EC Summer Players Orchestra to put on Aug. 4 free concert

EC Summer Players Orchestra to put on Aug. 4 free concert

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Essex County Summer Players Orchestra will have its 19th annual free summer  concert on Sunday, Aug. 4, at 3 p.m. at Livingston High School, 30 Robert Harp Drive, Livingston. Nate White will lead the orchestra in playing the music of Otto Nicolai, Hubert Parry and Antonin Dvorak.  The orchestra consists of members […]

LSO to present Halloween ‘Spooktacular’

LIVINGSTON, NJ — The Livingston Symphony Orchestra is presenting a Halloween “Spooktacular” concert and film on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m. at Mt. Pleasant Middle School Auditorium, 11 Broadlawn Drive, Livingston. The highlight of the evening is the showing of the 1931 Boris Karloff film “Frankenstein,” with the orchestra providing a live soundtrack. The […]

‘1001 Nights’ with LSO

LIVINGSTON, NJ — “Open Sesame” to the musical magic of the Livingston Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m., at the Livingston High School Auditorium, 30 Robert Harp Drive. Master storyteller and conductor Anthony LaGruth leads the orchestra and audience from Cherubini’s playful “Ali Baba Overture” through Rimsky-Korsakov’s dazzling “Scheherazade.” Highlights of this […]

LSO shows how a symphony is made in family show

LIVINGSTON, NJ — We’ve all heard Beethoven’s “Fifth Symphony” with its monumental opening four notes and enjoyed the captivating melodies from Bizet’s most enchanting opera “Carmen.” Yet how did these artists go about creating such lasting and memorable works of art? Visit “The Composer’s Toolbox,” this year’s Livingston Symphony Orchestra Family Concert, on Sunday, Jan. […]

Livingston Symphony Orchestra presents ‘Fall Fantasy’

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Maestro Anthony LaGruth and the Livingston Symphony Orchestra will present “An Evening of Fantasy” on Saturday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the Livingston High School Auditorium, 30 Robert Harp Drive, Livingston  The first performance in the orchestra’s 2017-2018 season, the concert features works from Rick Ippolito, John Barry and E. Humperdinck, […]

LSO to perform with young artist

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Maestro Anthony LaGruth and the Livingston Symphony Orchestra will perform their season finale concert Saturday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m. The fifth performance in the orchestra’s 2016-2017 season, the concert features their statewide Young Artist Concerto Competition winner, Asher Wulfman of West Orange, in a performance of Mendelssohn’s lyric Violin Concerto, Verdi’s […]

Lights, camera … music!

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Maestro Anthony LaGruth and the Livingston Symphony Orchestra invite you to join them for their upcoming family concert, “A Night at the Movies,” on Saturday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. at Livingston High School, 30 Robert Harp Drive in Livingston. A celebratory salute to the music of the silver screen, the program […]

LSO presents ‘Music that Tells a Great Story’

LIVINGSTON, NJ — An upcoming concert program by Anthony LaGruth and the Livingston Symphony Orchestra will include time-honored works by Rossini, Mendelssohn and Prokofiev, and features a world premiere of a composition by Ting Ho of Montclair State University. The show, “Music that Tells a Great Story,” will be Saturday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. […]

LSO concert set for Dec. 17

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Maestro Anthony LaGruth and the Livingston Symphony Orchestra invite you to join them on Saturday, Dec. 17, at 7:30 p.m. for their winter concert at Livingston High School Auditorium, 30 Robert Harp Drive, Livingston . The second performance in the orchestra’s 2016-2017 season, the concert includes works from venerated composers such as […]

LSO to kick off season with eclectic program

LIVINGSTON, NJ — In his second season opener as musical director and conductor of the Livingston Symphony Orchestra, maestro Anthony LaGruth has chosen a diverse musical program from the vivacious and stately to the diabolical and dramatic with Kabalevsky’s “Overture to Colas Breugnon,” Mozart’s “Haffner Symphony,” Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” and Franck’s “Symphony in […]