To the Editor:

Seventeen days of performing arts events flew by during June’s 2023 Princeton Festival. Many thanks to the thousands who turned out in droves to take in our opera, dance, musical theater, chamber, pops, and orchestral concerts at beautiful Morven Museum & Garden.

It takes the cooperation of multiple organizations and administrators to make an endeavor on the scale of the Princeton Festival possible. We are incredibly thankful to the following organizations and their dedicated staff members for their help in ensuring the success of this year’s Festival: Morven Museum & Garden, Trinity Church, Princeton Mayor Mark Freda, the Municipality of Princeton, and the Princeton Festival Guild.

We’d also like to express our appreciation for the buzz-about-town generated by Experience Princeton, the Princeton Public Library, McCarter Theatre Center, American Repertory Ballet, the Princeton University Office of Community and Regional Affairs, and local businesses. 

Multiple shops and restaurants showed support by displaying our banner, posters, and Festival restaurant maps, and by sharing event information via email and social media. A special thank you to all of the restaurants that offered prix fixe menus throughout the Festival, and to those businesses that partnered with us on site to create such a welcoming atmosphere.

Above all, we’re thankful to be holding our annual performing arts Festival at Morven Museum & Garden, in the arts-loving town of Princeton!

Marc Uys
Executive Director, Princeton Symphony Orchestra
Ewing Street