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Wynton Marsalis & Dr. Ronald Crutcher to Keynote at Future of Music Faculty Fellowship
The Cleveland Institute of Music’s Future of Music Faculty Fellowship has added internationally acclaimed musician, composer and educator Wynton Marsalis, and national leader in higher education and distinguished classical musician Dr. Ronald Crutcher to the already impressive list of keynote speakers and faculty for the inaugural program. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra pack the house, and the ears
The second of two area concerts by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis was a hybrid affair, with a rather brief intermission separating a tribute to Duke Ellington by JLCO’s 16 players and a performance by the combined forces of the JLCO and the Cleveland Orchestra, led by William Eddins, of Marsalis’ “Swing Symphony.” The result was certainly a feast of music, even if there was more of it than an audience could digest at a single setting. Keep reading »
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Marsalis delivers a big-bang world-beat on Clevaland’s `Congo Square’
Worlds collided to wonderful effect when trumpeter Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and percussionist Yacub Addy’s Odadaa! ensemble shared the stage Monday evening at Playhouse Square’s Allen Theatre.
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