Tribute to Wynton Marsalis & J@LC Grand Opening
Monday, October 18, 2004
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(Wynton Marsalis (Keith Major))
We celebrate today’s grand opening of Frederick P. Rose Hall, the new home of Jazz at Lincoln Center and pay tribute to Artistic Director, Wynton Marsalis, with two salvos...
Marsalis’s own ‘Happy March’ from his “A Fiddler’s Tale” begins our evening, the composer on trumpet, performing with and leading the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Then he solos in Jeremiah Clarke’s “The King’s March”: hail to King Wynton! Hour one also honors Lotte Lenya, who—though born this day way back in 1898remains ever young and alive in memory. We hear her sing a medley from Kurt Weill’s “Mahagonny”in a historic recording. Another inimitable performer, pianist Van Cliburn, favors us with Chopin’s Scherzo in B-flat Minor.
Our second hour brings Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, soprano Kiri Te Kanawa soloing. The Boston comes to Carnegie Hall under our very own James Levine, its new music director and conductor in October 25th, playing Mahler’s Eighth. Check it out!
In the last half of the evening, hear an inspired performance Palestrina’s “Missa pro defunctus” by the vocal group Chanticleer, followed by the RIAS Chamber Choir performing Poulenc’s “Exultate Deo” and “Salve Regina” under director Marcus Creed.
For a complete change of pace, it’s “Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ” by Steve Reich, who plays marimba and leads a bunch of enthusiastic musicians in a definitive rendition. And stayed tuned for Brahm’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” recorded by the Cleveland Orchestra on that great maestro, George Szell.
Marsalis’s own ‘Happy March’ from his “A Fiddler’s Tale” begins our evening, the composer on trumpet, performing with and leading the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Then he solos in Jeremiah Clarke’s “The King’s March”: hail to King Wynton! Hour one also honors Lotte Lenya, who—though born this day way back in 1898remains ever young and alive in memory. We hear her sing a medley from Kurt Weill’s “Mahagonny”in a historic recording. Another inimitable performer, pianist Van Cliburn, favors us with Chopin’s Scherzo in B-flat Minor.
Our second hour brings Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, soprano Kiri Te Kanawa soloing. The Boston comes to Carnegie Hall under our very own James Levine, its new music director and conductor in October 25th, playing Mahler’s Eighth. Check it out!
In the last half of the evening, hear an inspired performance Palestrina’s “Missa pro defunctus” by the vocal group Chanticleer, followed by the RIAS Chamber Choir performing Poulenc’s “Exultate Deo” and “Salve Regina” under director Marcus Creed.
For a complete change of pace, it’s “Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ” by Steve Reich, who plays marimba and leads a bunch of enthusiastic musicians in a definitive rendition. And stayed tuned for Brahm’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” recorded by the Cleveland Orchestra on that great maestro, George Szell.
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