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the conductorJED GAYLIN throughout the region, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony

has forged residencies with area colleges, numerous towns, music festivals such as Cape May, and even casinos. Atlantic City’s Borgata hosts the Symphony for an all-classical summer series, begun in 2013. In 2012, Jed Gaylin was named Artist in Residence at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. This position is a part of an innovative model in which Bay-Atlantic Symphony is integrated into the music curriculum. Also in 2012, he was named Music Director of the Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Mr. Gaylin served as the Director of Orchestras at the International Music Festival and Summer Course of Cervera (Spain) and was a regular conductor at Opera Vivente in Baltimore. His numerous guest appearances include St. Petersburg State Symphony, National Film and Radio Philharmonic (Beijing, China), Shanghai Conservatory Orchestra, Bucharest Radio Orchestra, Academia del Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain), Eastman School Music Broadband Ensemble, among many others. He has performed with such soloists as Hilary Hahn, Yuja Wang, Eugenia Zukerman, Shai Wosner, and Stefan Jackiw.

Jed Gaylin’s television and radio broadcasts include National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, Voice of America, Bucharest Radio Orchestra, and the National Radio and Film Philharmonic (Beijing). He has been aired in the US on WWFM in New Jersey and WYPR in Baltimore.

Mr. Gaylin earned both a Bachelor of Music in piano and a Master of Music in conducting at the Oberlin Conservatory, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in conducting at the Peabody Conservatory. He attended the Aspen Music Festival as a Conducting Fellow. Among other honors, he has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and the Presser Music Award. His conducting teachers have included Frederik Prausnitz, Leonard Slatkin, Jahja Ling, Murry Sidlin, Paul Vermel, and Michel Singher, and, for piano, Lydia Frumkin.

Find out more about Jed Gaylin at jedgaylin.com.

“Generous” is the word listeners and performers use time and again to describe conductor Jed Gaylin’s approach to the orchestra, the score, and the audience. His joyful abandon and probing intellect together create powerful programs, compelling interpretations, and evenings that are fresh and exuberant. George Szell said, “In music one must think with the heart and feel with the mind,” a maxim Jed Gaylin embodies abundantly and passionately.

Orchestra members throughout the world, soloists, and opera singers often recount how Jed Gaylin’s rehearsals and performances elicit their very best, not only individually but collectively. He revels in making connections not only within a piece, but also between seemingly disparate and wide-ranging works to sculpt a concert of surprising, captivating juxtapositions. His dedication to exploring the music’s fullest potential in a collaborative spirit reaches beyond the stage to draw the audience into the creative act. Listeners feel far more than just welcomed by words from the podium—they feel engaged as participants in a wordless musical conversation that is spontaneous, big-hearted, and eloquent.

As Music Director, Jed Gaylin leads the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, and Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra with the same creative depth and an open spirit that he brings to the podium. The Bay-Atlantic Symphony is now not only consistently praised for its astonishing level of artistry and precision, it is also viewed throughout New Jersey as a model for how professional orchestras can become a vital focus and source of identity in their communities. As a sought-after creative partner

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From the President | III

Tonight’s Performance | V

Artist Biographies | VI

Program Notes | IX

Orchestra Personnel | XI

Annual Fund | XIII

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Dear Friends,

The brand new year brings one of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony most intriguing concerts. Maestro Jed Gaylin and the Bay-Atlantic Symphony Chamber Orchestra partners with the tremendously talented Choral Arts of Southern New Jersey, under the direction of Jack Hill, for a concert of stunningly beautiful choral pieces. You might know Vivaldi’s “Gloria,” an amazing work. You might be less familiar with “Lux Aeterna,” written by Morten Lauridsen and “Dark Soul of the Night,” written by Ola Gjeilo.

Both Mr. Lauridsen and Mr. Gjeilo are both towering figures in the contemporary choral world. Their music has been played and sung all around the world by top orchestras and choral groups. We are very pleased to be able to bring you their beautiful music.

The Symphony is honored that both composers are attending today’s concert. They will be available to talk to you during intermission and the concert’s end in the lobby. Please welcome them to South Jersey and tell them how much you enjoyed their work.

BAS has begun our important new educational project in association with the Atlantic City system and Stockton College. Our professional musicians and Stockton’s college-student mentors train inner-city music students in learning basic and advanced string technique. We are now adding two new woodwinds classes in Sovereign Avenue School and at the Atlantic City High School. This program is the start of what the Symphony hopes will be an extensive music education program reaching throughout the region. Thank you so much to Senator and Mrs. Gormley’s Friends of Music and the Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation for their generous contribution allowing the Symphony to begin this essential work.

