Michael Pratt has led the ensemble for 35, nearly one third of its existence! The Orchestra will tour the Low Countries this year, but you will have many opportunities to enjoy its dynamic music-making right here in Richardson Auditorium. Among the works to be performed are Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, which Maestro Pratt calls “one of the composer’s most powerful and profound works, ranging from Russian-winter dark brooding to savage anger to final explosive joy.” The season also includes works of two Princeton composers: Professor Dmitri Tymoczko’s Power Chords, a piece which climaxes by channeling Louis Armstrong, and graduate student Gilad Cohen’s Dragon Mother, about a mom who grows wings, scales, horns and hot breath when things don’t go well for her child, and, in a too-rare collaboration with the Princeton University Glee Club, Poulenc’s radiant Gloria coupled with Ravel’s complete Daphnis et Chloé, including its seldom heard choral part. “This,” foretells the Maestro, “will be almost too much beauty to bear.”
George Frideric Handel was 22 in 1707 when, during a threeyear visit to Rome, he was commissioned by a Cardinal to write what proved to be the irresistible Dixit Dominus. In 1739, living in London, Handel introduced his oratorio Israel in Egypt; although not instantly embraced by the public, it has since achieved popularity second only to Messiah in his canon. The Princeton Glee Club and Chamber Choir will perform both of these works as part of the biennial American Handel Society Festival in the winter of 2013. The Glee Club’s season also includes two French masterpieces sharing a program. Ravel described his choral work Daphnis et Chloé, commissioned by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, as a “symphonie choréographique”; through lush impressionism it tells of the love of a goatherd and a shepherdess. Poulenc’s shimmering Gloria, commissioned for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, helped earned him a place among the great composers of sacred choral music. For 99 years, the Princeton Glee Club has participated with those of Harvard and Yale in concerts prior to the football games between their respective teams, and this season Princeton will host Harvard at Richardson Auditorium. No matter what the score of the contest, you will surely love the scores of the concert.
Saturday, October 20, 2012 7:30 pm Sunday, October 21, 2012 3 pm
Friday, October 19, 2012 7:30 pm
DMITRI TYMOCZKO Power Chords, for String Quartet and Orchestra Amernet String Quartet, guest artists SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB AND CHAMBER CHOIR
November 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 2012 8 pm
Readings and Carols — seasonal music and readings in the Glee Club’s celebration of the holiday season.
McCarter Theatre Center, Berlind Theatre IN COLLABORATION WITH THE LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
after MOLIÈRE, R. STRAUSS and HOFFMANNSTAHL Der Bourgeois Bigshot GILAD COHEN Dragon Mother (World Premiere) Martha Elliott, soprano R. STRAUSS Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major Max Jacobson ’13, horn BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 2 Caitlin Wood ’15, violin COPLAND El Salón México
Friday & Saturday, March 8 & 9, 2013 7:30 pm Winners of 2013 Concerto Competition WAGNER Preludes to Acts I and III, Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Friday & Saturday, April 26 & 27, 2013 7:30 pm WITH THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB STUART B. MINDLIN MEMORIAL CONCERTS
POULENC Gloria RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:30 pm
Julia Fischer, violin
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013 7:30 pm Pre-concert talk at 6:30 pm Inon Barnatan, piano PADEREWSKI MEMORIAL CONCERT
“Honoring Woodrow Wilson,” works by Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Schelling and Stojowski — When Woodrow Wilson died in 1925, Princeton University Concerts invited Ignacy Paderewski to perform a recital in honor of his late friend, colleague and political ally. Mr. Barnatan will recreate that recital to mark 100 years since Wilson entered the White House. • Single tickets: $15 general / $5 students. Available to Full Concert Classics Series subscribers at a 20% discount off single ticket prices.
TO K YO S T R I N G Q UA R T E T
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:30 pm
Tokyo String Quartet Works by Mendelssohn and Bartók — This FREE concert, a gift to the Princeton community, will mark one of the Tokyo Quartet’s final performances before its extraordinary 44-year history comes to an end in June 2013. Princeton’s love affair with the quartet spans four decades and dozens of appearances. They leave behind an amazing legacy, including close to 20 CDs recorded in Princeton’s own Richardson Auditorium. We are proud of our association with the quartet and invite you to join us in bidding them a musical farewell.
The Composers Ensemble provides a forum for Princeton composers to realize their musical visions onstage, cultivating a spirit of exploration and inquiry. Each season the next generation of the most gifted young composers, all drawn by Princeton’s celebrated PhD program in composition, create acoustic, electronic, improvised and theatrical works, bringing them to life in collaboration with the most devoted and expert performers of contemporary music. This season features performances by janus, the Brentano String Quartet, Third Coast Percussion, Roomful of Teeth, Yarn/Wire and Ireland’s Crash Ensemble. These free and informal concerts are open to the public, with the opportunity to meet with the composers and performers afterwards. Stay tuned to the Music Department’s website for more details.
Richardson Baroque plays all-Purcell
Works by Villa-Lobos, Weill and Hindemith
Works by Bartók, Kurtág, Chopin and Dvořák
Players to include Wendy Young, harpsichord; Nancy Wilson and Vita Wallace, Baroque violins; David Miller, viola; Vivian Barton Dozor, cello & gamba; Laura Heimes, soprano
Players to include Jayn Rosenfeld, flute; Bob Wagner, bassoon; Chris Komer, horn; Rutao Mao, violin; Danielle Farina, viola; Alberto Parrini, cello; Martha Elliott, soprano; Barbara Rearick, mezzo-soprano
Single tickets: $15 general / $5 students. Available to Full Concert Classics Series subscribers $24.
