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-April 27th, 2012
Please bring your children and join the RVSB on May 6th at 3PM as we present our annual Children’s Concert. This is a fun concert for the kids as we will present musical selections and themes around “The Wild Wild West.” This is a free concert and will be held in the auditorium at the Bridgewater-Raritan HS.
This concert will be a bit shorter than our usual concerts so as to capture the kids attention and enthusiasm as best as we can.
We will hold our “instrument petting zoo” following the concert where members of the band will show and play their instruments up close for the kids and expose them to many instruments and sounds that they may have never seen or heard in person.
For directions and other info, please click here.
-April 11th, 2012
The Raritan Valley Symphonic Band (RVSB) will present a concert titled Opera! Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 3:00 pm in the Bridgewater-Raritan High School auditorium. The school is located at 600 Garretson Road, Bridgewater, New Jersey. Admission is free and open to the public.
The concert will feature musical works from 17th and 18th century Italian opera including, “Rienzi Overture” by Richard Wagner; “The Marriage of Figaro Overture” by W.A. Mozart; “The Prelude — To Act I of La Traviata” by G.Verdi; “Jasper’s Dance” from Pineapple Poll and many more.
For directions and other info, click here.
Click here for the press release.
-March 28th, 2012
The California Pizza Kitchen restaurant at the Bridgewater Commons Mall will be sponsoring a fundraising event for the RVSB on Thursday, April 26, 2012. CPK will donate 20% of all purchases (dine-in and takeout) made with this flyer, on that day, to the Band.
-March 17th, 2012
The band is hard at work preparing for our upcoming concerts in April and May.
The concert in April will be themed around opera music and we will play some favorite pieces and works from well known operas and ballet and will include music from Rienzi by Wagner, Allerseelen by Strauss, Carmen by Bizet, Nessun Dorma by Puccini, La Traviata by Verdi and several other works. Please keep an eye on this site as we will update with the press release and final concert details very soon.
May brings us to our rescheduled Children’s Concert. This will be a short and relaxed concert where the kids are encouraged to dance in the aisles and listen to music from this year’s theme of “The Wild Wild West.” We will present themes such as, cowboys, prairies, Southwest America, and others to help paint a picture of those times. This concert will be followed by our instrument petting zoo where members of the band will present their instruments to the kids and they can see and hear them up close.
Keep an eye out for more information and details on these concerts as we get closer to the dates.
-December 10th, 2011
The December 4th RVSB Holiday concert, “War Horses”, will be on Somerville TV (Cablevision channel 15 and FIOS channel 30) this week at the following times:
Sunday, December 11th, 2:10 PM
Monday, December 12th, 7:40 PM
Tuesday, December 13th, 9:40 AM
Wednesday, December 14th, 2:10 PM
Thursday, December 15th, 7:40 PM
Friday, December 16th, 9:40 AM
Saturday, December 17th, 2:10 PM
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-December 5th, 2011
-November 10th, 2011
RARITAN VALLEY SYMPHONIC BAND TO HOST CONCERT OF CLASSICS
Musical “War Horses” and Holiday Classics
Bridgewater, NJ, December 4, 2011— The Raritan Valley Symphonic Band (RVSB) will present a concert titled Musical “War Horses” and Holiday Classics on Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 3:00 pm in the Bridgewater-Raritan High School auditorium. The school is located at 600 Garretson Road, Bridgewater, New Jersey. Admission is free and open to the public.
The concert will feature a number of great concert hall classics including, “Festive Overture” by Soviet Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich; the first movement from Symphony in B Minor, “The Unfinished Symphony” by composer Franz Schubert; scenes from “The Louvre” based on Ancient Airs by composer Norman Dello Joio; John Philip Sousa’s “King Cotton” march and more widely familiar musical works.
A new feature will be added to this concert— Larry Markiewicz, RVSB Conductor, will be hosting a multimedia pre-concert chat on the music to be performed, with a focus on scenes from “The Louvre”. This free, informal session will be held in the choir room directly next to the auditorium, from 2:15-2:45pm and is open to the public.
Click here for the press release
-October 17th, 2011
The band is hard at work preparing for our Holiday Concert on December 4th. We are also preparing for a concert in February for the NJMEA. Keep an eye on this site for more information about these and all of our concerts as we get closer to the performance dates.
The band recently held elections for a few offices on the executive board. Please go here to see the new RVSB Executive Board.
Our concerts are made possible, in part, by funds from the New Jersey State Council on on the Arts/Department of State, a partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and are administered by the Somerset County Cultural and Heritage Commission through the State/County Partnership Local Arts Program. Support is also received from the Jointure for the Community Adult Education.
