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the conductorJED GAYLIN throughout the region, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony

has forged residencies with area colleges, numerous towns, music festivals such as Cape May, and even casinos. Atlantic City’s Borgata hosts the Symphony for an all-classical summer series, begun in 2013. In 2012, Jed Gaylin was named Artist in Residence at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. This position is a part of an innovative model in which Bay-Atlantic Symphony is integrated into the music curriculum. Also in 2012, he was named Music Director of the Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Mr. Gaylin served as the Director of Orchestras at the International Music Festival and Summer Course of Cervera (Spain) and was a regular conductor at Opera Vivente in Baltimore. His numerous guest appearances include St. Petersburg State Symphony, National Film and Radio Philharmonic (Beijing, China), Shanghai Conservatory Orchestra, Bucharest Radio Orchestra, Academia del Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain), Eastman School Music Broadband Ensemble, among many others. He has performed with such soloists as Hilary Hahn, Yuja Wang, Eugenia Zukerman, Shai Wosner, and Stefan Jackiw.

Jed Gaylin’s television and radio broadcasts include National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, Voice of America, Bucharest Radio Orchestra, and the National Radio and Film Philharmonic (Beijing). He has been aired in the US on WWFM in New Jersey and WYPR in Baltimore.

Mr. Gaylin earned both a Bachelor of Music in piano and a Master of Music in conducting at the Oberlin Conservatory, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in conducting at the Peabody Conservatory. He attended the Aspen Music Festival as a Conducting Fellow. Among other honors, he has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and the Presser Music Award. His conducting teachers have included Frederik Prausnitz, Leonard Slatkin, Jahja Ling, Murry Sidlin, Paul Vermel, and Michel Singher, and, for piano, Lydia Frumkin.

Find out more about Jed Gaylin at jedgaylin.com.

“Generous” is the word listeners and performers use time and again to describe conductor Jed Gaylin’s approach to the orchestra, the score, and the audience. His joyful abandon and probing intellect together create powerful programs, compelling interpretations, and evenings that are fresh and exuberant. George Szell said, “In music one must think with the heart and feel with the mind,” a maxim Jed Gaylin embodies abundantly and passionately.

Orchestra members throughout the world, soloists, and opera singers often recount how Jed Gaylin’s rehearsals and performances elicit their very best, not only individually but collectively. He revels in making connections not only within a piece, but also between seemingly disparate and wide-ranging works to sculpt a concert of surprising, captivating juxtapositions. His dedication to exploring the music’s fullest potential in a collaborative spirit reaches beyond the stage to draw the audience into the creative act. Listeners feel far more than just welcomed by words from the podium—they feel engaged as participants in a wordless musical conversation that is spontaneous, big-hearted, and eloquent.

As Music Director, Jed Gaylin leads the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, and Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra with the same creative depth and an open spirit that he brings to the podium. The Bay-Atlantic Symphony is now not only consistently praised for its astonishing level of artistry and precision, it is also viewed throughout New Jersey as a model for how professional orchestras can become a vital focus and source of identity in their communities. As a sought-after creative partner

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JOHN FOGERTY

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From the President | III

Tonight’s Performance | V

Artist Biography | VI

Program Notes | VIII

Orchestra Personnel | XI

Annual Fund | XIII

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Dear Friends,

Welcome to the final concert of the Bay Atlantic Symphony subscription series. Music Director Jed Gaylin could not have put together a better concert to end this wonderful season. We are so happy to have violinist Ryu Goto return and perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. You are in for a treat. The rest of the tremendous program includes Stravinsky’s: Concerto in E-flat major, “Dumbarton Oaks”, Debussy’s Petite Suite and NJ composer Amanda Harberg’s “Prayer.” Ms. Harberg plans to be with us today so please let her know how much you enjoyed her piece.

Today the Bay Atlantic Symphony is happy to announce its 2015-16 Season. We hope you are as excited as we are.

We open on october 31 & november 1 with Maurice Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose): 5 pièces enfantines (Suite) and the extraordinary Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the tremendous Jennifer Casey Cabot, soprano.

