Westminster Bell Choir

We attended another fantastic concert by the bell choir of Westminster Choir College.  It is their 40th year.  Hopefully the sale of the college to a Chinese company will not affect their future.

NJSO

You might get the idea reading this blog that all we do in the winter is go to classical music concerts.  While that is one of the reasons we are here over the winter, we do have other activities, but not anything that is usually worth blogging about.  I do have a quilt almost finished that I will post when it is done.  But today's post is again about an NJSO concert at NJPAC.  We heard

• Handel - Suite No 2 from Water Music
• Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 1, with fantastic pianist Robert Levin
• Mendelssohn - Symphony No 5 "Reformation"

And one other piece.  Robert Levin requested snippets of music from audience members, then chose three and did an amazing improvisation using them.  It was quite a treat.

Then after the concert we heard a jam session of Irish and Scottish music led by a fiddler who masquerades as an NJSO violinist and including other musicians as well.

Chamber Music

We finally made it to a Red Bank Chamber Music concert.  We heard Bryan Wagorn on piano, Rafael Figueroa on cello, and Carol Wincenc on flute play

• J S Bach - Sonata in E minor for Flute and Keyboard (and cello)
• Poulenc - Sonata for Flute and Piano
• Debussy - Sonata in D minor for Cello and Piano
• Debussy - Syrinx for flute
• Villa-Lobos - Assobio a Jato
• Von Weber - Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano - which was my favorite 

Even More Music

Last evening we drove to Princeton to hear the marvelous Artemis String Quartet.  They played

• Mozart - String Quartet No 23
• Shostakovich - String Quartet No 7
• Schumann - String Quartet Op 41, No 3