New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Announces Upcoming Season: Patti LuPone, Marvin Hamlisch & More

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) today announced its programs for the 2012-13 concert season, conductor Jacques Lacombe's third year as the Orchestra's Music Director.

The season, which opens September 28, exemplifies the high artistic standards and thoughtful programming that have made the NJSO - described by The Wall Street Journal as "a vital, artistically significant music organization" - one of the region's cultural treasures.

The season features 16 weeks of traditional classical programs, four pops programs in both Newark and New Brunswick and three family concerts, as well as several special concerts. The September 28 Opening Night Celebration, featuring pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, explores Jazz Age American music including Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Ellington's Harlem.

The program also features New Jersey native John Harbison's Remembering Gatsby: Foxtrot for Orchestra as part of the New Jersey Roots Project. A key thread through the season. Lacombe says, is the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Wagner's birth. The Orchestra performs music from Wagner's Tristan und lsolde, Die Meistersinger von Allirnberg and Parsifal. The season also features music by composers who were influenced by or reacted to Wagner, including Stravinsky, Debussy, Sibelius, Schoenberg and Chausson. 

In addition to highlighting several of the Orchestra’s own musicians, the season will feature an outstanding international roster  of guest artists including Sarah Chang, Susanna Mälkki, Susanne Mentzer, Eugene Tzigane, Marvin Hamlisch and Patti LuPone.

The NJSO presents classical subscription programming at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, the State Theatre in New Brunswick, Richardson Auditorium in Princeton, Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown, Patriots Theater  at the War Memorial in Trenton, Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank and bergenPAC in Englewood

For more information, visit http://www.njsymphony.org/.