NJSO to Present 'Vistas and Landscapes' Program ft. Copland and Dvorak

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents a program of works inspired by vistas and landscapes from America to Bohemia, including music by Copland, Dvorák and Popper, February 25-28 in Englewood and Newark. NJSO Associate Principal Cello Stephen Fang performs Dvo?ák's Silent Woodsand Popper's Hungarian Rhapsody. Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts the program, which also includes Copland'sAppalachian Spring and Dvorak's "New World" Symphony.

Performances take place on Thursday, February 25, at 7:30 pm at bergenPAC in Englewood and Saturday, February 27, at 8 pm and Sunday, February 28, at 3 pm at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.

"Being a featured soloist with the NJSO is quite literally the realization of a lifelong dream for me," Fang says. "I grew up in New Jersey watching this orchestra, I came close to performing a solo with the NJSO when I was in high-school (placing second in an NJSO concerto competition) and I've been a member of the NJSO for eight wonderful seasons. The fact that I'm soloing with my orchestra, my colleagues, makes these performances so much more meaningful. Silent Woods is a beautiful tone poem, and this Hungarian Rhapsody by one of Dvo?ák's contemporaries, David Popper, is a virtuosic piece."

Music Director Jacques Lacombe says: "Steve Fang brings such a positive energy to the Orchestra. He's fun to watch-he is a great musician and is so expressive when he plays. Pairing the two works he'll perform with Copland's Appalachian Spring and Dvo?ák's 'New World' Symphony creates a rhapsodic program [combining] Czech, Hungarian and American influences."

NJSO Accents include #CelloYou-an immersive daylong experience for amateur cellists that culminates in a Prelude Performance-and a post-concert College Night on February 27, as well as a pre-concert "Vistas and Landscapes" tour of the Newark Museum's American Art Collection and collection of 19th-century landscapes with curator Trisha Bloom and a post-concert artist talkback with Fang on February 28. #CelloYou and the Newark Museum tour require additional charge and advance registration; details are available atwww.njsymphony.org/celloyou and www.njsymphony.org/museumtour, respectively.

The Orchestra will accept non-perishable food donations at all performances as part of its annual food drive, which will benefit food banks across New Jersey.

TICKETS

Tickets start at $20 and are available for purchase online at www.njsymphony.org or by phone at 1.800.ALLEGRO (255.3476).

THE PROGRAM

Vistas and Landscapes: Copland and Dvo?ák

Thursday, February 25, at 7:30 pm | bergenPAC in Englewood

Saturday, February 27, at 8 pm | NJPAC in Newark

Sunday, February 28, at 3 pm | NJPAC in Newark

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor

Stephen Fang, cello

DVORÁK Silent Woods

POPPER Hungarian Rhapsody

COPLAND Appalachian Spring

DVORÁK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"

The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey generously sponsors the February 25 performance.

Full program information is available at www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/vistas-landscapes-copland-dvorak.

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