Examiner reviews ‘Tempest’ Winter Festival concert

Richard Carter of Examiner.com writes:

Saturday night, Jan. 26, in Newark’s Prudential Hall, Jacques Lacombe and his world-class New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) scored another resounding success with a concert program that focussed on orchestral storms. The first two works—Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Tempest’ Fantasy-Overture and Jean Sibelius’ Selections from Incidental Music to ‘The Tempest’—shared the same inspiration: Shakespeare’s final stage work. The culminating work, Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony, brewed up a storm of its own.

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