If you don’t have tickets for our March and May concerts, buy them today. March brings the extraordinary New Jersey pianist Terrence Wilson who will be performing Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1. The concert also features a premiere piece from Russell Steinberg and Schumann’s Symphony No. 3.

In May we welcome back the wonderful violinist Ryu Goto performing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.

And thanks so much for Woodruff Energy for its great sponsorship which allows us to keep our prices affordable, allowing us to bring our music to more and more people.

The board and staff of the Symphony wish our great friends and supporters a happy and healthy NEW YEAR.

Sincerely,Robert WattersPresident, Bay-Atlantic Symphony

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Please take a moment and silence all phones, watches, and pagers. Thank you.

Jed Gaylin, Conductor

Morten Lauridsen Sure on This Shining Night (b. 1943) Morten Lauridsen, piano

Morten Lauridsen Lux Aeterna 1. Introitus 2. In Te, Domine, speravi 3. O nata lux 4. Veni, sancte spiritus 5. Agnus Dei

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Ola Gjeilo Dark Night of the Soul (b. 1978) Ola Gjeilo, piano

Antonio Vivaldi Gloria, in d, r.589 (1678-1741) 1. Gloria in excelsis 2. Et in terra pax 3. Laudamus te 4. Gratias agimus tibi 5. Propter magnam gloriam 6. Domine Deus 7. Domine fili unigenite 8. Domine Deus, agnus Dei 9. Qui tollis 10. Qui sedes ad dexteram 11. Quoniam tu solus sanctus 12. Cum sancto spiritu

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The music of morten Lauridsen occupies a permanent place in the standard vocal repertoire of the Twenty-First Century. His eight vocal cycles (Lux Aeterna, Les Chansons des Roses, Madrigali: Six ‘FireSongs’ on

Italian Renaissance Poems, A Winter Come, Cuatro Canciones, A Backyard Universe, Nocturnes and Mid-Winter Songs on Poems by Robert Graves), instrumental works, art songs and series of motets (including O Magnum Mysterium) are performed throughout the world and have been recorded on over two hundred CDs, including several that received Grammy nominations.

Mr. Lauridsen (b. 1943) served as Composer-in-Residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1995-2001 and is currently Distinguished Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. An award-winning documentary by Michael Stillwater, Shining Night – A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen, was released in 2012 (songwithoutborders.net).

In 2006, Morten Lauridsen was named an “American Choral Master” by the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2007 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the highest artistic award in the United States, by the President in a White House ceremony “for his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power, and spiritual depth.”

ola Gjeilo (pronounced Yay-lo) was born in Norway in 1978, and moved to the United States in 2001 to begin his composition studies at the Juilliard School in New York City. Previous studies were at the

Norwegian Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music in London. Ola’s concert works are performed all over the world, and his debut recording as a pianist-composer, the lyrical crossover album Stone Rose, was

followed by its 2012 sequel, Piano Improvisations. Many of Ola’s choral works are featured on Phoenix Chorale’s bestselling Northern Lights album, which is devoted entirely to his music for choir. This album was named Best Classical Album of the Year by iTunes in 2012, and was the top-selling album for the prestigious Chandos Records in the USA for 2012. A full-time concert music composer, Ola is also very interested in film, and his music often draws inspiration from movies and cinematic music. He currently lives in New York City with his wife Laura.

Ola’s choral works are published by Walton Music, wind band works by Boosey & Hawkes, and piano pieces by Edition Peters. For more information, please visit olagjeilo.com or find Ola on Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, and at his YouTube channel.

Coming together in the summer months of 2011, choral arts of southern new Jersey began as a partnership between veteran choral conductor Jack Hill and prolific audio engineer Brad Zabelski. Having blossomed into an opportunity of expression for dozens of regional participants over the past four years, the choir currently consists of approximately 40 auditioned voices. With a clear focus on SATB choral music of the 20th/21st Centuries, the choir has presented works by such notable contemporary composers as Ola Gjeilo, Gwyneth Walker, Daniel Gawthrop, Craig Hella Johnson, Morten Lauridsen, and more. Concerts have been held in area churches as well as performing arts venues such as Stockton College, Cumberland County College, The Historic Strand Theater of Lakewood, and even a special event at Carnegie Hall!

