To pair with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto (Diana Kim, soloist and concerto competition winner), RSO will open the concert with Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza – a showcase of orchestral music inspired by Beethoven. Bohuslav Martinu’s Symphony No. 2 will bring contrast and refreshed sound to this program.

Conducted by Dr. Anthony Branker, the Rutgers University Jazz Lab Big Band performs Duke Ellington’s “Black, Brown, and Beige”   Duke Ellington’s "Black, Brown, and Beige" remains one of the seminal works of his legendary career. Described by Ellington as being a “tone parallel to the history of the American Negro,” it was easily the … Read More

Presented by the Jewish Music Forum, a Project of the American Society for Jewish Music joins us for a discussion with Susan Mandell, whose cantorial career exemplifies women's expansion into religious leadership positions in the 1960s. · Cantor Susan Mandell, Temple Emanu-El of Edison, NJ, 1964–1978 · Cantor Kalix Jacobson, Temple Emanuel of South Hills, … Read More

The Rutgers University Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Conrad Herwig, will feature a tribute to jazz bassist and composer, Jaco Pastorius. The premier twenty-two-piece student jazz orchestra will showcase arrangements from Pastorius’s best-known recordings, including “Continuum” and “Liberty City.”