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WQXR Broadcasts

June 9, 2023

WQXR Broadcast: June 9, 2023 at 8 pm

More information on the concert and program notes.

WWFM Broadcasts

February 12, 2024

WWFM Broadcast: February 12, 2024

Concert originally performed March 30, 31 & April 2, 2023.

Eric Jacobsen joins the New Jersey Symphony to conduct a program that centers on honoring the lives of those that were lost, beginning with Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin. Then, Tiffany Townsend takes the spotlight to perform Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lilacs before she and the Symphony are joined by Reginald Smith Jr. and the Montclair State University Chorale for Fauré’s divine choral-orchestral masterpiece, Requiem.

Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin

Walker Lilacs

Fauré Requiem

January 1, 2024

WWFM Broadcast: January 1, 2024

Concert featuring Saint-Georges and Beethoven originally performed October 14, 16 & 17, 2021. Concert featuring Still originally performed March 25 & 26, 2023.

Nicholas McGegan leads the New Jersey Symphony as he conducts Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ Overture to L’amante anonyme, with violinist Augustin Hadelich joining for Saint-Georges’ Violin Concerto, Op. 5, No. 2 and Beethoven’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2. In between these pieces, former Music Director Neeme Järvi returns to conduct William Grant Still’s most beloved work, his “Afro-American” Symphony.

Chevalier de Saint-Georges Overture to L’amante anonyme

Chevalier de Saint-Georges Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 5, No. 2

Still Symphony No. 1, “Afro-American”

Beethoven Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2

April 14, 2023

WWFM Broadcast: April 14, 2023

Concert originally performed March 10, 11, 12 & 13, 2022.

Xian Zhang and the New Jersey Symphony bring out the best of Tchaikovsky with three of his most famous works: Capriccio italien, the fantasy-overture of Romeo and Juliet and his Suite from Swan Lake. Plus, Daniil Trifonov makes his second appearance as the 2021–22 season’s Artist-in-Residence to perform a concerto that was written for him by DJ and composer Mason Bates.

Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien

Mason Bates Piano Concerto

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture

Tchaikovsky Suite from Swan Lake

The Cone Institute Concert on WWFM and WQXR’s New Sounds

2023 Cone Institute Concert

WWFM Broadcast: October 2, 2023 at 8 pm

Concert originally performed July 15, 2023. Case Scaglione conducts the New Jersey Symphony premieres of dynamic works by Tom Morrison, Kory Reeder, Sam Wu and Yangfan Xu, plus the “Sphere” movement from Institute Director Steven Mackey’s Concerto for Curved Space, at the New Jersey Symphony Edward T. Cone Composition Institute at NJPAC in Newark.

Tom Morrison Messages in the Ground

Kory Reeder Walls of Brocade Fields

Sam Wu Hydrosphere

Yangfan Xu Bya

Steven Mackey “Sphere” from Concerto for Curved Space

2019 Cone Institute Concert

WWFM Broadcast: November 29, 2019 at 8 pm

Concert originally performed July 20, 2019. Cristian Măcelaru conducts the New Jersey Symphony premieres of dynamic works by the composers of the New Jersey Symphony Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, a multi-faceted program that promotes new music and emerging composers. The Institute composers will briefly share the inspiration behind their pieces in an evening that will show the vibrant future of orchestral music. More info on the institute here.

See videos and read Q&A’s with the composers here.

DAN CAPUTO Liminal


PATRICK O’MALLEY Rest and Restless


IVÁN ENRIQUE RODRÍGUEZ A Metaphor for Power


BORA YOON The Wind of Two Koreas


STEVEN MACKEY Portals, Scenes and Celebrations (East Coast Premiere)

2018 Cone Institute Concert

WWFM Broadcast: October 19, 2018 at 8 pm

Concert originally performed July 14, 2018. David Robertson conducted. Recorded at Richardson Auditorium in Princeton.

More information on the concert and program notes.

JONATHAN CZINER Resonant Bells

NATALIE DIETTERICH Aeolian Dusts

AARON HENDRIX Night Train

BRIAN SHANK Into the Rose Garden

2017 Cone Institute Concert

WQXR's New Sounds

World Premieres from Four Emerging Composers with the New Jersey Symphony

JOANN FALLETTA conductor
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

SAAD HADDAD Takht
NOAH KAPLAN Forest Through Forest
SAM LIPMAN Song of the Bhagavan
ALYSSA WEINBERG Tereza Slumbers

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