Something Slavic
Players to include Margaret Kampmeier and Edmund Niemann, pianos; Lisa Shihoten, violin; Jessica Thompson, viola; Alberto Parrini, cello
B R E N TA N O S T R I N G Q UA R T E T
Sunday, April 28, 2013 3 pm
Bachianas & More
Sunday, March 3, 2013 3 pm PRINCETON UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB
HANDEL
Israel in Egypt
Friday & Saturday, April 26 & 27, 2013 7:30 pm PRINCETON UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB WITH THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA
POULENC Gloria RAVEL Daphnis et Chloë
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLES princeton.edu/ puje
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“If you want to discover,” says conductor, composer and educator Dr. Anthony D. J. Branker, “always be willing to explore.” And that neatly sums up the purpose of the Princeton University Jazz Program. Princeton’s jazz groups have performed in Europe and Asia, and have collaborated with other prestigious ensembles including those from The Juilliard School, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and Australia’s Sydney Conservatorium of Music. They’ve also worked with Grammy-winning trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard. Branker “so obviously loves what he is doing that his audiences just beam at his concerts,” says Princeton Professor Scott Burnham. “Everyone goes home happy.”
THE RALPH BOWEN QUARTET WITH THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONCERT JAZZ ENSEMBLE Ralph Bowen, Guest Conductor
Saturday, February 9, 2013 8 pm FREE ADMISSION • TAPLIN AUDITORIUM IN FINE HALL
Composing in the Moment – an annual recital featuring original works composed and performed by members of the Princeton University Jazz Faculty, featuring Ralph Bowen, tenor saxophone; Bruce Arnold, guitar; Michael Cochrane, piano; Brian Glassman, bass; Adam Cruz, drums; and Dr. Anthony D. J. Branker, musical director
Saturday, March 2, 2013 7:30 pm MCCARTER THEATRE CENTER, MATTHEWS THEATRE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONCERT JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND JUILLIARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Saturday, May 11, 2013 8 pm PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONCERT JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND JAZZ VOCAL COLLECTIVE Dr. Anthony D. J. Branker, Director
FREE CONCERTS, reservations required
To celebrate their 20th anniversary, the members of the extraordinarily talented Brentano Quartet issued a delicious challenge, asking leading composers of our day to “complete” works abandoned by such giants of the past as Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Shostakovich. One of today’s composer’s, Bruce Adolphe, responded to Schubert’s unfinished Quartettsatz, which he found “very dance-y, like a whirling Dervish. I was thinking about the tunes spinning around and dancing in certain patterns, a sense of swirling so that the material has centrifugal force. Ideas would fly out and I’d pull them back in; it was like a salad-spinner with tomatoes flying off to the sides!” It’s rather doubtful that Schubert owned a salad-spinner—which, in a way, is the whole point.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013 3 pm
Dixit Dominus
Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence
RICHARDSON CHAMBER PLAYERS
Music for a While
HANDEL
Our resident ensemble of performance faculty, distinguished guest artists and supremely talented students
Sunday, November 11, 2012 3 pm
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB AND CHAMBER CHOIR
BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
FREE CONCERT, reservations required
Michael Pratt, Director
Taplin Auditorium
Saturday, December 1, 2012 8 pm
Concert dates TBD · Free admission. No reservations required. SIDEBAND OPENS THE SEASON ON SEPTEMBER 15 AT THE ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON
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Friday, February 22, 2013 7:30 pm
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONCERT JAZZ ENSEMBLE Ralph Bowen, Guest Conductor
Barbara White, Director • Michael Pratt, Associate Director
Works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Geminiani and Britten — Imagine hearing two dozen of the very best young string players in the country play music they love with all the passion and fire at their command. Now imagine that, as a bonus, they ask you to play with them! That’s precisely what ECCO is, and what they’ll do in Princeton. Stay tuned for more details.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB AND CHAMBER CHOIR
Saturday, October 13, 2012 8 pm
COMPOSERS ENSEMBLE
East Coast Chamber Orchestra & YOU
Sunday, December 9, 2012 3 pm
5 concerts · Tickets: $15 general / $5 students, unless otherwise noted ROOMFUL OF TEETH
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 7:30 pm
Annual Football Concert — a 99-year tradition, Princeton Glee Club hosts Harvard for the annual choral face-off
Dr. Anthony D. J. Branker, Director
Reunions Fireworks Concert
• Single tickets: $40, $30, $20 / $5 students. Available to Full Concert Classics Series subscribers at a 20% discount off single ticket prices.
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Gabriel Crouch, Conductor
Saturday, June 1, 2013 8 pm
Solo works by Bach, Ysaÿe and Hindemith — One of the hottest artists in the entire world of classical music, this extraordinary young German violinist will return to Princeton for her only solo recital outside of Carnegie Hall before taking a hiatus from US recitals.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB
Michael Pratt, Conductor
Friday & Saturday, December 7 & 8, 2012 7:30 pm
Elias String Quartet
SPECIAL EVENTS
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA
Friday, September 14, 2012 7:30 pm
Fragments, linking past and present, a project celebrating
the 20th anniversary of the Brentano Quartet Dufay/Charles Wuorinen; Bach/Gubaidulina; Haydn/John Harbison; Mozart/Vijay Iyer; Schubert/Bruce Adolphe; Shostakovich/Stephen Hartke
Sunday, April 7, 2013 3 pm HAYDN BEETHOVEN BARTÓK
Quartet Op. 33, No. 2 (“The Joke”) String Quartet Op. 74 String Quartet No. 4