Events in Princeton This Week

Tuesday

Did you receive a new iPhone or iPad for the holidays this year? Princeton Public Library staff members Janet Hauge and Erica Bess will share their picks for the best free apps for organizing, traveling, cooking, productivity, and more. Popular social media apps Instagram and Pinterest, as well as apps for library services, will also be highlighted. Princeton Theological Seminary, 7:30 p.m. 

Wednesday

Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce will host a breakfast speech by  Princeton University football coach Bob Surace. He will discuss building a winning program (the Tigers -finished with an 8-2 record this season, sharing the Ivy League title with Harvard after two 1-9 seasons.) Surace '90, was a key member of the 1989 Ivy League champion Princeton football team and  helped Princeton to its biggest turnaround in more than two decades last season. Nassau Club, 7:30-9:15 a.m. 

Everybody has gone mad for kale for a good reason.  If you are eager to get on this healthy, tasty trend, join us and learn all things kale including recipes to entice, satisfy and boost your well-being. Learn the health benefits of kale and some recipes from chef and cooking teacher Nirit Yadin.  The menu includes: Tuscan kale rebollita, kale smoothie, kale sagg paneer nad vegan cream of kale soup. Princeton Public Library, Community Room, 7:30 p.m. 

CBC Business Networking Group will feature a talk by Marshall Calman of Leaderstrong. Congregation Beth Chaim, 7:30 p.m. 

Thursday

Great Inventions that Changed the World” will be the topic of a presentation by James Wei, Dean Emeritus of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University. Jewish Center of Princeton, 10 a.m. 

Fuma Sacra presents its third concert in its “Bach on Thursday” series, a series of free lunchtime concerts featuring the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. Fuma Sacra, one of America’s finest early music vocal ensembles, conducted by Andrew Megill, will be accompanied by an orchestra of period instruments. The concert will feature “Weinen, Klagen, Zorgen, Sagen, one of the earliest of Bach's contatas, three arias, “Ich will den Herren loben allezeit” by Heinrich Schütz and “Fantasia Upon One Note” for strings by Henry Purcell. Trinity Episcopal Church, 12:30 p.m. 

Jon Edwards and David Hua take a fun look back  at four amazing games of chess played during the 19th century. The Romantic Age is famous for music, art, architecture and literature, but chess was also a part of that culture and represent an art form of their own. The games include: Adolf Anderssen v Lionel Kieseritzky (London, 1851), Adolf Anderssen v Jean Dufresne (Berlin, 1852), Paul Morphy v the Duke of Brunswick with Count Isouard in consultation (Paris Opera House, 1858) and Henry Bird v Paul Morphy (London, Match game 5, circa 1858). Princeotn Public Library, Community Room, 6 p.m. 

Friday

New Jersey Symphony presents Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) and the U.S. Premiere of Tan Dun's Earth Concerto. Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, 8 p.m. 

Jennie Avila brings a program of songs based on Antietam-region Civil War stories, letters, and scrapbooks to the Princeton Folk Music Society. The songs cover stories such as a sister’s recollection of her brothers as enemy combatants to an account of the Angel of the Battlefield, Clara Barton. Stephen Wright on ceramic drums and Jan Ansill on violin and mandolin. Christ Congregation Church, 8:15 p.m.