‘Tonight’ from West Side Story
In collaboration with Paper Mill Playhouse
BELINDA ALLYN vocalist
MATT DOYLE vocalist
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHAMBER PLAYERS
West Side Story’s “Tonight” is one of the theater’s most iconic love songs. Broadway veterans Belinda Allyn and Matt Doyle perform Maria and Tony’s duet with an NJSO string quartet in this collaboration between the NJSO and Paper Mill Playhouse.
- BERNSTEIN & STEPHEN SONDHEIM “Tonight” from West Side Story
From Pier C Park in Hoboken
NJSO Everywhere
Free! Watch it on demand after the premiere.
BRYAN HERNANDEZ-LUCH violin
MING YANG violin
BRETT DEUBNER viola
LAURA ANDRADE cello
Trailblazing composer George Walker (the first Black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music) lived in Montclair, NJ, for most of his life. We go to the waterfront of Hoboken’s Pier C Park for the movement from his String Quartet No. 1 had later life as his most performed work, Lyric for Strings.
- WALKER Lyric for Strings
‘Being Alive’ from Company
In collaboration with Paper Mill Playhouse
TALLY SESSIONS vocalist
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA STRINGS
Tally Sessions performs “Being Alive,” the finale of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, with NJSO strings in the finale of the NJSO and Paper Mill Playhouse’s four-part series highlighting great songs from the theater.
- STEPHEN SONDHEIM “Being Alive” from Company
From Van Vleck House & Gardens in Montclair
NJSO Everywhere
Free! Watch it on demand after the premiere.
ERIC WYRICK violin
DAVID BLINN viola
NA-YOUNG BAEK cello
ALEXANDER BICKARD bass
ANDREW LAMY clarinet
ROBERT WAGNER bassoon
LAWRENCE DIBELLO horn
The grounds of Van Vleck House & Gardens in Montclair provide a gorgeous backdrop for the first movement of Beethoven’s Septet.
- BEETHOVEN Adagio – Allegro con brio from Septet in E-flat Major