Weekend Picks: Music Rules.

November 8 2007

If you are of a certain age you may have fond memories of singing along to “Two Tickets to Paradise.” Do it again tomorrow, when Eddie Money rocks the House of Blues in Atlantic City (www.hob.com). And if you are that certain age, you may have teens who know the band Dashboard Confessional. Be nice and take them to their House of Blues concert Saturday. Shows go off at 8 p.m., $28.50-$32.50.

Down in Cape May the music this weekend is cool, hot, bebop, swing: it’s the 28th annual Cape May Jazz Festival, Friday through Sunday. Headliners include the Duke Ellington Orchestra and Pieces of a Dream, “the quintessential favorites” of the festival, organizers say. $25–$150, www.capemayjazz.com.

Classical music lovers have several options. The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra is at NJPAC playing Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 and Dvorák’s Violin Concerto, Friday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m., $22-$80. Tonight, the NJSO is playing the same two pieces at the State Theater in New Brunswick—it’s the climax of Rhapsody in Brew, which starts with a happy hour and complimentary hors d’oeuvres for young professionals at Harvest Moon Brewery, down the block from the theater. More info and tickets ($25) at www.njsymphony.org.

There’s also the Manhattan Brass Quintet playing music from the 1600’s through today at the Shakespeare Theatre’s Main Stage on the campus of Drew University, Saturday, 11 a.m. The concert features a demonstration of brass instruments, including bugle, piccolo and horn. $5-$12, www.ShakespeareNJ.org.

Opera lovers can listen big, or listen small. Big is Saturday evening at 8, when NJPAC hosts a production of Puccini’s Tosca by Teatro Liricio d’ Europa, one of Europe’s most celebrated touring opera companies. $23-$89, www.njpac.org.

Small is Sunday 2 p.m., when Rutgers’ Zimmerli Museum (www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu) in New Brunswick opens its Opera Master Classes to audiences, featuring performers from the New Jersey Opera Theater working with young artists. $3.00 for adults, free for Rutgers students and kids.

And if you love music from the Portuguese-speaking world — or just want to learn about it — performers from both sides of the Atlantic are around this weekend. The Brasil Guitar Duo (www.concertartists.org/brasil_bio.htm) melds classical guitar techniques with traditional Brazilian music at the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts (www.metc.org) in Madison, Friday at 8 p.m., $5-$12.

Or bring a box of tissues to hear Cristina Branco (www.cristinabranco.com) sing melancholy, mournful Portuguese fados. It’s Friday, 7:30 p.m., at Kean University’s Wilkins Theatre—sad songs to start a happy weekend.

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