For our holiday concerts on december 12 & 13 we will be performing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti No. 2 and No. 3. A delightful holiday treat.

January 23 & 24, 2016 brings back two great friends of the Symphony, Kai Gleusteen and Catherine Ordronneau, performing Bach and Mendelssohn in a very special, personal concert—a sensational way to begin the new year.

On march 19 & 20 Bay Atlantic Symphony’s Concertmaster Ruotao Mao headlines the concert performing, as a soloist, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Composer Steven Mento returns with an original piece, Algonquian Dreamcatcher, based on Native American tunes he heard in southern New Jersey. You must not miss this exceptional concert.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 ends the season on may 21 & 22 along with the young exciting pianist Sejoon Park, performing with BAS for the first time. Mr. Park will be performing Chopin’s Concerto No. 2.

Thank you to Woodruff Energy for keeping our ticket prices affordable and for helping us keep the 2015-16 season ticket prices the same price. What a tremendous gift Woodruff Energy gives to South Jersey music lovers.

The Symphony will again have a very busy summer with performances at the Cape May Music Festival, three big concerts in Avalon, three classical music concerts at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa and our annual Gala on September 19 at the Borgata of A Celebration of Rodgers and Hammerstein, hosted by Oscar Andy Hammerstein III. Please take a look in the rest of the program for times and places.

Please sign up for our email blasts so we can let you know ASAP when tickets are available. Last year’s Borgata Gala was sold out. We expect the same with the Rodgers and Hammerstein Concert so get on our email list and get the best seats.

Thanks for your support.

Regards,Robert Watters

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Jed Gaylin, Conductor

Amanda Harberg Prayer

Igor Stravinsky concerto in eb (dumbarton oaks) (1938) (1882-1971) Tempo giusto – Allegretto – Con moto

Claude Debussy Petite Suite, L 65 (1862-1918) En bateau (Sailing): Andantino Cortège (Retinue): Moderato Menuet: Moderato Ballet: Allegro giusto

I n T E R M I S S I O n

Ludwig van Beethoven Violin concerto in d major, op. 61 (1770-1827) Allegro ma non troppo Larghetto Rondo. Allegro Ryu Goto, violin

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ryu Goto has established himself as a significant voice in classical music, with a large and growing public in Asia, North America and Europe. Ryu’s career began at age seven when he made his debut at

the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, playing Paganini’s Violin Concerto No.1. Since then, Ryu has appeared as a soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras, ensembles including National Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Münchner Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Sydney Symphony, Orchestre national de Lyon, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Hamburger Symphoniker and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with conductors including Lorin Maazel, Tan Dun, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Fabio Luisi, Leonard Slatkin, Kent nagano, Myung-Whun Chung and Jonathan nott. Ryu has already performed in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Tokyo Suntory Hall, Sydney Opera House, Shanghai Grand Theater, Taipei National Concert Hall, Vienna Musikverein, Munich’s Herkulessaal and the Philharmonic Hall Gasteig.

Ryu’s philanthropic work includes working with student musicians throughout the world, mentoring their development, conducting

master classes in conjunction with the world’s top institutions. Efforts include the “Ryu Goto Excellence In Music Initiative Scholarship” with the NYC Department of Education, as well as collaborations with institutions like the Juilliard School and the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra. He does extensive musical outreach in developing countries in Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa.

Ryu’s features in media are numerous including his own documentary “Ryu Goto’s Odyssey”, a chronicle of his career and personal life from 1996-2006. He is endorsed by airweave and also serves as spokesperson for the East Japan Railway Company with regular coverage on TV, radio and in print.

