Name: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Xian Zhang
Start: 2025-04-05T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-05T22:00:00-04:00
Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Xian Zhang

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Xian Zhang, conductor
Gregory D. McDaniel, conductor
Steven Banks, saxophone
Felicia Moore, soprano
Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano
Issachah Savage, tenor
Reginald Smith Jr., baritone
Montclair State University Chorale | Heather J. Buchanan, director
New Jersey Symphony
Beethoven’s Ninth—with its cries for brotherhood and joy—came from a war-torn time 200 years ago, and this inspiring symphony has never been more relevant than today. This exciting program also introduces you to an astonishing new talent, saxophonist Steven Banks, as he lifts the Black experience from Africa to now in Billy Childs’ saxophone concerto, Diaspora.
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Polonaise from Eugene Onegin
Billy Childs, Diaspora
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, “Choral”
Program update: Gregory D. McDaniel, the New Jersey Symphony’s Colton Conducting Fellow, will conduct Tchaikovsky’s Polonaise from Eugene Onegin. Music Director Xian Zhang will conduct Billy Childs’ Diaspora and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, “Choral.”