In advance of Princeton University Concerts’ “Healing with Music” event The Beat Goes On: Healing from Cancer through Music with writer and Princeton University alumna Suleika Jaouad and musician Jon Batiste, dive into Jaouad‘s NY Times bestselling book Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted through this book club presented in partnership with the Princeton Public Library. Between Two Kingdoms follows Suleika Jaouad’s incredible battle with cancer, her journey with introspection once she recovered, and the role creativity played throughout. These book club discussions will be led by PPL Adult Programming Manager Janie Hermann and PUC Outreach Manager Dasha Koltunyuk. 10:30AM: in-person at the Princeton Public Library 7:00PM: online on Zoom This event is presented by Princeton University Concerts. For a full event listing and tickets, please visit this link.
“Every day of my life that I am allowed to play Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and the music of our own time,” says piano legend Mitsuko Uchida, “is a gift from somewhere. If heaven existed, it’s heaven.” To have this extraordinary musician back to perform Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas is, indeed, a musical heaven an exquisite combination of monumental music performed by one of the most revered artists of our time. Of all of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, the final three are especially hallowed for the astonishing emotional ground that they cover, from utter anguish to complete exhilaration, communicated through breathtaking virtuosity. To hear Beethoven’s final thoughts on the piano sonata as a genre in Uchida’s venerated hands is a defining moment in Princeton University Concerts’ 129-year history. This event is presented by Princeton University Concerts. For a full event listing and tickets, please visit this link.
Before experiencing pianist Fred Hersch in concert and conversation as part of Princeton University Concerts’ new “Healing with Music” series, come to the Princeton Garden Theatre to get to know this legendary musician and exquisite human through a screening of The Ballad of Fred Hersch, the award-winning documentary by Charlotte Lagarde and Carrie Lozano. A post-screening discussion with Fred Hersch will follow. The Ballad of Fred Hersch is an intimate portrait of one of today’s foremost jazz pianists. With more than 30 albums and 15 Grammy nominations, Hersch is internationally revered in jazz circles as a master improviser. A maverick in music and in life, he was the first jazz musician to come out as gay and HIV-positive in the early 1990s, and he miraculously survived a two-month coma in 2008. Both exacting and full of love, this documentary captures Hersch’s creative process as he does double duty as a workaday jazzman and first-time theater producer turning his trage
In one of the most highly-anticipated debuts in Princeton University Concerts’ recent history, Icelandic sensation Víkingur Ólafsson “the new superstar of the piano” (The Telegraph) brings his trademark ability to breathe new life into classical convention with a program that is sure to transform how you think about and experience Mozart’s music. As part of Ólafsson’s vision to “see all music as contemporary music,” he invites us to rediscover this legendary composer by ingeniously setting his work within the framework of his contemporaries. It is no wonder that the recent Deutsche Grammophon recording of this completely hypnotizing and enlightening program has topped international charts, been streamed over two hundred million times, and won prestigious awards. To hear it live, conveyed through the sublime artistry of this young phenomenon, promises to be nothing short of revelatory. This event is presented by Princeton University Concerts. For a full event listing