CONCERTS:  November | January | March | May and our 25th Anniversary Concert | Pre/Post Concert Activities

As we enter a mile-marker year, we invite you to explore a cornucopia of terrific music, great soloists, and the artistry of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony! 

Our subscription series begins in November with Romanticism writ large.  The program, Lyric and Epic shows two very differing facets to this movement.  In the intimacy of Schumann’s Cello Concerto, we showcase the lyricism and poetry of young Russian cellist Christophor Miroshnikov.  The program opens with a bold-lettered New Jersey premier Chasing Light... by renowned American composer Joseph Schwantner, sponsored by Ford-Made in America.  We conclude with one of the most epic AND lyric symphonies in repertoire, Tchaikovsky’s powerful Symphony No. 5. 

January brings us a delicious combination of ballet music by Spaniard Manuel de Falla.  You will recognize much of his rich score to El Amor Brujo, such as the “ritual fire dance.”  We feature the electric mezzo soprano, Fenlon Lamb, who ignited our audiences performing Rigoletto.   Fenlon opens the concert with songs and arias that explore some of the same themes in El Amor Brujo, in a program not to be missed called, “Phantoms and Fire.”

Our program in March explores two contrasting sides of one of the greatest composers of symphonic form, Johannes Brahms.  His First Piano Concerto opens with more bluster and anguish, perhaps than any other, while his Second Symphony is arguably his most contented and even ebullient work.  We are delighted to welcome to our stage Philadelphia based pianist Cong Fan.

We bring young Corsican Olivier Cangelosi to perform Beethoven’s bold and innovative Third Piano Concerto, and match that work with two effervescent and youthful works by Prokofiev:  A Summer Day (Children’s Suite), and one of his best-know works, the Classical Symphony.  This work is notorious for requiring an orchestra of supreme virtuosity.  Come and share the pyrotechnics in this program we call, “Let’s Play!”   

Note:  Saturday performances at Cumberland County College 856-692-8499

Sunday Performances at Richard Stockton College 609-652-9000

Bay-Atlantic Symphony
2008-2009 Season

 November 1st and 2nd: Lyric and Epic

Chasing Light… (New Jersey Premier)…………………Joseph Schwantner

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra…………………….Robert Schumann

Christophor Miroshnikov, cello  (website)
 

Symphony No. 5……………………………………….Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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January 24th and 25th:  Phantoms and Fire

Spanish and other Songs and Arias

Fenlon Lamb, mezzo soprano

El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician)………………………Manuel De Falla

    Fenlon Lamb, mezzo soprano

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March 28th and 29th:  Shadows and Light

Piano Concerto No. 1 in d minor……………………….Johannes Brahms

Cong Fan, piano

Symphony No. 2 in D major…………………………….Johannes Brahms

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May 2nd and 3rd:  Let’s  Play!

Piano Concerto No. 3 in c minor…………………………Ludwig van Beethoven

Olivier Cangelosi, piano

A Summer Day (Children’s Suite)………………………..Sergei Prokofiev

Classical Symphony……………………………………….Sergei Prokofiev

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Pre and Post Concert Festivities

Conversations with the Maestro
Gain a better understanding of the music from the lips of the Maestro.
Please join Jed Gaylin when he meets with audience members one hour 
before each performance.

Dinners with the Maestro:
Join the Maestro, musicians, board, staff and supporters of the 
Bay Atlantic Symphony for post concert dinners.     top