By: centraljersey.com
Musician, philanthropist and humanitarian William H. Scheide will celebrate his 97th birthday by sponsoring "Sound Medicine," an All-Mozart concert to benefit Princeton Healthcare System’s "Design for Healing" Campaign. The concert, to be performed by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, will be held on Thursday, Jan. 27, at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium.
In honor of this special occasion, Maestro Mark Laycock will return to Princeton to conduct the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, a leading international ensemble with an outstanding reputation focusing on the Viennese masters and their disciples. The Zurich Chamber Orchestra also collaborates with leading musicians in widely varied genres (jazz, folk, and popular music) and rediscovers forgotten composers to complement a broad repertoire that ranges from baroque to classical and from romantic to contemporary.
Mr. Laycock, Bill Scheide’s longtime friend and preferred conductor, previously directed the Princeton Symphony Orchestra for more than 20 years. He has appeared with the orchestras of London, Paris, Vienna, Lucerne, Prague, Moscow, Kiev, Montreal, Mexico City, Seoul and Taipei, and is currently based in Berlin. The event will also feature Jihye Son, soprano, and Dimitri Ashkenazy, clarinet.
The program will offer the overture to "Cosi Fan Tutte"; the arias "Mia speranza adorata! … Ah non sai qual pena sia" and " No, che non sei capace," the Clarinet Concerto in A Major, the Symphony No. 35 "Haffner," and Mr. Laycock’s arrangement of "Ein Musikalischer Geburtstags Spass" (A Musical Birthday Joke).
"Sound Medicine" will benefit the Princeton HealthCare System’s fundraising campaign, "Design for Healing": The Campaign for the New University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. Bill and Judith Scheide have long been supporters of the Princeton Healthcare System Foundation, having established the Fannie and James A. Floyd Clinic Endowment Fund in 2008 to provide health care for the uninsured and the underinsured through the Outpatient Clinic at the University Medical Center at Princeton.
For more than 90 years, PHCS has cared for the sick, provided health care education to the community, saved lives, and ushered new ones into the world. To ensure continued quality care, PHCS has embarked on a campaign to build a replacement hospital. "Design for Healing" seeks to raise support for the new state-of-the-art facility, featuring single-patient rooms, which will open in 2012 and help PHCS recruit and retain the finest medical staff. Bill Scheide’s annual birthday concerts have become a highlight on the Princeton community calendar, along with the other benefit concerts he and his wife sponsor throughout the year.
Ticket prices range from $35 to $95. For more information, visit www.scheideconcerts.com.
