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PPM to Give Homecoming Performance of 1969 Work for Chorus and Chapel Organ
On June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot by 24-year-old Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Kennedy’s assassination, of course, sent shockwaves through the nation as it grieved the loss of yet another prominent public figure in a decade plagued by such losses. On June 8, 1968, 43-year-old Princeton…
PPM’s season closer: AMERICAN RESONANCE
On Saturday, May 9 at 4 p.m. in the Princeton University Chapel, Princeton Pro Musica will present AMERICAN RESONANCE. This program brings together music by a diverse array of American composers who happened to write music that will sound exceptionally spectacular in the vast and impressive acoustic of the University Chapel. Click here or on the image above to…
FREEDOM WRITERS: What did you think?
We constantly strive to make our concert experiences special for you, our valued patrons. Did you attend FREEDOM WRITERS? We’d love to hear your thoughts! Your participation in this brief audience survey would be so helpful.
Preparing for FREEDOM WRITERS, remembering special educators
As excitement for our Freedom Writers concert ramps up, we are ruminating on the text of Howard Hanson’s Song of Democracy, which quotes Walt Whitman’s “An Old Man’s Thought of School.” As we reflect on Whitman’s words—coincidentally during national Public Schools Week—we think, of course, of our own influential teachers. Below, a handful of Princeton Pro…
Come hear Abigail Adams’s own words
Experience the striking work Letter from Abigail by Julia Wolfe as part of Princeton Pro Musica’s FREEDOM WRITERS concert! >>Click here for tickets<< As the Continental Congress gathered in Philadelphia to attend to the business of the colonies, and to debate the notion of independence, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, and implored him…
Ryan Brandau invites you to FREEDOM WRITERS
On Sunday, March 15 at 4 p.m. in Richardson Auditiorium at Princeton University, Princeton Pro Musica will present FREEDOM WRITERS, the third concert in its 2025-2026 season. Click here or on the image above for an invitation and explanation of what you’ll hear at this performance. We hope you already have tickets, but if not, buy yours today, and we’ll see you there!
A FEAST OF CAROLS: What did you think?
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A FEAST OF CAROLS 2025: Tickets Are Going Quickly!
On Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 4 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University, Princeton Pro Musica will present A FEAST OF CAROLS. Princeton Pro Musica’s signature holiday offering, A FEAST OF CAROLS, brings together the best of the holidays: popular choruses and solos from Handel’s Messiah favorite carols from across the ages…
BACHTOBERFEST! What did you think?
We constantly strive to make our concert experiences special for you, our valued patrons. Did you attend BACHTOBERFEST? We’d love to hear your thoughts! Your participation in this brief audience survey would be so helpful.
Princeton Pro Musica Welcomes Inaugural Conducting Fellow
Princeton Pro Musica welcomes music educator and tenor Josh Lisner back into its tenor section, and congratulates him on his appointment as PPM’s first-ever conducting fellow. Under the guidance of artistic director Ryan Brandau, Lisner will hone his skills as a conductor and rehearsal technician through regular opportunities to lead the chorus. According to Brandau,…