Ryu records for Deutsche Grammophon in collaboration with Universal Classics Japan. In May 2011 he graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Physics and is currently studying the violin with Prof. Ana Chumachenco. He is a member of US-Japan Council, and has accepted an award from the Japanese American Bar Association as a Japanese-American leader. He holds a 3rd degree black belt from the Japan Karate Association. He performs on the Stradivarius 1722 violin “Jupiter” on loan to him from Nippon Music Foundation.

artist biography

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C o m p o s e r / p i a n i s t amanda Harberg’s recent commissions include works for the Grand Rapids Symphony, the New Jersey Youth Symphony and the Albany Symphony’s Dogs of Desire. Her works have also

been performed by the National Symphony of Ecuador, the Thuringer Symphoniker, the American Modern Ensemble, the Harmonium Choral Society, the New York Licorice Ensemble, the Olympia Philharmonic Society and many more.

Harberg’s awards include a 2014 NJ State Council on the Arts Award, a Fulbright/Hays Fellowship, two Meet the Composer Creative Connections grants, the NY Youth Symphony’s First Music Award, a grant from the NY State Council on the Arts, and Juilliard’s Peter Menin Prize for outstanding accomplishment.

A dedicated teacher, Harberg currently teaches at Rocky Ridge Music Center and the ASTA Chamber Music Institute, and she has maintained an active private teaching studio since 1997. Harberg received her BM and MM from the Juilliard School where she studied with Steven Albert, David Diamond and Robert Beaser.

Harberg’s music is published by the Theodore Presser Company, and she has recordings out on Koch International, American Modern Records, Centaur Records, Albany Records, and on American Modern Recordings. Harberg lives with her family in Glen Ridge nJ, where she is director of the Music in Montclair series.

artist biography

Thursday June 4, 2015, 8pmFirst Presbyterian Church of Cape May

500 Hughes StreetCape May, NJ

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Andante Cantabile(1840-1893)

Ney Rosauro

Marimba Concerto no. 1(b. 1952)

I. Saudação (Greetings)

II. Lamento (Lament)

III. Dança (Dance)

IV. Despedida (Farewell)

Makoto Nakura, marimba

Franz Peter Schubert

Octet for Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Strings(1797-1828)

in F major, D 803/Op. 166:

I. Adagio – Allegro

II. Adagio

III. Allegro vivace

IV. Andante [con variazioni]

V. Menuetto. Allegro

VI. Andante molto – Allegro

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MOUNTAINS AND MAMBO

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program notesusually uncreditedby Paul Mack SmersBay Atlantic Symphony Director of Adult Education

All the works in this concert have a person involved in its creation or success, who on the program page is at best mentioned only in passing and usually not mentioned at all. These “shadowy” persons are well worth mentioning here.

amanda Harberg, who lives in Glen Ridge, nJ, writes about Prayer:

“My music is often composed as an emotional response to specific events happening in my life. Prayer is no different. I composed the piece after discovering that a beloved family member was seriously ill. It is quite literally, a prayer for her to heal.

“Prayer begins with the viola rising gently out of simple harp arpeggios. The piece flows seamlessly from beginning to end, with two main arcs, in which the melody works its way up to its highest registers in pleading gestures, and falls back down to a place of peaceful resolution.

“Originally, Prayer was composed as the second movement of my Concerto for Viola and Orchestra. I arranged it as a stand-alone piece for orchestra in 2014 for the New Jersey Youth Symphony. The piece also exists in an arrangement for piano and viola.”

The uncredited person in the work in the form we hear it today is the viola soloist Brett Deubner, for whom the brilliantly effective full Viola Concerto was composed.

igor stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks Concerto

Mildred Barnes Bliss and her husband Robert Woods Bliss decided to commission a piece of music to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. She had inherited the wealth of her Congressman father Demas Bliss, who had made his fortune from the famous laxative Fletcher’s Castoria. Mildred and her husband Robert (who was also her step-brother), a long-time diplomat, had retired to a life of philanthropy.

Igor Stravinsky, who lived in Paris, was, of course, already well-known in America, and they decided to ask him. Nadia Boulanger was also well known in America as a teacher of and mentor to several American composers who came to study with her in France. So it seemed to the Blisses that Boulanger would be a good conduit to reach Stravinsky with a commission. And so was that it was she who brokered the deal, as it were, for a chamber orchestra work by Stravinsky to be premiered at Dumbarton Oaks, the Bliss’s estate in Washington, D. C.

