At the season’s opening concert, the PSO warmly welcomes members of China’s Hangzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles, in residence for the U.S. premiere of Zhou Tian’s The Grand Canal, which was commissioned by the Federation in celebration of the magnificent waterway that has shaped Chinese history. Stravinksy’s Song of the Nightingale, based on a fairytale set in ancient China, takes...
Since its founding in 1980, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra has evolved from a small yet highly respected community-based chamber orchestra into a professional orchestra of the highest artistic quality. Offering orchestral, pops, and chamber music concerts, as well as lecture events, children's programs, and innovative collaborative programming, the orchestra is Princeton's hub for classical music...
At the season’s opening concert, the PSO warmly welcomes members of China’s Hangzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles, in residence for the U.S. premiere of Zhou Tian’s The Grand Canal, which was commissioned by the Federation in celebration...
At the season’s opening concert, the PSO warmly welcomes members of China’s Hangzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles, in residence for the U.S. premiere of Zhou Tian’s The Grand Canal, which was commissioned by the Federation in celebration of the magnificent waterway that has shaped Chinese history. Stravinksy’s Song of the Nightingale, based on a fairytale set in ancient China, takes...
Since its founding in 1980, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra has evolved from a small yet highly respected community-based chamber orchestra into a professional orchestra of the highest artistic quality. Offering orchestral, pops, and chamber music concerts, as well as lecture events, children's programs, and innovative collaborative programming, the orchestra is Princeton's hub for classical music...
This concert is a preview to the world premiere dramatization of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. The program opens with Prokofiev’s Suite to Eugene Onegin, composed for a staging of the classic novel-in-verse. The dramatic adaptation was banned by the Soviet government in 1936, and will be given its first-ever performance on February 9 (see more information below). Shostakovich also faced pressures from the Stalinist government. His Symphony No. 5 was written under the threat of being branded an enemy of the people, but the work’s elements of classicism ultimately had the power to earn him both political and public favor. Headlining the concert is “classical rock star” Joshua Roman, who will perform Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, a tribute to the simple elegance of Mozart’s musical style.
Prokofiev, Suite from Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky, Variations on a Rococo Theme
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5 in D Minor
Joshua Roman, cello
Rossen Milanov, conductor
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Please also join the PSO on February 9 for a world premiere of the recently recovered theatrical adaptation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. The never-before-performed text will be united with Prokofiev’s score of incidental music for the first time, in a joint production with Princeton University’s music, dance, and Slavic studies departments. Please click here to learn more about the Onegin Project, supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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PSO Soundtracks: The Onegin Project
More Than a Concert
Staged Performance of Eugene Onegin
