NEW BRUNSWICK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra

 

Our Next Concert

Saturday, October 13, 2007 ~ 7:30 PM

    Music of great American composers  

"Born in the USA"   

Aaron Copland  ~  Scott Joplin

Copland: 'Quiet City' and 'Hoe-down'
Hovhaness: 'Psalm and Fugue', op. 40a Ives: 'Hymn'
Joplin: 'The Entertainer'
McCarter: 'Opening Ideas' (NJ premiere)

AND MORE

  American Chamber Music with the
New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra
Mark Trautman, conductor
 Tickets $17 / $15 seniors and students.

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Sunday, October 14

Choral Evensong at 6 o'clock
The Choir of Christ Church
Mark Trautman, conductor

Murill: Evening Canticles in E
Joubert: O Lorde, the Maker of all thing
Ayleward: Preces and Responses

The event is free and all are welcome!

Sunday, October 21

Choral Vespers at 6 o'clock
A brief, meditative service of prayer and chant led by Vox Fidelis under the direction of Timothy Smith

Sunday Vespers Series at 6:30
Organist Elizabeth Wong of Epiphany Church, New York City plays the Richards, Fowkes and Company organ.
The program includes:
Walther: Concerto del Sigr. Meck
Bach: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 662
Pasquini: Toccata con Lo Scherzo del Cucco
Buxtehude: Te Dium, BuxWV 218

Both events are free and all are welcome!
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For Further informaion: www.newbrunswickchamberorchestra.org/

The Christ Church Choir and

The New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra

Christ Church,  5 Paterson Street  at Neilson Street

Parking available on Lower Church St. Parking Deck

(Enter through Paterson or Church streets)

Or: Wolfson Deck (enter on Neilson bet. Liberty & Bayard Streets)

Co-sponsored by the Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission

The New Jersey Council on the Arts/Department of State

(a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts)

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SUNDAY, JUNE 3 at 7:30 PM  "Easter through Trinity" Music of Bach, Buxtehude and Mendelssohn Christ Church, 5 Paterson Street (at Neilson Street), New Brunswick. The Christ Church Choir and the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra. The program will include Johann Sebastian Bach's: "Christ lag in Todesbanden," BWV 4--the work is 300 years old this year! This is the 300th anniversary of the death of Dieterich Buxtehude and the 160th anniversary of the death of Felix Mendelssohn. Bach traveled for weeks to study with Buxtehude before his death in 1707, and Mendelssohn was largely responsible for reviving Bach's work in the 1820s. Also on the program Mendelssohn's "Hear My Prayer" as well as other works for choir, orchestra, and organ. Tickets $17/$15 seniors and students. Free parking at the Lower Chruch Street parking deck. (adjecent to the chruch) Co-sponsored by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission, and the New Jersey Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mark Trautman   Artistic Director and Conductor Mark Trautman teaches church music skills and organ improvisation in the organ program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He studied piano at St. Mary's College of Maryland, and earned a bachelor's degree cum laude in organ performance from Towson University in Baltimore and a master's degree in church music with distinction from Westminster Choir College in Princeton. His teachers have included Michael Phelps, Eugene Roan, and Thomas Spacht. He also completed studies as a certificate student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater International Summer Music Academie in Leipzig, Germany, under the direction of Jean-Claude Zehnder. He has performed throughout the Northeast as an accompanist, conductor, and organist in concert and on radio and television. Since 1994, Mr. Trautman has served as Director of Music at Christ Church, New Brunswick, NJ where he conducts the choir and coordinates the award-winning Lunchtime Recital Series. He is also artistic director and conductor of the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra. Other professional commitments include Adjunct Assistant Professor of Church Music at New Brunswick Theological Seminary.

 WEBSITE:   www.newbrunswickchamberorchestra.org/

Celebrating New Jersey

The New Jersey Composers Concert:  Fall 2007

The New Jersey Composers will highlight the orchestral works of award-winning composers including Jay Kawarsky, Pulitzer-Prize winner George Walker, and others.

If the Artistic Innovation component is supported, it will include the premiere of a  commissioned by the orchestra especially for this concert by Westminster Choir College Professor Joel Phillips.

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New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra

"Our Musical Heritage"

The New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra launched its "Our Musical Heritage" series of concerts at the beginning of the 2005-2006 season and features music from the largest cultural and ethnic communities in New Brunswick, including Latino, Jewish, Hungarian, African-American, and Asian.

Each concert in the series is devoted to the exploration of orchestral music from those cultures and more. The orchestra is uniquely positioned to offer this type of exploratory program as the city of New Brunswick’s only chamber orchestra. Each concert has used the forces of the NBCO, as well as featuring individual artists within the orchestra and the talented artists representing the best of central New Jersey.

Concert II:

‘Music of the Jewish Tradition.’ April 30, 2006, Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, New Brunswick  Ben Steinberg: Kol Shabbat; Eilu D’varim  Ernest Bloch: Concerto Grosso No. 1 with Makhelat Anshe Emeth; Barbara Fisherman and Cantor Anna West Ott, sopranos; Chan Ngat Chau, cello

Concert III:

‘Music of the African-American Tradition’ October 14, 2006, Christ Church, New Brunswick             George Theophilus Walker: Lyric for Strings   William Grant Still: Songs of Separation, Summerland  Duke Ellington: Come Sunday  Adolphus Hailstork: As Falling Leaves  J.Weldon Johnson: Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing with Beverly Owens, soprano; Mark Trautman, piano; Jill Crawford, flute; Marjorie Selden, viola; Elaine Christy, harp

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"Music of Hungary" 

Leo Weiner:  Divertimenti Nos. 1 and 2
Béla Bartók:  Romanian Dances
and music by Franz Lehar and Zoltán Kodály

Hungarian American Athletic Club
233 Somerset Street, New Brunswick

Co-sponsored by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission, and the New Jersey Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

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