Music Director Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra open the NJSO's 2012–13 concert season on Friday, September 28, with an Opening Night Celebration featuring sensational pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on a program of Jazz-Age American music. The Orchestra presents works by John Harbison and Ferde Grofé as part of the New Jersey Roots Project, and the concert closes with the work of a master of the Jazz Age-Duke Ellington's Harlem.
The Opening Night concert begins at 7 p.m. at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. Additional performances take place at the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown on Saturday, September 29, at 3 p.m. and at NJPAC on Sunday, September 30, at 3 p.m. Special festivities surrounding the September 28 Opening Night performance include a pre-concert cocktail party and post-concert dinner.
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