While a portion of the repertoire is a cappella, most numbers are accompanied by piano and are augmented by the fine musicianship of accompanist Diana Gable. This prestigious ensemble meets weekly throughout the fall & spring seasons with several concerts during each season. Under the direction of Maestro Hill, this choir performs at the highest standard. While engaging the community through

artist biographies

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enriching and innovative programming, Choral Arts of Southern New Jersey seeks to elevate the cultural offering of our region.

Throughout his professional career, Jack Hill has gained a reputation as a pre-eminent choral conductor. During his years as Choral Director at Clearview Regional High School, he built a program, which

achieved international recognition. His Vocal Ensemble was invited to sing for both National and Divisional ACDA Conventions where they represented the best of high school choral music. They were invited to perform for the Inaugural Choral Festival by the management of Carnegie Hall where they performed the Mozart Requiem with the St Luke’s Orchestra under the baton of Craig Jessop. Since his retirement in 2009 from public school teaching, Mr. Hill continues to serve as Minister of Music at The Presbyterian Church at Woodbury, in Woodbury, New Jersey where he directs the church’s three choirs and plays the organ. He is an active recitalist and also maintains a voice and piano studio.

Mr. Hill’s formal training was at Westminster Choir College in Princeton New Jersey where he received his Bachelor of Music degree in Church Music and his Master of Music Degree in Organ Performance. During this time he studied organ with Joan Lippincott and conducting with Joseph Flummerfelt. Subsequent to his college training, Mr. Hill had the privilege of studying with Robert Shaw. Mr. Hill is also Repertoire and Standards Chair for the Eastern Division American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and President of New Jersey ACDA. As professor at Rowan University, he conducts the Women’s Choir and teaches in both the music and theatre departments.

Lauren athey-Janka, soprano, is a professional singer and prominent voice teacher and is honored to serve on the voice faculty at Rowan University. Recently, Lauren had the honor of writing a book

with Dr. Christopher Arneson, “Literature for Teaching: A Guide for Teaching Solo Vocal Repertoire from a Developmental Perspective”. The book was published by Inside View Press, Inc. in June 2014 and released at the July 2014 National NATS convention in Boston, MA with great success. Lauren also serves on the voice faculty at West Chester University. Lauren has studied Voice Science, Voice Pedagogy, Voice Disorders and speech with leading professionals in speech pathology and vocal pedagogy. This summer, she attended Westminster Choir College’s Voice Pedagogy Institute. In 2013, Lauren won an Enrichment Grant with Music Teachers National Association Foundation Fund. She has taken advanced coursework at Temple University and has Master of Music degrees in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College, where she studied with Margaret Cusack, and a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Boston University, where she studied with Penelope Bitzas. Today, she continues her vocal studies with Dr. Christopher Arneson and Gerald Martin Moore.

Lauren was recently hailed as possessing a “stunning voice with impeccable technique” with “talent of the highest caliber”. Lauren was the 2014 winner of the Milton Cross Young Artist Program. Abroad, Lauren has performed recitals in Italy, Albania and Romania.

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sharon Byrne’s many oratorio performances as a soloist include Bach’s Magnificat, Mass in B-Minor, and St. John Passion, Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, as well as Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah,

Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem and Vivaldi’s Gloria. Her theatrical roles include Katisha in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado and Mrs. Ott in Floyd’s Susannah. In 2012 Sharon won the top honor, the Milton Cross Young Artist Award through the Continuo Arts Foundation’s Milton Cross Young Artists Vocal Competition. She is currently studying voice with Dr. Christopher Arneson of Westminster Choir College and coaches with Ms. Pamela Gilmore of Rutgers University.

Sharon earned her Master of Music Education

degree from Shenandoah Conservatory. While studying for her undergraduate degree at Westminster Choir College, she sang with the Westminster Symphonic Choir and toured Europe and the Far East with the critically acclaimed Westminster Choir and under the direction of Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt. She has the honor of singing with The Crossing, a choir directed by Donald Nally, that is dedicated to performing new music. In 2013, Sharon sang with The Crossing for their Carnegie Hall debut and in an encore for two performances with The Rolling Stones.

Sharon teaches vocal music full time to students in grades 6-12 at a small private school in NJ, sings every Sunday at her church and is very grateful to come home each evening to her wonderful husband and beautiful baby daughter.

