Backstage: NJSO Announces 2013–14 Season
Music Director Jacques Lacombe and the NJSO yesterday announced the Orchestra’s exciting 2013–14 season of classical, pops and family programs. The NJSO performs masterworks including Verdi’s Requiem, Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) and Beethoven’s Seventh and Eighth Symphonies. Hilary Hahn, Anthony McGill, Yan Pascal Tortelier and James Ehnes lead an outstanding roster of guest artists.
For the September 27 Opening Night Celebration, Lacombe and the Orchestra honor the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech with Ellington’s Three Black Kings, and a special performance of Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony weaves spirituals—sung by Newark church choirs and vocal ensemble Afro Blue—between movements.
The 2014 Winter Festival, “Earth,” features Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) and the U.S. premiere of Tan Dun’s Earth Concerto. The fourth season of the NJSO’s lauded New Jersey Roots Project features the world premieres of two NJSO commissions—new works by Lowell Liebermann and Geri Allen.
POPS highlights include a “Classical Mystery Tour” of the music of the Beatles and a screening of The Wizard of Oz with live orchestral accompaniment.