From time to time I’ll be mentioning some of the awesome things going on at Mason Gross. I think it’s the least I can do since I am one of the few shows on WRSU to feature classical music and jazz, and well, I’m an alumni. So, here are some of the events that most grabbed my attention in the next few months.
All of these events are the Nicholas Music Center in New Brunswick, NJ. For the non-free concerts, ticket information can be found at www.masongross.rutgers.edu or you can call the box office at 732-932-7511
Cendrillon by Jules Massenet
Opera at Rutgers
Fridays, January 27 and February 3 at 7:30 p.m.
Sundays, January 29 and February 5, 2 p.m.
General Public: $25 / Rutgers Alumni, Employees, and Seniors: $20 / Students: $15
- This is the first year of the brand new Opera Institute at Rutgers, so I’m sure they’re not going to hold back on Massenet’s telling of Cinderella.
Schubert: Winterreise
Faculty Recital
Fred Urrey, tenor
Barbara Gonzalez-Palmer, piano
Wednesday, February 22, 7:30 p.m.
FREE
- Urrey has a wonderful voice and who can resist a winter performance of Schubert’s delightfully dreary song cycle
A Tribute to Charles Mingus
Rutgers Jazz Ensemble featuring Mason Gross Jazz Faculty Septet
Conrad Herwig, director
Tuesday, February 28, 7:30 p.m.
General Public: $10 / Rutgers Alumni, Employees, and Seniors: $10 / Students: $5
- C’mon, its Mingus big band charts.
German and Russian with a Touch of Caucus
The Bruk-Hoffmann Duo
Brahms: Sonata for Two Pianos in F minor, Op. 34b
Shostakovich: Concertino Op. 94
Sunday, March 4, 2 p.m.
FREE
- The program will include the Brahms’ Sonata for Two Pianos in F minor and Shostakovich Concertin0. I’ve heard Hoffmann and Bruk perform Shostakovich before, when Rutgers held a symposium on the composer, and they’re great interpreters. This really shouldn’t be a free performance.
A Lorca Soundscape
Music by Alexis Cuadrado
Featuring Miguel Zenon, saxophone and Claudia Acuna, voice
Tuesday, March 27, 7:30 p.m.
FREE
- From the work description “The book is a raw social commentary on social themes–economic inequalities, racial and class discrimination, brutality of the urban landscape–still important in America today.” The piece has its premiere elsewhere this March, and I think it could be a very interesting evening a music.
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