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Detroit Symphony Orchestra Releases New Recording of Wynton Marsalis’s Blues Symphony
Led by DSO Music Director Jader Bignamini in His Commercial Recording Debut, Marsalis’s Seven-Movement Work Gives a Symphonic Identity to the Form and Feeling of the Blues. Keep reading »
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra cuts jazz groove on Wynton Marsalis ‘Blues Symphony’ album
For its first album recording in nearly a decade, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra set out to make a statement. So it locked its sights onto something especially rich and meaningful: One year ago this month, music director Jader Bignamini led the DSO in three performances of Wynton Marsalis’ musically imaginative, historically dynamic “Blues Symphony” as an audio team captured the concerts live inside Orchestra Hall. Keep reading »
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TIME IN with Wynton Marsalis and The Blues: Finding Optimism In Tumultuous Times
For Wynton Marsalis, music and life have been intertwined since he was a child growing up in a family of musicians in New Orleans, including his late father, pianist Ellis Marsalis, and brothers saxophonist Branford, drummer Jason, and trombonist Delfeayo. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis and the “Blues Symphony” | Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
I had the chance to sit down with virtually with the legendary Wynton Marsalis for a conversation about Jazz, comparing jazz and classical pieces, why so many classical composers writing jazz Keep reading »
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Announcing Blues Symphony (Symphony No. 2), recording of Wynton Marsalis’s second Symphony
Today, Blue Engine Records releases the first recording of Blues Symphony (Symphony No. 2), an innovative and colossal work from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Wynton Marsalis. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis symphony at Philadelphia Orchestra an aerobic workout that inspired fight and flight
Such was the terse introduction by guest conductor Cristian Macelaru at the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Saturday outing with Wynton Marsalis’ Blues Symphony. More couldn’t credibly be said prior to the rambunctious, seven-movement, hour-long, high-traffic, multi-genre, multi-everything monster of a symphony that could well have devoured the Kimmel Center and the rest of Philadelphia along with it. Keep reading »
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Exploring American history with musician and composer Wynton Marsalis
See what happens when jazz and blues meet classical composition during the Philadelphia Orchestra’s limited run of Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winner Wynton Marsalis’s symphony. The seven movements paint scenes from important points throughout American history with evolving sounds and rhythm. Keep reading »
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Maestro Cristian Măcelaru leads the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra in two of Marsalis’ celebrated compositions
Closing night is dedicated to American legend Wynton Marsalis, one of the most accomplished and acclaimed artists and composers of his generation. Marsalis has helped propel jazz to the forefront of contemporary American culture through his performances, recordings, compositions, educational efforts, and his visionary artistic leadership of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Keep reading »
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Students, faculty reflect on lessons from Wynton Marsalis’ visit
Intense. Approachable. Wise. Those were among the impressions several Cornell faculty and students have from a week spent with jazz musician and educator Wynton Marsalis, on campus March 22-28 for his first extended visit as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis to mentor, perform during Cornell visit March 22-28
Famed musician Wynton Marsalis comes to Cornell next week for his first visit as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large, to mentor and perform with student musicians, participate in classes and engage with the campus and Ithaca communities. Keep reading »