{"id":217335,"date":"2026-04-30T10:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/?p=217335"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:51:33","slug":"montclair-state-university-chorale-earns-glowing-review-for-new-jersey-symphony-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/2026\/04\/30\/montclair-state-university-chorale-earns-glowing-review-for-new-jersey-symphony-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Montclair State University Chorale Earns Glowing Review for New Jersey Symphony Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"287\">The Montclair State University Chorale joined the New Jersey Symphony for a powerful performance of Mozart\u2019s <em data-start=\"208\" data-end=\"217\">Requiem<\/em>, earning high praise in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njarts.net\/nj-symphony-msu-chorale-bring-clarity-and-balance-to-music-by-mozart-mahler-and-faure\/\">NJArts.net<\/a> review by Courtney Smith.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"289\" data-end=\"477\">The reviewed concert took place <strong data-start=\"321\" data-end=\"359\">April 16, 2026, at NJPAC in Newark<\/strong>, with additional performances on <strong data-start=\"393\" data-end=\"414\">April 18 at NJPAC<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"419\" data-end=\"476\">April 19 at State Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"479\" data-end=\"769\">Smith praised the collaboration for its \u201cclarity and balance\u201d and highlighted the Chorale\u2019s artistry under the direction of Heather J. Buchanan. Following the concert, she shared with New Jersey Symphony staff that the performance was \u201coutstanding\u201d and \u201cthe best Mozart Requiem I\u2019ve heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"771\" data-end=\"997\">The program, led by New Jersey Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang, featured music by Faur\u00e9, Mahler and Mozart, bringing Montclair State students together with professional musicians on one of New Jersey\u2019s major concert stages.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"771\" data-end=\"997\">Read the full review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njarts.net\/nj-symphony-msu-chorale-bring-clarity-and-balance-to-music-by-mozart-mahler-and-faure\/\">NJArts.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montclair State University Chorale joined the New Jersey Symphony for a powerful performance of Mozart\u2019s Requiem, earning high praise in a recent NJArts.net review by Courtney Smith. The reviewed concert took place April 16, 2026, at NJPAC in Newark, with additional performances on April 18 at NJPAC and April 19 at State Theatre New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":217336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217337,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217335\/revisions\/217337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}