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Music School Festival Orchestra students take stage with Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for second evening of Wynton Marsalis’ seminal work
When playing his part in Wynton Marsalis’ “All Rise,” the word that comes to mind for School of Music student Angel Ruiz is “community.” It’s a word relevant to more than just tonight’s performance — Marsalis’ work aims to translate our differences through music, creating a cohesive future built of collaboration in a rapidly developing global community. Keep reading »
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PBS and Chautauqua Institution Announce CHAUTAUQUA AT 150: WYNTON MARSALIS’ ALL RISE
Today at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, PBS and Chautauqua Institution announced the production of a new one-hour documentary film, CHAUTAUQUA AT 150: WYNTON MARSALIS’ ALL RISE, to air on PBS in early 2025. Keep reading »
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Musician Wynton Marsalis: A good fortune
Wynton Marsalis jumps onto our Zoom call and introduces himself before proceeding to play the trumpet. “I was just playing the trumpet call,” he says. “That was just for you.” Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis’ “All Rise” stirred souls at Hill Auditorium - and his trumpet fired up The Big House crowd
More than 200 musicians are shown rehearsing Wynton Marsalis’ “All Rise” on stage at Hill Auditorium. Photo courtesy UMS. For nearly two decades, I’ve attended Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis concerts hosted by the University Music Society (UMS). Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise Takes on New Meaning at the Hollywood Bowl
You’ve heard of the I “everything but the kitchen sink”? That pretty much describes Wynton Marsalis’s sprawling, 112-minute orchestral/choral/big band/small-group extravaganza All Rise. Keep reading »
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Review: Wynton Marsalis, Tulsa Symphony and singers ‘All Rise’ to cornucopia of musical styles
Wynton Marsalis may not have written his first symphony in response to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. But one would be hard-pressed to think of a more appropriate way officially to conclude the city of Tulsa’s commemoration of this tragedy than with a performance of this epic work. Keep reading »
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Art of disappearing: Conductor of Wynton Marsalis’ ‘All Rise’ performance on making music, telling stories
The fact that Robertson’s job is conducting orchestras, whether on the concert stage, from the opera pit or in the classroom, where the person holding the baton appears to be the center of everyone’s attention, makes this statement sound disingenuous. Keep reading »
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Tulsa Symphony, Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center to Perform in Remembrance of Tulsa Race Massacre 100th Anniversary
On the somber occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the Tulsa Symphony and Festival Chorus will join forces with world-renowned trumpeter, composer, educator and bandleader Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to present All Rise (Symphony No. 1), Marsalis’ epic blues suite that “was written themes of unity and spiritual ascendance.” Keep reading »
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All Rise: Strathmore’s Most Ambitious Production of the Season
The rehearsal for Strathmore’s biggest production of the 2016-2017 season is going smoothly—for the most part. During a break between movements, conductor William Eddins chastises the choir for seeming distracted. “Tomorrow,” he says, “I want all eyes on me.” Keep reading »
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Notes of Resistance: Wynton Marsalis on ‘All Rise’
The first performance of “All Rise,” Wynton Marsalis‘s epic and extraordinary jazz symphony, didn’t quite go as planned. “It sounded so bad that first night,” Marsalis sighs, recalling the December 1999 premiere at Lincoln Center. “It was like I was in the middle of a bunch of noise. I felt like I had inflicted a crime on about two hundred people in public.” Keep reading »