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Princeton University Concerts:
Jonathan Biss, Piano / Mitsuko Uchida, Piano
“Jonathan and I share the deep conviction that you can never really know all there is to know about great music,” remarks Mitsuko Uchida, one of the world’s most revered Schubert interpreters, “and that it’s worth spending your whole life trying to know a little more.” Perhaps that is one of the many reasons that we cannot get enough of these two beloved pianists, both of whom have made multiple appearances on our series. Now making their PUC debut as a duo in a rare joint recital, the legendary pair invites us to try to know a little more about Schubert with a program singularly focused on this composer, whose many works for piano four-hands were written for friends gathered at evening salons. And so we will have our own “Schubertiade,” as these events came to be known, in the ultimate realization of PUC’s tagline: “the world’s most celebrated musicians among friends.”
Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 7:30 PM
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Lecture and Masterclass: Slavonic plainchant and 17th century early Russian polyphony
Evgeny Skurat is a professional singer, conductor, musicologist, and teacher. He is the director of the ancient Russian music ensemble “Chronos”, with whom he recorded an anthology of ancient Russian polyphonic music (10 CDs, the repertoire of which was performed and recorded for the first time). He was a soloist of the ensembles “Sirin”, “Drevnerusskiy Raspev” and is currently a soloist with the Labyrinthus ensemble. Focusing on musical repertoire from the Middle Ages to the present, Evgeny was the first performer of many works by the troubadours, in addition to organums and conducti of the Notre Dame school.
Thursday, April 4, 2024, 1:30 PM
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Annual Meeting for the Society of Seventeenth-Century Music
The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) will hold its annual meeting this spring at the Princeton University, April 4-7, 2024. Hosted by the Department of Music, with the support of the Program in Human Values, the Council of the Humanities, the Program in Italian Studies, the Department of Art and Archaeology, the Department of French and Italian, and the Department of Comparative Literature, the conference will feature three days of scholarly presentations, a dance workshop, lightening talks for graduate students, and two concerts, including excerpts from Wendy Heller’s new critical edition (Bärenreiter) Cavalli’s Veremonda l’amazzone di Aragona (1652), featuring guest countertenor Lawrence Zazzo, musicians and singers from Early Music Princeton, conducted by Michael Pratt; and a concert by the Princeton University Chamber Choir (“Music in Memoriam: Singing about Death in Moscow, Salzburg, Dresden, Constantinople, and London”), presented by the Princeton University Chamber Choir, conducted by Gabriel Crouch, with the Washington Cornet and xSackbut Ensemble, directed by Michael Holmes.
Thursday, April 4, 2024, 6 PM - Sunday, April 7, 2024, 11 AM
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Introducing Francesco Cavalli's Veremonda, I'amazzone di Aragona
6:00-6:30 PM: Panel discussion- Ottomans, Venetians, and the Politics of Cavalli’s Veremonda
6:30-7:30 PM: Concert- An Evening with Veremonda
Thursday, April 4, 2024, 6 PM
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Pamela Z Meets The Animal Song Collective
Pamela Z performs “Syrinx” for voice and electronics, along with other works.
A concert by The Animal Song Collective, a Humanities Council Magic Project
Friday, April 5, 2024, 4:30 PM
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Musicology Colloquium: Robert Zatorre
From Perception to Pleasure: The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love It
Robert Zatorre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
Friday, April 5, 2024, 4:30 PM
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Princeton University Chamber Choir: Music in Memoriam
Princeton University Chamber Choir in association with the SSCM Conference presents Music in Memoriam: Singing about Death in Moscow, Salzburg, Dresden, Constantinople, and London. Featuring the Washington Cornett and Sackbutt ensemble, directed by Gabriel Crouch & Michael McCormick
Friday, April 5, 2024, 8 PM
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Trenton Arts at Princeton:
Saturday Morning Arts Fifth Anniversary Showcase
This year, Saturday Morning Arts turns five! Join us for a joyous celebration of our Trenton and Princeton University students, featuring performances by Trenton Youth Dancers, Orchestra, Singers, and Theater. The event will conclude with a collaborative performance involving all four groups—a historic first for SMArts.
