Press preview Raiders of the Lost Ark, Winter Festival concerts
Press preview the NJSO’s January offerings, as the Orchestra kicks off 2017 with Raiders of the Lost Ark in concert and a three-week Winter Festival with legendary violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman.
NJArts.net counts the Raiders of the Lost Ark performances among the week’s top 10 arts events. The NJSO plays John Williams’ epic score live as the classic Indiana Jones film screens above the stage, January 6–8 in Red Bank, Newark and New Brunswick.
The Asbury Park Press previews Raiders of the Lost Ark, chatting with NJSO President & CEO Gabriel van Aalst:
“The music is almost a character itself in the plot of Indiana Jones, and it’s really so iconic and it’s been ingrained into the pop culture zeitgeist since it came out,” said van Aalst. “The thing that I think is special about it is that it captures that pop, pulp fiction sensibility that Indiana Jones does so well.
“(There’s) lots of serialized, swashbuckling action, and the score really encapsulates that in a really exciting way. I personally can’t imagine it with any other score. It just adds so much to the film.”
The Home News Tribune and Courier News’ “Makin Plans” column highlights the film concerts:
NJSO will perform John Williams’ epic film score live at screenings of Steven Spielberg’s classic Indiana Jones adventure. In a news release, the five-time Oscar-winning maestro said, “The experience of composing the music for this film, and for the subsequent installments in the series, was a very happy one, and it offered me a wild and truly joyous ride. I’m especially delighted that the magnificent New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has agreed to perform the music in live presentations of the movie. I know I speak for everyone connected with the making of ‘Raiders’ in saying that we are greatly honored by this event … and I hope that this weekend’s audiences will experience some measure of the joy and fun we did when making the film 35 years ago.” NJSO Accents will present free, insightful “Inside Indy” events before the [NJPAC] and State Theatre performances that will provide ticket holders with fun trivia and stories via Cinema Retro Publisher Lee Pfeiffer.
NJArts.net features the 2017 Winter Festival, January 13–26 at all six NJSO venues statewide, in its “big list” of the year’s major New Jersey arts events. Nine concerts across three weekends showcase Zukerman's unique artisty as both violin soloist and conductor.
In a preview of 2017 concerts in the Princeton area, The Times of Trenton writes:
No matter what 2017 may hold, you should make it a New Year's resolution to catch as many concerts as you can. Here are some representative enticements from among those scheduled to come your way during the remainder of the season.
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will bring the middle panel of this year's triptych of Winter Festival Concerts to Princeton's Richardson Auditorium on Jan. 20. Pinchas Zukerman will be the soloist in Beethoven's Violin Concerto, and Christian Vasquez will conduct works by Samuel Barber and Camille Saint-Saens. For more information on the festival and the remainder of the NJSO season, including additional Princeton appearances on Mar. 24 & May 12, go to www.njsymphony.org.
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