For Immediate Release 

Contact:         Suzé DiPietro
                        Performing Arts Center Manager
                        Galloway, N.J. 08205
                        Suze.DiPietro@stockton.edu
                        (609) 652-4927 

Galloway, N.J. - The Bay Atlantic Symphony will perform selections by Prokofiev and Mendelssohn at the Stockton Performing Arts Center on Sunday, May 7.  “Conversation with the Conductor,” Jed Gaylin, will be held in the L-Wing Gallery at 1 p.m.

Show time is 2 p.m.  Tickets are $32 and may be ordered online at stockton.edu/pac or by calling the Box Office at (609) 652-9000.  The Box Office is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 90 minutes before the performance. 

Folklore is the watchword for this colorful panoply of dance and melody. Young superstar violinist Luosha Fang, of Curtis Institute of Music, joins the Bay-Atlantic Symphony for Prokofiev’s treacherous Second Concerto ending in a diabolically warped witch’s dance. Just as fiery is the conclusion to Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, featuring a scorpion-stung tarantella. Amidst all the adrenaline are some of the most haunting melodies from any continent.

The Bay Atlantic Symphony, Stockton’s ‘Orchestra-in-Residence,’ will perform the following selections:

Glinka Kamarinskaya; Fantasy for Orchestra on Two Russian Folksongs

Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2

Luosha Fang

Intermission

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4, Italian

For patrons with special needs, the Stockton Performing Arts Center offers wheelchair- accessible seating, large-type programs, and listening-assistive devices.  Please identify any needs you may have when making a reservation.

The Stockton Performing Arts Center, the Jersey Shore’s Center for the Arts, is located on the campus of Stockton University, 101 Vera King Farris Drive, just off Jimmie Leeds Road in Galloway, N.J.  Just 12 miles west of Atlantic City, the center is easily accessible from the Garden State Parkway and the Atlantic City Expressway. 

This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.