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Arts at Rider/Westminster Performs Offers Rich Array of Programs

Rider’s students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the University's external community, can choose from a wide range of arts programs in the coming year. Activities on both campuses range from choral concerts and solo recitals, opera, musical theater, chamber music, dance and art exhibits.

The season brochure is now available on both campuses. Or check the Web site at www.rider.edu/arts. Be sure to listen to the first podcast that offers a season preview presented by WWFM radio host Bliss Michelson.

Rider University faculty, staff and students receive free or discounted tickets for many events. Watch your mail for details about the ticket policy for campus events.

The 2006-2007 year is Dr. Joe Miller’s first season as Westminster’s director of choral activities, and he has planned two extraordinary programs for his inaugural concerts. On Friday, October 20 he will conduct the 175-voice Westminster Symphonic Choir in a concert entitled “Beginnings and Endings” that will focus on the universal themes of journey, light, love and life. The concert will be presented in Saint Paul’s Roman Catholic Church on Nassau Street in Princeton, N.J.

On Saturday, November 11, Dr. Miller will conduct the 32-voice Westminster Choir in a performance of Maurice Duruflé’s magnificent Requiem, as well as works by Bach, Tormis, Poulenc, Mantyjärvi and Kverno. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Bristol Chapel on the Westminster campus.

Westminster will also celebrate the opening of the new Princeton High School Performing Arts Center on Saturday, October 14 by participating in a day-long arts festival at the high school and along Walnut Lane. The festival will include tours of the new facility, performances by the Westminster Chapel Choir and the Westminster Symphonic Choir. Community organizations will present arts-related activities in booths on Walnut Lane, which will be closed for the day. The alumni office is also hosting an Alumni Fall Festival on the Westminster campus in conjunction with the high school opening. To learn more about the alumni events, go to http://www.rider.edu/891_2366.htm.