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program notessinging in the Lightby Paul Mack SomersBay-Atlantic Symphony Director of Adult Education

Morton Lauridsen is a person who shares his time between the University of Southern California and a remote island in Puget Sound in the far northwest corner of the the lower forty-eight. This combination is a fitting metaphor for his music. While rooted in the mystic relationships of light and earth one finds in the Pacific northwest, his music is well made at an academic level, which places him as a revered professor of composition at one of the top music schools in the nation, right in the midst of urban Los Angeles.

Lauridsen is often associated with a confluence of composers around the world who in the late 20th century and into our own time found themselves eschewing the disheartening rigors of post-Webernism in favor of a very personal inner expression. One thinks of Arvo Pärt, who often seems to be about bell peels, or Gorecki’s music growing out of the earth, or Tavener’s layers of space and air, all of them with a spiritual impetus which was coeval with the fall of the atheism built into monolithic communism.

Lauridsen’s music flows out of deep roots in European Renaissance art, in which such artists as Rembrandt, Grünewald, and Velasquez had a reverence for light and its uses. Musically, Lauridsen often reaches back to composers of the same period and later who knew how to use close dissonance (major and minor seconds) to such elevated, often sweetly light-filled, effect: William Byrd and Dietrich Buxtehude, though separated in time and geography, come immediately to mind.

In both Sure on This Shining Night and the five movements of Lux Æterna the composer often creates a harmonic bed of shimmering dissonances, some resolved and some not, out of and upon which motives and melodies emerge and sink. It could be a musical picture inspired by glistening Puget Sound water, but beyond that it is most importantly

a metaphor for the light within the human soul. It is no wonder that these works, and others by Lauridsen, are among the elite list of regularly performed major choral works by contemporary Americans.

Lux Æterna, Lauridsen’s setting of the final prayer of the Requiem Mass, is often performed with organ accompaniment. On this occasion it is supported by a chamber orchestra, which gives the piece a very different feel than when it uses “the monster that never breathes”, as the organ has been called with jesting accuracy.

Ola Gjeilo is a Norwegian composer, now living in New York City, who studied with Wolfgang Plagge (b. 1960), one of, if not the, finest composer of that previous generation in Norway. Gjeilo is certainly by now considered to be among that rank. He has also studied with many teachers in various parts of Europe and America.

Dark Night of the Soul, like the Lauridsen works but with a different language, evokes the world of the spirit within each person. Gjeilo dips into the minimalist genre with its repetitive harmonic and rhythmic patterns, as if representing the jangling exterior world. Then long-limbed lines emerge and soar above and within the rhythms. A central section is darker and not at all minimalist in texture. This sets up a return of the original music. But now it has become a picture of two different sound worlds amicably uniting. In spite of the darkness of the title and text, the ultimate picture is of two forms of light coming together. It is the first composed of two pieces for string quartet, piano, and chorus. The second, written in response to the first, has the title Luminous Night of the Soul.

Centuries before Gjeilo, Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria often uses the same idea of fast repeated rhythmic and harmonic patterns upon which more sustained choral and solo singing rests. Doubtless composed for performance by the legendary singers of Venice’s Pio Ospedale della Pietà, it is no surprise that on occasion he uses antiphonal effects, which had been perfected in that city by Giovanni Gabrieli over a century earlier.

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program notesHe also uses some of the musical symbols and picture-painting so beloved of baroque period composers. Indeed, the work begins with leaping melodic octaves which symbolize God the Father, while the interjections in between are two instruments thirds apart, which refer to the second and third persons of the Holy Trinity — the Son and the Holy Spirit. The meter is in two beats per measure, and thus emphasizes the text’s origin in the Lukean story of the birth of Jesus, the second person of the trinity.

Later, in the soprano soloist’s “Domine Deus” (Lord God), Vivaldi subtly uses the opening “God the Father” octaves in the bass line. But here it is in a pastoral mood emphasized by the oboe, often used to represent shepherds.

A fine example of a repeated accompaniment pattern with long sustained choral harmonies is the chorus “Et in terra pax”. Here strong dissonances rest within their tensions before resolving. Without a doubt the most rhythmically driven chorus is “Domine, Fili unigenite”. It is again an example of a busy rhythm in the orchestra and chorus, this time a fast “dah-di, dah-di” pattern, with sustained choral parts often floating above. And yet another example of this technique is in the contralto’s slower aria “Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris”. Again there is an insistent accompaniment with a long-lined vocal solo resting upon it.

