NJSO Presents Liszt The Pianist with André Laplante

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) and Music Director Jacques Lacombe celebrate the 200th anniversary of Liszt's birth with a program featuring both of the composer's piano concertos, along with his moving tone poem Les Préludes. The performance also includes Wagner's Siegfried Idyll.
Pianist André Laplante joins the Orchestra as soloist.

"Liszt was one of the first superstar performers-both as a concert pianist and a conductor, and of course as a composer," Lacombe says. "I wanted to present his two piano concertos on the same program; it's rare that you hear them together, so by itself it's an exciting idea. I also wanted to present Liszt as a composer of orchestral music, since he was such an important composer of program music and tone poems. To perform these concerts on almost the exact date of his birthday (October 22, 1811) is truly special."

Performances take place on Thursday, October 27, (1:30 p.m.) and Sunday, October 30, (3 p.m.) at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark; Friday, October 28, (8 p.m.) at the Richardson Auditorium in Princeton and Saturday, October 29, (8 p.m.) at the State Theatre in New Brunswick. Classical Conversations begin one hour before the performances on October 28-30 and are free to ticketholders.

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