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...find it challenging to compose for an orchestra instead of a jazz band? Yes. The most difficult thing is that we play two different languages. It's really difficult to orchestrate and to know what will get what effect out of the orchestra. I'm continuing to work on it because I'm a great fan of classical music. I've played a lot of it. I grew up listening to it. But that's very different from writing it. (Read "Wynton Marsalis: Horns of Plenty...
Wynton Marsalis is already the most renowned jazz musician of his generation. Now, he's trying out a new musical style: mixing classical with the blues. On Nov. 19, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will premier Blues Symphony, Marsalis' first work composed exclusively for orchestra. It celebrates the blues through moments in American history and, in Marsalis' words, "incorporates the call-and-responses, train whistles, stomp-down grooves, big-city complexities and down-home idiosyncrasies of Afro-American and American music." Ahead of the symphony's premiere, the jazz master spoke with TIME about working with an orchestra, the significance...
This characteristically absurd plot requires an adroit handling of Sullivan’s appealing music, which Music Director Jesse C. Wong ’12 provides admirably. The orchestra plays with real verve, supporting the singers while maintaining a strong presence. The six-person chorus, too, sings well and energetically...
...professional violin soloist and a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, has been assisting Mike with the technical aspects of the violin part. “It’s been a unique perspective seeing the piece come together because usually I will play pieces that have been written already,” she said...
...show also featured Dartmouth’s own musical medley, and a world premiere of a wind orchestra setting of the classic jazz song, “I Remember Clifford,” written by saxophonist Benny Golson. Thomas Everett, the Director of Band since 1971, was commissioned to arrange the Golson piece for a wind chamber group ensemble, and chose the occasion of the Montage concert to debut the piece...