The clearest example of Venetian antiphonal effects is in the duet “Laudamus te”. The two

sopranos imitate each other back and forth, often like echoes. A subsequent antiphonal movement is the “Domine Deus, Agnus Dei” in which the contralto and obligato violoncello are one “chorus”, as it were, while the actual chorus acts as an antiphonal response.

There are some who wonder at J. S. Bach’s fascination with Vivaldi’s music, since Bach is far more contrapuntally complex than Vivaldi. But the answer is not in that kind of complexity; rather, it is found in Vivaldi’s extraordinary harmonic progressions. The great power of the “Qui tollis peccata mundi” chorus is found in the unexpected harmonies which propel the monumental blocked chord texture.

The brief chorus “Quoniam tu solus sanctus” repeats the opening accompaniment pattern of the “Glory to God” chorus. Yet Vivaldi solves the issue of the text’s quite different words by actually suggesting ever so briefly — and in wonderfully disconcerting manner — a three-beat meter, while actually staying with two beats.

For the final chorus, “Cum Sancto Spiritu”, Vivaldi creates a well worked out and exciting double fugue. It is in a different world when compared to some of his more simple-minded concertos, in which, as a contemporaneous composer observed, Vivaldi seems to give the soloist mere accompaniment figures to noodle with. Here the composer is at the top of his ability, crowning this baroque favorite with a contrapuntal gem.

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VioLin iRuotao Mao, concertmasterNancy Jan,

associate concertmaster

VioLin ii Genaro Medina, principalNina Vieru, assistant

VioLa Ana Tsinadze, principalRenee Steffy-Warnick,

assistant

ceLLo Elizabeth Mendoza,

principalNancy Stokking, assistant

Bass Michael Egan, principalLesa Hornaday-Kurtz,

assistant

fLuteKimberly Reighley,

principal

oBoe Terence Belzer, principal

cLarinet Christopher Di Santo,

principal

Bassoon Ping Liang, principal

Horn Jonathan Clark, principalAmy Boyd

trumPet Bryan K. Appleby-

Wineberg, principal

tromBone Richard Linn,

bass trombone

KeyBoard Donna Battista, principal

soPrano Jennifer Colna Lauren DiBona Catherine FicheraTanya Harmer Zabrielle HollowayLaura Inman Sarah KnappMelissa Lugo Kirstin Powell Ashley Reuter Sandy Skinner

aLto Stephanie Berger Andrea Boucher

Angelo CapobiancoCristin Charlton-IntrocasoLori Cummines-HuckBrittany Griffith Amanda Hill Jennifer Kane Alexa KowalskiPaula Matos Jelisa Ransom Julia Rhubart

tenor Sean Clancy Peter “Tad” LeVan Steve Merdian Vince Pagliaro

Dan Steward Duane Trowbridge River Wagner Travis Washington

BassAndrew Bowling Michael Doheny Larry Little Romel McInnis Chris McLaughlin John O’Leary Willie ReuterRyan Roche Anthony Sinigaglio Richard Tinsley

January 24 & 25, 2015with special guests choral arts of southern new Jersey

Jack Hill, artistic directorBrad Zabelski, executive director

orchestra personnel

choral personnel

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2013–2015 annual fund contributorsS Hollis FleischerAudrey FischerLois S. FriedSylvia GabrieliJudith Sternstein GallerHarold GarberJoan C. GravitzEugene GruberSusan HambergJodi G. HandlerJill A. HoffenbergBernice IzesAbram S. KaplanEllen KelleyJames KlinghofferShirley KotzkerShy & Janet KramerRabbi Jonathan KremerSusan B. LangLeo LiebermanMarc LowensteinEd & Bernadette McGintyHarold & Marth Moskowitz

Walter MurphyRosa OjserkisBetty J. PaxsonMichael & Luise PerlmanBeverly PopowichNatalie S. PowellAnita PressB J RabinowitzAnita J. RobinsonJames & MaryAnn RobsonLee & Susan RosemanSelma W. RosenbergRobert & Kimberly SaboDean ScarpaJudith SchlankLeo & Patti SchofferCarol L. SklarR & D SkoleLenore B. SlatkinHoward & Jill SlotoroffJanet B. SnyderBrian Sokalsky, DO

Martin & Bonnie M SpectorDavid & Miriam SpitalnickHerb & Faith SternJudith SussmanRobert E. UhrmannIrene VadersJoyce VilenskyFrancine WalkinsAnita WeissHon. Michael &

