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Wynton Marsalis’s New ‘Swing Symphony’ is Brave, Even Heroic
The New York Philharmonic opened its new season this week with the American premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s “Swing Symphony,” a grand, sweeping work elementally disconnected from the world we live in, and its essential indifference to the era of its creation is one the composition’s uncommon attributes. Keep reading »
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New York Diarist: Strength in Swing
Immediately following the landing of Hurricane Katrina, I received hundreds of phone calls from all over the world. They offered sympathy and resources. I don’t get those phone calls now. The ones I receive now are rife with disgust at bureaucratic fumbling, with rage at an unspecified they who are in charge of everything from predicting which levees would break to choosing which people will return. They made it happen.
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