New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra
Feb. 10, 2018
SUMMIT, NJ — The New Jersey Intergenerational
Orchestra (NJIO) will bring concertgoers back to a simpler time with
their concert, “Musical Traditions in Song and Story,” on Saturday,
Feb. 18, at the Lawton C. Johnson Middle School in Summit, NJ. The
performance will begin at 3 p.m., and will feature performances from all
three of NJIO’s orchestral ensembles, as well as its Flute Choir and
Festival Chorus. Admission is free; donations are gratefully accepted.
NJIO’s Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Artistic Director Warren
Cohen and featuring the Festival Chorus, will dazzle auditions with a
rendition of the under-performed “Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast,” the first
of a trilogy of cantatas by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Coleridge-Taylor...made
multiple trips to America in his lifetime, including an invitation to
the White House by Theodore Roosevelt. His most famous work, "The Song
of Hiawatha," is a trilogy of cantatas based on the epic poem of the
same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and was an immediate hit upon
its London premiere in 1898.
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