Stravinsky intended to conduct the premier, but was hospitalized with tuberculosis. So Boulanger herself conducted the private performance on May 8, 1938. The first public performance took place in Paris on June 4, 1938, this time with the composer conducting, his health obviously recovered.

Stravinsky was composing in what is called his Neo–Classic style, which features very clean melodies and accompaniments. Though “neo–classic” would suggest the music of Haydn, Mozart, and other composers of the classical period, Dumbarton Oaks Concerto actually contains far more elements found in baroque music, especially solid contrapuntal writing including a fugal passage and many canons. The “Concerto” designation in the title in this context is doubtless a reference to the extensive solo passages for the various members of the ensemble, which are rather like that found in a baroque concerto grosso.

It proved to be the final piece Stravinsky composed in Europe before emigrating to America with his wife to escape World War II as it began.

The usually uncredited person in this work is Nadia Boulanger, who was so often a positive behind-the-scenes presence in her wide-spread musical world.

… And then there is Fletcher’s Castoria, which rarely receives a musical acknowledgment.

claude debussy’s Petite Suite, L65

This is a very early (1889) suite for piano-four-hands (in other words, a piano duet), arranged for orchestra by Henri Büsser. The first two

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program notesmovements are musical depictions of poems from the volume Fêtes galantes by Debussy’s favorite poet Paul Verlaine.

En bateau [Sailing] is an erotic poem about impossible love pairings in legend and myth sailing off to an island where their desires will not be impossible after all. The poetry is very spare, all couched in metaphors depending on the reader knowing the names of the “impossible” lovers.

Cortege [Retinue], comically erotic, paints a picture of an elegant woman with a pet ape and an attendant to carry the train of her dress. Those two take turns looking up under her dress while she ignores them…or does she?

All four movements, not yet in Debussy’s quite personal voice, are homages to other French composers of the period. Whether they were intended as such or not is not known. Meanwhile, any translation of the music into visual art would certainly evoke the eighteenth century world of artists Fragonard and Watteau far more than those of Debussy’s own world of Renoir.

We don’t usually pay much attention to the arrangers of music, but the usually credited but ignored person in this work is Henri Büsser (which, though he was French, he pronounced in the German manner). He was a conductor who was handed the baton for Debussy’s opera Pelleas et Melisande after only a few performances with its first conductor. Soon thereafter he became the chief conductor at the Opéra for many decades. But, as he remembered in an interview he gave on his 100th birthday (he died a year later in 1973), in 1907 he shyly asked Debussy if he could have permission to orchestrate the Petite Suite, saying he had it already imagined in his head.Debussy agreed whole-heartedly right on the spot. Büsser went on to orchestrate a few other Debussy works as well.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, op. 61

Franz Clement was a violinist who played one of his own violin concertos in the same 1805 concert which included the premiere of Beethoven’s

“Eroica” Symphony. The two became friends, and in 1806 Clement commissioned a violin concerto from Beethoven. Clement was known for his elegant, light sound and brilliant technique. All descriptions of his playing indicate that he did not use a big, bold Italian sound. Perhaps that explains why the premiere was not well-received. Oddly enough to our tastes or sense of propriety, few seemed to mind that Clement inserted a novelty number between the first and second movements of Beethoven’s new concerto: a showpiece played on one string with the violin upside down! The real problem was that they didn’t quite understand what Beethoven was doing; and this was quite possibly because Clement was so busy being elegant, that he didn’t “sell” the piece, to put it in modern terms.

In fact, it was not until 1844, when the 13-year-old violinist Joseph Joachim took up the neglected work for a performance in London, that it gained its rightful place among the great concerti. Of course, it didn’t hurt that Felix Mendelssohn was on the podium, or that the London Philharmonic was far better than any orchestra of Beethoven’s time. Thirty-eight years after the premiere, listeners now thoroughly immersed in romanticism were drawn in by the unusual, even mysterious, four soft strokes on a timpanum which open the first movement. Also adding to the audience’s excitement were both the bold sound young Joachim drew from his instrument and their interest in hearing cadenzas composed by such a youthful soloist. As it turned out, those cadenzas were so spectacular that they are still used by some of today’s soloists.

