Community Calendar

Wednesday, June 18 at 3pm & 7pm – Early music ensemble The Sebastians returns to the Princeton Festival with another stellar program in beautiful Trinity Church, featuring works by Corelli, Telemann, Vivaldi, Galuppi, and Handel. Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ. Tickets: start at $50 (children 5-17 accompanied by an adult receive a 50% discount); Digital programs, wheelchair accessible. Additional accommodations or services can be arranged with two weeks’ notice—contact mgodbole@princetonsymphony.org; For tickets: princetonsymphony.org/festival or 609-497-0020.

Gregory D. McDaniel conductor
New Jersey Symphony

Enjoy the sounds of your New Jersey Symphony under the stars! This free program features a medley of timeless classics, Broadway themes and patriotic favorites the whole family will love.

The Symphony kicks off the summer outdoor series at Marine Park in Red Bank, where fans can watch the concert while enjoying the beautiful sights of the Navesink River.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute
Florence Price “Silk Hat and a Walking Cane” from Dances in the Canebrakes
Béla Bartók Romanian Folk Dances
Gioachino Rossini Overture to William Tell
Richard Rodgers Carousel Waltz
Duke Ellington / arr. Custer Duke Ellington!
Various Composers / arr. Ricketts Satchmo!
Stephen Schwartz / arr. Ricketts Highlights from Wicked
Various Composers / arr. Lowden Armed Forces Salute

Rain location: Count Basie Center for the Arts, 99 Monmouth St, Red Bank, NJ 07701

Wednesday, June 18 at 3pm & 7pm – Early music ensemble The Sebastians returns to the Princeton Festival with another stellar program in beautiful Trinity Church, featuring works by Corelli, Telemann, Vivaldi, Galuppi, and Handel. Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ. Tickets: start at $50 (children 5-17 accompanied by an adult receive a 50% discount); Digital programs, wheelchair accessible. Additional accommodations or services can be arranged with two weeks’ notice—contact mgodbole@princetonsymphony.org; For tickets: princetonsymphony.org/festival or 609-497-0020.

Princeton Ballet School (PBS) is now enrolling for Fall 2025! With locations in Princeton, Cranbury, and New Brunswick, PBS offers children's dance, pre-professional training, and adult classes in ballet, contemporary, flamenco, tap, and more. Classes are available for all ages and levels, including drop-in Open Enrollment options, and features live music in every studio. Everyone is welcome!

PBS also offers its award winning DANCE POWER program in partnership with the New Brunswick Public Schools, Dance for Parkinson's, Audrey's Class for younger dancers with differing abilities, and performance opportunities, such as the option to participate in American Repertory Ballet’s celebrated annual production of The Nutcracker.

Thursday, June 19, 4pm – The Motown Sound – Dr. Rochelle Ellis will trace the origins of Motown and how this distinctive sound affected American pop music, spotlighting some of the major groups on the Motown label in advance of the ticketed evening concert, Masters of Soul. Stockton Education Center, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ. Free and open to the public; call 609-497-0020 or visit: princetonsymphony.org/festival. Wheelchair accessible. Additional accommodations or services can be arranged with two weeks’ notice—contact Mika at mgodbole@princetonsymphony.org.

Dates, times, artists, and programs subject to change.

Thursday, June 19 at 7pm - The performers of Masters of Soul bring back Motown in an electrifying concert featuring incredible harmonies and smooth moves made famous by legendary artists such as Gladys Knight, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, James Brown and more! Festival Performance Pavilion at Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ. Tickets: start at $35 (children 5-17 accompanied by an adult receive a 50% discount); Digital programs, wheelchair accessible. Additional accommodations or services can be arranged with two weeks’ notice—contact mgodbole@princetonsymphony.org; For tickets: princetonsymphony.org/festival or 609-497-0020.

Princeton Ballet School (PBS) is now enrolling for Fall 2025! With locations in Princeton, Cranbury, and New Brunswick, PBS offers children's dance, pre-professional training, and adult classes in ballet, contemporary, flamenco, tap, and more. Classes are available for all ages and levels, including drop-in Open Enrollment options, and features live music in every studio. Everyone is welcome!

PBS also offers its award winning DANCE POWER program in partnership with the New Brunswick Public Schools, Dance for Parkinson's, Audrey's Class for younger dancers with differing abilities, and performance opportunities, such as the option to participate in American Repertory Ballet’s celebrated annual production of The Nutcracker.

Friday, June 20 at 7pm - Internationally-renowned duo Daniel Rowland, violin and Maja Bogdanović, cello, join an ensemble of PSO musicians for this scintillating program highlighting works by Antonio Vivaldi, Osvaldo Golijov, and Max Richter. Festival Performance Pavilion at Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ. Tickets: start at $35 (children 5-17 accompanied by an adult receive a 50% discount); Digital programs, wheelchair accessible. Additional accommodations or services can be arranged with two weeks’ notice—contact mgodbole@princetonsymphony.org; For tickets: princetonsymphony.org/festival or 609-497-0020.

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), in partnership with “one of the nation’s most intriguing opera companies (The New York Times),” Odyssey Opera, presents the New England premiere of Frederick Douglass at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. This opera, composed in three acts by prominent 20th-century Black composer Ulysses Kay, features a libretto by Donald Dorr and centers on a fictionalized account of the final year of the renowned Black abolitionist and statesman. Conducted by Gil Rose, this concert version showcases the full BMOP orchestra along with several of today’s leading vocalists, including bassist Kenneth Kellogg (Detroit Opera, Seattle Opera) in the lead role of Douglass.

Princeton Ballet School (PBS) is now enrolling for Fall 2025! With locations in Princeton, Cranbury, and New Brunswick, PBS offers children's dance, pre-professional training, and adult classes in ballet, contemporary, flamenco, tap, and more. Classes are available for all ages and levels, including drop-in Open Enrollment options, and features live music in every studio. Everyone is welcome!

PBS also offers its award winning DANCE POWER program in partnership with the New Brunswick Public Schools, Dance for Parkinson's, Audrey's Class for younger dancers with differing abilities, and performance opportunities, such as the option to participate in American Repertory Ballet’s celebrated annual production of The Nutcracker.