|
Raritan River Music Festival, winner of the National Award for Adventurous Programming from ASCAP/Chamber Music America, will present a series of four concerts throughout the month of May. All details about performers and composers, online streaming, musician videos, and other festival details can be found at the web site, www.RaritanRiverMusic.org .
Laura Oltman, Co-Founding Artistic Director, explains, “This season Raritan River Music celebrates the 250th anniversary of the founding of our nation. Many of our festival venues pre-date the American Revolution. The congregations of our churches were founded by people who were among the first European settlers in North America.
So far from anything they had ever known, they fashioned a government and a culture separate from their origins, whose modern global appeal surely derives from the multiplicity of those who created it. A core mission of Raritan River Music is to embrace the creation and performance of new music from the New World and to build a recorded archive of these musical compositions – music that is as original, dynamic, and aspirational as our nation.”
Michael Newman, the other Founding Director of Raritan River Music adds, “As we approach the 250th Anniversary of American Independence, along with New Jersey’s history as one of the founding thirteen colonies, we are reminded of the vast artistic creativity of the diverse cultures in the US, one of the genuinely revolutionary cornerstones of our society, reflected in our country’s motto e pluribus unum – out of many, one.”
| 