Nadine WinkelsteinKirk WisemayerGolda Wood

michele morgen Hogan fund

$2,500-$5,000Lia Purpura and Jed Gaylin

$100-$500Joan & Robert Watters

Chopin & SchumannSaturday, March 21 • 8 pm Sunday, March 22 • 2 pmCumberland County College Stockton State College

Steinberg: Cosmic Dust (premiere)Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Terrence Wilson, pianoSchumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, “Rhenish”

These romantic works by Chopin and Schumann are intimate, lyrical and meltingly gorgeous, with a joy and abandon that lifts them to great heights. In these cases, love is actually requited.

Join Us for our March Concert

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Plant Trees!Plant Trees!

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AkPharma Inc.

Supports the Bay-Atlantic Symphony

AkPharma Inc.PO Box 111

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Maestro, Jed Gaylin

2015 Gus Cilento, md Young People’s Concerts

Inspiring the Youth of South Jersey

Check out our video at: http://bayatlanticsymphony.org/youngpeoplesconcerts/educational-video/

How Music Talks: colors & shapes

Debussy Petite Suite: 2) Cortège, 4) BalletStravinsky Dumbarton Oaks Concerto 1) Tempo giusto, 3) Con motoBeethoven Violin Concerto, 3rd movement

FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015 9:45-10:30 AM 11:15 AM-NoonCumberland County CollegeGuaracini Performing Arts CenterCall (856) 451-1169 for reservations.

TUESDAY, MAY 5, 201510:30-11:15 AMRichard Stockton CollegePerforming Arts CenterCall (609) 652-4786 for reservations.

FREE TICKETS are made possible by generous

donations of our supporters. A limited number of FREE bus

vouchers are available, on a first come,

first served basis.

Call (856) 451-1169 for information.

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WOODRUFF ENERGY KEEPS THE MUSIC PLAYING

With the Bay-Atlantic Symphony

A generous grant from Woodruff Energy has allowed the Bay-Atlantic Symphony to keep its tickets prices affordable through the 2014-15 season: from tonight’s Broadway A-Z -- Abba to Les Miz and all through a great classical season with Beethoven Rimsky-Korsakov and Chopin.

Thanks to Woodruff Energy’s donation, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony will keep ticket prices for the 2014-15 classical music season at $30 for an individual tickets, and only $100 for a season ticket purchase—that’s $25 per seat.

November 1 & 2, 2014. Scheherazade and Beethoven. Scheherazade is one of those works whose sheer beauty and exotic colors keeps audiences entranced, just as the heroine of the 1001 Nights Entertainment kept the Sultan under her spell. And our audiences will also be spell-bound by violinist Stefan Jackiw in contrasting works of sublime simplicity and fiercely virtuosic gypsy fiddling in this program of romance and exotic music.

January 24 & 25, 2015. Vivaldi, Gjeilo and Lauridsen. Our January program always promises something different. We combine our chamber orchestra with stunningly beautiful works of light, Lux Aeterna, and Glory, Gloria. Our good friends, Choral Arts of Southern New Jersey join us for the entire program, which contrasts the lyricism and bounce.

March 21 & 22, 2015. Chopin and Schumann. These works by Chopin and Schumann are two of the most Romantic, intimate, and lyrical works in the repertoire. Meltingly gorgeous, but also with a joy and abandon that lifts them to great heights, this is a program for those whose hearts forever yearn. In these cases, love is actually requited. We are delighted to bring back piano sensation, and New Jersey resident Terrence Wilson.

May 2 & 3, 2015. Beethoven & Stravinksy. This program makes a breath-taking voyage from a new work of gentle expressive lyricism by New Jersey composer Amanda Harberg, to the exquisite perfume of Debussy, and then to the leaner, more etched Stravinsky. In the second half these attributes are amped up with all the drive of middle Beethoven in his all-embracing Violin Concerto. The always surprising and brilliant Ryu Goto, who played Sibelius with us in Avalon, joins us for the first time in our subscription concerts in this odyssey of a concert.

Woodruff Energy, a great supporter of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is the region’s leader in providing total in-home and commercial comfort technology and is dedicated to bringing you new ideas and energy efficiency, with the services and dependability exemplified since 1869.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony performs it’s classical series at:Richard Stockton College (Box office 609-652-9000)Cumberland County College (Box office 856-692-8499)