Music director Rossen Milanov conducts at a Princeton Symphony Orchestra performance at Richardson Auditorium. (Photo by John O’Boyle).
Princeton Symphony Orchestra is set to premiere local composer Julian Grant’s Dances in the Dark at a Classical Series Concert called Nights and Dreams.
The program also features guest artists Dominic Armstrong and Eric Ruske performing a work by Benjamin Britten accompanied by PSO. Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique completes the program.
Julian Grant created his latest work at the behest of PSO music director Rossen Milanov, who wanted something evocative of the concert title and this season’s theme of nights and dreams.
The new work runs continuously through four parts, three of which possess rhythms of ballroom dance forms including a waltz, rumba, and conga.
Grant and Rossen are set to discuss the piece during Behind the Music 4:30 p.m. March 28 at the Arts Council of Princeton.
Dominic Armstrong, tenor, and Eric Ruske, French horn, are set to play Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings. Britten’s work is a serenade based on a selection of poems by English authors with themes of evening, night, and the approach of sleep.
Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique rounds out the program. This is the first symphony PSO is set to perform this season, Symphonie fantastique is considered one of the defining works of the Romantic Movement.
In anticipation of the concert, retired New York University professor Jerrold Seigle is set to present Paris of Berlioz, 1830: Revolution, Romanticism, and the Artist as Symbol 7 p.m. March 19 at Princeton Public Library.
Night and Dreams is this year’s Edward T. Cone Concert. The annual concert is a tribute to PSO benefactor and Princeton arts supporter Edward T. Cone, who was an author and music professor at Princeton University.
The performance is scheduled for 4 p.m. March 30 at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. A pre-concert talk is set for 3 p.m.
Tickets prices range from $75 to $25.
PSO is set to present the same program in a preview performance 8 p.m. March 29 in Mildred and Ernest E. Mayo Hall at The College of New Jersey.
More information is online at princetonsymphony.org.
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