Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra To Open its 2018 – 2019 Season on November 18th

With a Program Featuring Weber, Bruch and Beethoven

Music director Israel Herman will open the Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra’s 86th season on Sunday, November 18th, at 3 pm with a program including Carl Maria von Weber’s Overture to Oberon,the Violin Concerto No. 1 of Max Bruch, featuring internationally known violin soloist Susan Heerema, and the Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 (Pastoral). The concert will be held at the Bloomfield Middle School auditorium, 60 Huck Road in Bloomfield, NJ.

The Bruch violin concerto will feature the accomplished violinist Susan Heerema– a New Jersey resident who is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and who has performed as violin soloist since age 9 and Concertmaster since age 11 with a long list of distinguished orchestras. She has travelled internationally and has played under the baton of Yehudi Menuhin, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Mstislav Rostropovich. She has appeared on a variety of television shows with David Letterman and Conan O’Brien and has recorded on labels with Doc Severnson, Aretha Franklin, and Tony Bennett. She has performed all the major violin concertos.

Tickets are available online at www.bloomfieldsymphony.org or at the door – adults $153, students and seniors $11, children under 12 are admitted free.

The Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra is currently celebrating its 86th season – its 19th under the baton of music director and conductor, Israel “Buzz” Herman. The maestro has over 50 years of conducting experience, is an active classical and Dixieland trumpeter, and former host of the weekly, syndicated program On the Wind. He is regularly heard on New Jersey’s only professional public radio station devoted exclusively to classical music, The Classical Network, broadcast out of Trenton on WWFM, 89.2 FM, and streamed live online at www.WWFM.org.

CONTACT: Thom van Aken, (201) 675-3789

tvanaken@bloomfieldsymphony.org