The Princeton University Orchestra is to perform a program including Benjamin Britten’s cantata Phaedra, featuring mezzo-soprano Barbara Rearick.
Phaedra is Britten’s last vocal work. Professor of music Wendy Heller is set to offer pre-performance remarks about Phaedra, which is presented as part of the campus-wide initiative “Myth in Transformation: The Phaedra Project.”
The program also includes works by Max Bruch, Maurice Ravel and Mozart.
Princeton sophomore Jessie Chen is set to will join the orchestra as soloist for Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra and junior Nicholas Stead is set to perform Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Both Chen and Stead are winners of the Orchestra’s annual Concerto Competition.
The program will conclude with one of Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 in D Major “Prague.”
The Princeton University Orchestra is made up of Princeton undergraduate and graduate student musicians. Now in its 118th year, the orchestra plays a wide range of works by composers from the Classical period up through freshly composed works by Princeton composers.
Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. March 7 and 8 at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.
Tickets are $15 for general admission and $5 for students.
More information is online at princeton.edu/utickets.
