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Princeton Summer Theater Presents Award-Winning “Proof,” A Mystery Romance To Delight Mathematicians (and Others)
Donald Gilpin
The proof in question, in Princeton Summer Theater’s current production of the 2000 drama Proof, concerns a theorem about prime numbers that mathematicians have tried in vain to verify for thousands of years. The elaborate proof is found among the notebooks of the recently deceased University of Chicago professor Robert (Geoff Peterson), renowned as a genius who revolutionized modern mathematics before going insane in the last years of his life. But who wrote that proof? Was it Robert or his 25-year-old daughter Catherine (Nicole Kontolefa), who sacrificed years of her life and risked her own sanity to care for her beloved mentally ill father?
Westminster Choir College Choral Festival Cools Summer Heat With Mozart and Britten
Nancy Plum
The Westminster Choir College Summer Sessions provide good insight into how choral musicians spend their summer vacations. Some come to Princeton for a week to brush up on their conducting or singing skills; some come to try their hands at something new. Each summer, one of these weeks is devoted to compiling a hopefully balanced choir to explore one or two choral masterpieces in depth, resulting in a public performance. This year, fifty or so singers came to the campus to spend an intense week rehearsing Mozart's immortal Requiem, along with the more unusual Cantata Misericordium of Benjamin Britten, conducted by Joseph Flummerfelt.
