Joyce DiDonato will perform at The Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University, Feb. 22.
Feb. 19: Ziggy & Miles, guitar duo at Bickford Theatre at Morris Museum, Morris Township.
Feb. 19: “Madame Selika 1878: Songbird in the White House” at Hamilton Stage at Union County Performing Arts Center, Rahway. Featuring soprano Candice Hoyes, tenor Chauncey Packer, pianist Kyle Walker.
Feb. 20: All Seasons Chamber Players at Barron Arts Center, Woodbridge.
Feb. 20: Alexander Timofeev, piano, at Bösendorfer Recital Room at Grunin Center for the Arts at Ocean County College, Toms River.
Feb. 20: Anne Matlack, Friday Lenten Organ Recital at Grace Church, Madison. Program includes works by Adolphus Hailstork, Undine Smith Moore, Godwin Sadoh, Calvin Taylor and Sharon Willis.
Feb. 21: The Three Italian Tenors at State Theatre, New Brunswick.
Feb. 21: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Concert Hall at Drew University, Madison. Program includes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Quintet in C minor for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, K. 406; Zoltán Kodály’s Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 12; Antonín Dvořák’s Quintet in E-flat major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 97, “American.”
Feb. 22: Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano, and Time for Three (violinists Nick Kendall and Charles Yang and bassist Ranaan Meyer) at Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University. Program includes Kevin Puts’ Emily — No Prisoner Be (semi-staged song cycle written for DiDonato and Time for Three based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson).
Feb. 22: Brook Orchestra at Brook Arts Center, Bound Brook. Thomas Vacca, conductor. Program includes music by Mozart, Strauss and Beethoven.
Feb. 22: Livingston Symphony Orchestra at Heritage Middle School, Livingston. “The Sound of Red, White, and Blue” program includes Gould’s American Salute; Russell Peck’s Jack and Jill at Bunker Hill and The Thrill of the Orchestra; Gershwin’s An American in Paris; Copland’s Lincoln Portrait; Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever.
Feb. 22: Somerset Symphony Orchestra at United Reformed Church of Somerville. Michael Avagliano, violin and viola; Evelyn Estava, violin. Program includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67; Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin & Viola.
Feb. 22: Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey at Eastern Regional High School, Voorhees. “Sounds of Resistance” program includes Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5; Sibelius’ Finlandia; Vaughan Williams’ Oboe Concerto (featuring Erin Banholzer).
Feb. 22: Stephen Jacobs, guitar, at State Theatre Studio, New Brunswick. Music by Barrios, Brouwer, Albéniz, Villa-Lobos, others.
Feb. 26: New Jersey Symphony, “Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony” at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown. Markus Stenz, conductor. Program includes Richard Wagner’s Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin. Kevin Puts’ Contact (performed by Time for Three); Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.
Feb. 26: Rutgers Symphony Band at Nicholas Music Center at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. “Winter Winds” program includes works by Jaimie Texidor, Alfred Reed, Eric Ewazen, Hayden Wood and others.
Feb. 27: Adelphi Orchestra at River Dell Middle School Auditorium, River Edge. Kyunghun Kim, conductor. “Grace & Elegance” program includes Brahms’ Serenade No 1; Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante (Kathleen Butler-Hopkins, violin; Francesca Silos, viola; Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No 1 (Lanny Paykin, cello).
Feb. 27: Rutgers Wind Ensemble at Nicholas Music Center at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Isabelle Mailman, alto saxophone; Brandon Gordon, clarinet. Program includes Henri Tomasi’s Fanfares Liturgiques; Johann Sebastian Bach’s Contrapunctus IX (arr. Andy Clark); Steven Reineke’s The Witch and the Saint; David Maslanka’s Hosannas.
Feb. 27: Christopher Harlowe-Jennings, Friday Lenten Organ Recital at Grace Church, Madison. “Mendelssohn and More” program.
Feb. 27 and March 1: New Jersey Symphony, “Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony” at Prudential Hall at NJPAC, Newark. Markus Stenz, conductor. Program includes Richard Wagner’s Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin. Kevin Puts’ Contact (performed by Time for Three); Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.
Feb. 28: Mnozil Brass at Pfleeger Concert Hall at Rowan University, Glassboro. Program includes music by Johann Strauss II.
Feb. 28: Dryden Ensemble at Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Princeton. Daniel Swenberg, Baroque lute; Dongsok Shin, Lautenwerk; Edwin Huizinga, Baroque violin. Program includes music by Bach, Weiss, Hagen, DeVisée and Pichler.
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