Bay Atlantic Symphony`s Love Potions

The Stockton Performing Arts Center presents the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, its orchestra in residence, on Sunday, September 29th at 4pm. The program is entitled "Love Potions" featuring the music of von Weber, Scriabin, and Bezet.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony is proud to present a season brimming with romance, obsession, fire, simple elegance, and ardor. Philadelphia pianist Clipper Erickson returns to the BAS stage in a program devoted to love potions. Don Jose is smitten by Carmen's figurative potions (pun intended). In Der Freischutz, the devil himself casts a potion that leads the Huntsman Max off the path of winning his true love in a competition. It's all in the overture. Scriabin's intoxicating Piano Concerto is yet a further example of the composer's insistence that music and Eros are one. Too bad for us he only wrote one.

Piano soloist Clipper Erickson will add his acclaimed "divine power" to Bay-Atlantic Symphony's first of four performances this season. The Charleston News and Courier describe Erickson by saying, " It takes a pianist of almost divine power to render this sort of music…," Erickson is featured in recitals and with orchestras throughout the United States each year, and is one of a handful of pianists chosen for the roster of the Pennsylvania Performing Arts Tour. Erickson's discography includes "Without Borders" and "Woven Images".

The very personal, committed performances Conductor Jed Gaylin inspires and his deep connection with audiences and orchestras are commanding increasing attention. In 2002-03 Gaylin assumes two new posts: Principle Conductor of the Cape May Music Festival (NJ), where the Bay-Atlantic Symphony will be Orchestra in Residence, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Sibiu State Philharmonic in Romania. His performances in Romania have been met with overwhelming response from the orchestra, audience, and press. Past engagements have included the Naples Philharmonic in Florida, Aspen Music Festival, Orquesta Sinfónica de Guanajuato (Mexico), Moscow Chamber Symphony, The Gnessin Institute Orchestra (Moscow), and Filharmonia Pomorska (Poland).

Preceding the concert will be the informative and entertaining "Pre-Concert Conversation with the Conductor," at 3pm. It will feature commentary on the evening's music and examples played by members of the orchestra.

Tickets to Love Potions on Sunday, September 29th at 4PM are $25 for orchestra and $20 for mezzanine. $12 for students and $8 for children (when accompanied by an adult). To order tickets, call the Stockton Performing Arts Center Box Office at (609) 652-9000. The Box office is open Monday through Friday from 10am to 5pm and an hour and a half before the performance. Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Card orders are welcome.

For our patrons with special needs, the Stockton Performing Arts Center offers wheelchair accessible seating, large type programs, and listening assisted devices. Please identify any needs you may have when making a reservation. The Stockton Performing Arts Center, the Jersey Shore's premier Center for the Arts, is located on the campus of The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, on Jim Leeds Road in Pomona (Galloway Township). Just 12 miles west of Atlantic City, the Center is easily accessible from the Garden State Parkway and the Atlantic City Expressway.

This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment of the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment of the Arts.

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Author: Press Release-Stockton Performing Arts Center