New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at New Jersey Performing Arts Center

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HENRIK NÁNÁSI conductor After making a splash in his superb Metropolitan Opera debut last season, Hungarian conductor Henrik Nánási makes his first NJSO appearance with a masterpiece from his homeland and a favorite Romantic symphony. BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta A daring 20th-century masterpiece! Revel in the sounds of the NJSO strings, accentuated by keyboard and percussion-writing so evocative that Stanley Kubrick famously used it in The Shining. TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 Critics of Tchaikovsky's day crushed this new symphony ("a horde of demons struggling in a torrent of brandy," wrote one), and even the composer said, "It is a failure." But its hypnotic melodies and triumphant mood turned the Fifth into an audience favorite.