The usually uncredited person in this work is the ubiquitously benevolent Felix Mendelssohn, who talked the at first unwilling London Philharmonic into engaging such a young artist, and of course had already been such a fine mentor and support for Joachim. And it was so in character for Mendelssohn to find the true worth of a neglected, even disliked work by a long dead composer, and reveal it as a masterpiece. He’d already done it for Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.

Joachim, of course, went on to become one of the leading violinists of the late 19th century. For awhile his piano accompanist was Brahms, whose own great Violin Concerto was composed many years later for Joachim.

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Saturday Performances – 8pm Cumberland County College

856-692-8499

Sunday Performances –2pm Stockton University

609-652-9000*Holiday Concert at the Campus Center Theater

Subscription Series $100 – 4 shows $125 –5 shows

Individual tickets $30

2015-2016 Season

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Cumberland County College and Stockton University

October 31 & November 1Ravel—Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) Mahler—Symphony No. 4 Jennifer Casey Cabot, soprano

December 12 & 13 Holiday Cheer * A joyful celebration of the Holiday Seasons!

January 23 & 24Bach—Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 Kai Gleusteen, violinBach—Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056 Catherine Ordronneau, pianoMendelssohn—Concerto for Violin and Piano Kai Gleusteen, violin Catherine Ordronneau, piano

March 19 & 20Tchaikovsky—Violin Concerto Ruotao Mao, violinSteven Mento—Algonquian DreamcatcherBrahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn

May 21 & 22Chopin–Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor Sejoon Park, piano Beethoven—Symphony No. 7

Dates/Times/Locations/Tickets

ConductorJed Gaylin

Jennifer Casey Cabot, soprano

Catherine Ordronneau, piano;Kai Gleusteen, violin

Ruotao Mao, violin

Sejoon Park, piano

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VioLin iRuotao Mao,

concertmasternancy Jan,

associate concertmasterThomas Jackson,

concertmaster emeritusAmanda Hockenberger Jonathan MoserMary Greening

VioLin iiGenaro Medina, principalNina Vieru, assistantEliso GegeshidzeMary MoserRuth Kiangnatasha Colkett

VioLaAna Tsinadze, principalRenee Steffy-Warnick,

assistantAdelya ShagidullinaMarka G. Stepper

ceLLoElizabeth Mendoza,

principalnancy Stokking, assistantAnamaria AchiteiMaud Fried-Goodnight

BassMichael Egan, principalLesa Hornaday-Kurtz,

assistant

fLute Monica Buffington,

principalBeverly Pugh-Corry,

piccolo

oBoe Terence Belzer, principalCheryl Tirpak,

english horn

cLarinet Christopher Di Santo,

principalKaren Di Santo

Bassoon Ping Liang, principalRichard Carroll

Horn Jonathan Clark, principalAmy Boyd

trumPet Bryan K. Appleby-

Wineberg, principalBrian Cook

timPani John Hintz, Jr., principal

Percussion Kenneth Riehman,

principal

HarP Rong Tan, principal

may 2 & 3, 2015

orchestra personnel

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$2,500-$5,000Lia Purpura and Jed Gaylin

$100-$500Joan & Robert Watters

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AvAlon Summer 2015 repertoiresaturday, July 4, 2015, 7 p.m.community Hall30th st. & the Beach, avalon, nJ Broadway on the Boards

John Stafford Smith: The Star-Spangled BannerRichard Rodgers: Selections from “Oklahoma!”Frederick Loewe: Lerner and Loewe TributeLeonard Bernstein: “West Side Story” MedleyAndrew Lloyd Webber: Selections from “Phantom of the Opera”

IntermissionJohn Philip Sousa: Washington Post MarchJohn Philip Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever (featuring Cameo Guest Conductor)\Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture

avalon free Public Library235 32nd st., avalon, nJ Presents the Symphony by the Sea series with Jed Gaylin and the Bay atlantic symphony

saturday, July 18, 2015, 7 pm Isn’t It Romantic

Antonin Dvorak: Cello Concerto Christine Lamprea, celloIntermissionNicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

saturday, august 15, 2015, 7 pm Classically Viennese

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to Don GiovanniWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of FigaroWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 2 Jonathan Clark, horn

IntermissionFranz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 104

Jonathan Clark

Christine Lamprea

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AkPharma Inc.