Saturday, April 6, 2024, 4 PM
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Opus x Penn Sforza
As part of its tenth anniversary season, Opus, Princeton’s undergraduate-run chamber music collective, presents a collaborative concert with Penn Sforza, a newly formed club at the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to chamber music. The program will include works from the classical canon and selections from film scores.
Sunday, April 7, 2024, 3 PM
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Princeton University Concerts:
Golda Schultz Soprano / Jonathan Ware, Piano
South African soprano Golda Schultz has been gracing the stage of the world’s greatest opera houses—from the Metropolitan Opera to the Vienna State Opera. Equally at home in leading operatic roles as she is as a soloist with the world’s foremost orchestras and in the most venerated recital halls, she has quickly become a leading voice in a new generation of star singers. For her Princeton University Concerts debut, she brings the extraordinary warmth of her voice to a program hailed as “a love-letter to women in music” exploring themes of love, nature, folklore and belief from a distinctly female perspective.
Monday, April 8, 2024, 7:30 PM
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Princeton University Concerts:
A "Imagine Me Gone" by Adam Haslett, "Uniquiet by Jonathan Biss Book Club
In advance of Princeton University Concerts’ “Healing with Music” event Anxiety, Depression, and Music with pianist Jonathan Biss and writer Adam Haslett, begin the exploration with Biss’ audio book Unquiet: My Life with Beethoven into Haslett’s bestselling novel Imagine Me Gone through this book club presented in partnership with the Princeton Public Library.
Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds when, in an act of love and faith, Margaret decides to marry John despite his crippling depression.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 10:30 AM
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Ungroomed Renaissance: Josquin's Missa L'ami Baudichon; Songs and Motets
What are we supposed to make of a Renaissance mass whose audible engine is a lewd song? Cut Circle explores this question through the astonishingly ungroomed Missa L’ami Baudichon. The mass anchors a wide-ranging program of sacred and secular music by Josquin des Prez (1450–1521).
Friday, April 12, 2024, 5 PM
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Senior Certificate Recital
Amelia Kauffmann ’24 (Voice) performs a senior recital.
Friday, April 12, 2024, 8 PM
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Jazz Festival 2024
Jazz at Princeton presents the 2024 Princeton University Jazz Festival in a one-day event Saturday, April 13. Featured performances include Small Group X, Small Group A, and many special guests, leading up to the headlining event with the Creative Large Ensemble.
Saturday, April 13, 2024, 1 PM
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Princeton University Wind Ensemble Inaugural Concert
During their inaugural concert on April 14th, the Princeton University Wind Ensemble, Princeton University's only concert band, will present works from both the traditional wind band canon and contemporary composers alike, including a special performance by the PUWE Chamber Brass Ensemble.
Sunday, April 14, 2024, 2 PM
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Senior Certificate Recital
Soonyoung Kwon ’24 (Violin) performs a senior recital.
Sunday, April 14, 2024, 7 PM
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Princeton Sound Kitchen presents Generals Concert
Princeton University second-year graduate student composers, in partial fulfillment of the General Examination, create new works in response to the work of other, established artists. Various artists and ensembles perform the new works. New works by Ellie Cherry, kennedy taylor dixon, Bobby Ge, Travis Laplante, and Nathan Schram.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 8 PM
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Musicology Colloquium:
Charles Youmans
“Mahler’s Convalescence: A ‘God-Seeker’ Confronts the Mature Nietzsche”
Charles Youmans- Penn State University
This lecture reconsiders Mahler’s evolving reception of Nietzsche, focusing on the long-term impact of the philosopher’s break with Wagner.
Friday, April 19, 2024, 4:30 PM
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The Walter L. Nollner Memorial Concert Dream of Gerontius
The Princeton University Orchestra and Glee Club perform Edward Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, featuring soloists Anthony Dean Griffey, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen ’15, and Andrew Foster Williams.
Friday, April 19, 2024, 7:30 PM and
Saturday, April 20, 2024, 7:30 PM
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Senior Certificate Recital
Gabriel Chalick ’24 (Jazz Trumpet) performs a senior recital.
Saturday, April 20, 2024, 2 PM
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