BONJ Announces the exciting 2024-2025 Season.
Sunday, November 17 at 3:00 PM - Puccini and Brahms. Our season opens with a special concert celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Giacomo Puccini, one of opera''s most beloved composers. BONJ singers will present several of Puccini''s most popular arias and scenes. The second half of the concert will feature the great Symphony #2 by Johannes Brahms! With our opening concert, we start our collaborative relationship with The Morris Museum as we will perform at the Bickford Theater. Under director Tom Loughman, the museum has become a leader in local arts with exciting new exhibits and shows. The concert will be followed by a reception and visit to the Guiness Gallery. Tickets will be for the concert only or a combination of the concert, reception, and gallery visit. This special concert will begin at 3:00 PM. Bickford Theater, The Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, New Jersey.
Sunday January 19 at 2:00 PM - Warming WInter. Our annual winter wassail concert will be Sunday, January 19 at 2:00 PM, we return to Grace Episcopal Church, our original Madison home! This year's wassail concert will feature guest artists Jane Rondin playing the solo french horn part for Artek, a beautiful composition by American composer Alan Hovhaness and the duo of violinist Miriam Davis and pianist Michael Bulychev Okser who will perform the sparking yet too rarely heard Double Concerto of Felix Mendelssohn. Grace Church is at 4 Madison Ave., (Route 124), Madison, New Jersey. Grace Episcopal Church, 4 Madison Ave., (route 124), Madison, NJ.
Sunday, April 27 at 2:00 PM - Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Our Spring concert will be at Dolan Hall, The Annunciation Center, Saint Elizabeth University on Sunday April 27 at 2:00 PM. The concert will feature two symphonies: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart''s Symphony #38, The Prague Symphony and Petr Ilyich Tchaikovsky''s Symphony #6, The Pathetique. Tchaikovsky often stated that Mozart was his major inspiration, so we thought it appropriate to pair these two great symphonies together in one incredible concert. Dolan Hall, The Anninciation Center, Saint Elizabeth University, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, New Jersey.
Sunday, June 22 at 2:00 PM - Haydn and Beethoven. For our final concert, we return to Grace Episcopal Church for a Classical Era Concert on Sunday June 22 at 2:00 PM. Franz Joseph Haydn''s popular Symphony #101, The Clock will open the concert. We will welcome pianist Jackie Schiller to perform Ludwig van Beethoven''s Piano Concerto #1. Grace Episcopal Church, 4 Madison Ave., (route 124), Madison, NJ.
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