Supports the Bay-Atlantic Symphony

AkPharma Inc.PO Box 111

Pleasantville, NJ 08232(609) 645-5100

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Maestro, Jed Gaylin

2015 Gus Cilento, md Young People’s Concerts

Inspiring the Youth of South Jersey

Check out our video at: http://bayatlanticsymphony.org/youngpeoplesconcerts/educational-video/

How Music Talks: colors & shapes

Debussy Petite Suite: 2) Cortège, 4) BalletStravinsky Dumbarton Oaks Concerto 1) Tempo giusto, 3) Con motoBeethoven Violin Concerto, 3rd movement

FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015 9:45-10:30 AM 11:15 AM-NoonCumberland County CollegeGuaracini Performing Arts CenterCall (856) 451-1169 for reservations.

TUESDAY, MAY 5, 201510:30-11:15 AMRichard Stockton CollegePerforming Arts CenterCall (609) 652-4786 for reservations.

FREE TICKETS are made possible by generous

donations of our supporters. A limited number of FREE bus

vouchers are available, on a first come,

first served basis.

Call (856) 451-1169 for information.

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WOODRUFF ENERGY KEEPS THE MUSIC PLAYING

With the Bay-Atlantic Symphony

A generous grant from Woodruff Energy has allowed the Bay-Atlantic Symphony to keep its tickets prices affordable through the 2014-15 season: from tonight’s Broadway A-Z -- Abba to Les Miz and all through a great classical season with Beethoven Rimsky-Korsakov and Chopin.

Thanks to Woodruff Energy’s donation, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony will keep ticket prices for the 2014-15 classical music season at $30 for an individual tickets, and only $100 for a season ticket purchase—that’s $25 per seat.

November 1 & 2, 2014. Scheherazade and Beethoven. Scheherazade is one of those works whose sheer beauty and exotic colors keeps audiences entranced, just as the heroine of the 1001 Nights Entertainment kept the Sultan under her spell. And our audiences will also be spell-bound by violinist Stefan Jackiw in contrasting works of sublime simplicity and fiercely virtuosic gypsy fiddling in this program of romance and exotic music.

January 24 & 25, 2015. Vivaldi, Gjeilo and Lauridsen. Our January program always promises something different. We combine our chamber orchestra with stunningly beautiful works of light, Lux Aeterna, and Glory, Gloria. Our good friends, Choral Arts of Southern New Jersey join us for the entire program, which contrasts the lyricism and bounce.

March 21 & 22, 2015. Chopin and Schumann. These works by Chopin and Schumann are two of the most Romantic, intimate, and lyrical works in the repertoire. Meltingly gorgeous, but also with a joy and abandon that lifts them to great heights, this is a program for those whose hearts forever yearn. In these cases, love is actually requited. We are delighted to bring back piano sensation, and New Jersey resident Terrence Wilson.

May 2 & 3, 2015. Beethoven & Stravinksy. This program makes a breath-taking voyage from a new work of gentle expressive lyricism by New Jersey composer Amanda Harberg, to the exquisite perfume of Debussy, and then to the leaner, more etched Stravinsky. In the second half these attributes are amped up with all the drive of middle Beethoven in his all-embracing Violin Concerto. The always surprising and brilliant Ryu Goto, who played Sibelius with us in Avalon, joins us for the first time in our subscription concerts in this odyssey of a concert.

Woodruff Energy, a great supporter of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is the region’s leader in providing total in-home and commercial comfort technology and is dedicated to bringing you new ideas and energy efficiency, with the services and dependability exemplified since 1869.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony performs it’s classical series at:Richard Stockton College (Box office 609-652-9000)Cumberland County College (Box office 856-692-8499)