Intro with Leonard Slatkin - Nutcracker Swing (Part 1)

December 13th, 2001
This is a Live From Lincoln Center special called “Nutcracker Swing” featuring both the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Slatkin, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis that originally aired on PBS in December, 2001

The NY Philharmonic played a section from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker followed by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra playing the Ellington/Strayhorn arrangement of the same section.
The special started with four sections from Wyton Marsalis’ “All Rise,” introduced here by Leonard Slatkin.

• December 13th, 2001
• Category: Concerts
• Series: Nutcracker Swing

Related Album:
All Rise