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New Jersey Festival Orchestra presents "Something New, Something Past"

Saturday, June 15, 2024 @ 7:30pm



Hertell Gardens
241 E. Dudley Ave, Westfield, NJ 07090

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Sandy Cameron returns to NJFO in Something New, Something Past

Program

Stravinsky      Pulcinella Suite

Prokofiev        Violin Concerto No.2

Beethoven     Symphony No. 7

Artists

David Wroe Conductor

Sandy Cameron Violin 

NJ Festival Orchestra brings together 3 classical music giants, each work 'tipping its hat' to borrowed material from the past then spinning out in glorious symphonic splendor.

Igor Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite grabs 18th Century Italian court music and refreshes it with kaleidoscopic modern orchestral colors, making the music shine and almost dance off the page.

Ukrainian-born Sergei Prokofiev highlights Russian folk melodies in his reflective and childlike 2nd Violin Concerto.

Finally, Ludwig Van Beethoven, through his 7th Symphony, and in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, champions the "people" through victorious and uplifting music, and even requisitioning an Irish reel in the finale!



MEET SOLOIST SANDY CAMERON

NJ Festival Orchestra welcomes back violinist Sandy Cameron!

Declared “brilliant” by the Washington Post, violinist Sandy Cameron is one of the most strikingly unique artists of her generation. Many will remember her acclaimed performance with NJ Festival Orchestra in 2013.

Since her debut at the age of 12 in the Netherlands, Sandy Cameron has performed extensively as a soloist throughout the world, performing Danny Elfman's Violin Concerto, “Eleven Eleven”, appearing with renowned trumpeter, Chris Botti, and featured in Cirque du Soleil’s IRIS, Tan Dun’s Martial Arts Trilogy, Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton, Disney's The Nightmare Before Christmas Live in Concert, Disney's The Little Mermaid Live in Concert, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Live in Concert.

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Sandy Cameron performs with NJFO in 2013.

Ms. Cameron has recorded for Sony Classical and can also be heard on soundtracks to Renfield, The Call of the Wild, The Professor and The Madman, Cirque Du Soleil’s IRIS, the video games Call of Duty: Vanguard and Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, the History Channel’s Houdini, and more.

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