Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Friday, April 5, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 6, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 7, 2024, 3 p.m.
Friday, April 12, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 13, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 14, 2024, 3:00 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an award winning musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice that reimagines the biblical story of Joseph, his father Jacob, his eleven siblings and the coat of many colors.
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Symphony of Winds and Percussion
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
The NJCU Symphony of Winds and Percussion, directed by Patrick J. Burns, will present "Foundations", a concert series of classic and modern music for wind band, at Kearny High School and on campus at Margaret Williams Theatre. The program will feature Clifton Williams' Symphonic Suite (1956), one of the most important works written for band during its time. The program will also include Patrick Burns' Benediction (2021), Richard Franko Goldman's Foundation March(1959), Dayla Spencer's Reflect As We Walk (2022), William Owens' Quicksilver Galop (2018), and Alfred Reed's epic work, To Rejoice in the Beauty of Peace (1983).
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Multi-Style Strings X-Travaganza
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
Join us for a Multi-Style/Multi-Media String X-Travaganza: Cloud Stories & other Extra Natural Phenomena
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Spirit of Life Ensemble
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
This multi-horn ensemble is founded by percussionist David Daoud Williams and is heavily grounded in the loft scene of the 1970s.
This is jazz with a world beat, paying homage to the all-important African roots of jazz. The band has had numerous jazz legends as its members, including Archie Shepp, Randy Weston, Pharoah Sanders, Eddie Henderson, Kenny Barron, and Joe Ford. The Ensemble also has deep Paris roots and is regularly heard in the city’s great jazz clubs and has collaborated with many great French jazz musicians. This performance is presented as part of the William Paterson residency of the great artist, activist, and Paterson native Ben Jones.
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Spring Concert Chorale
Sunday, April 28, 2024, 3:00 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
The Caroline L. Guarini Department of Music, Dance and Theatre presents "A Spring Choral Concert" featuring the NJCU Concert Chorale directed by Dr. Robert Prowse. The concert will take place on Sunday, April 28 at 3:00 pm in the Margaret Williams Theatre on NJCU's Main Campus. The featured work will be Gabriel Fauré's "Requiem", performed with orchestra. Fauré's Requiem contains some of his most beautiful and comforting music. It is a favorite of choirs and audiences around the world. The choir will also perform music by Randal Thompson, Morten Lauridsen, and A.R. Rahman.
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Operetta Iolanthe
Saturday, May 4, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 5, 2024, 3:00 p.m.
Rossey Hall, Room 105
The Caroline L. Guarini Department of Music, Dance, and Theatre presents the operetta "Iolanthe" with words by W.S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan. Performances will take place on Saturday, May 4 at 7:00 pm and Sunday, May 5 at 3:00 pm in Rossey Hall 105. Directed by Dr. Robert Prowse, the cast includes current music majors and NJCU alumni, accompanied by orchestra.
"Iolanthe", sung in English, is a comic tale of Fairies and Nobles vying for power in Victorian England. The story centers around Iolanthe, a fairy who has been banished for marrying a mortal, her son Strephon, who is half fairy and half mortal, his fiancée Phyllis, and her guardian, the Lord Chancellor of England. As in all Gilbert and Sullivan operas, there are lots of absurd situations and plot twists and, of course, a happy ending.
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Pop R'n'B
Friday, May 10, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
The Pop/R’n’B Ensemble is the creation of the NJCU Music Business program. It is dedicated to performing classic “pop” with a focus on rhythm & blues music from the pens of 20th-century tunesmiths whose work ruled the airwaves from the 1960s to the present day.
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