Wynton Marsalis To Headline Performance In Remembrance Of Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial
Legendary jazz musician and composer Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will lead a performance of his epic blues suite, "All Rise (Symphony No. 1)" at 3 p.m. June 6 at the BOK Center in Tulsa, alongside the Tulsa Symphony and Festival Chorus and produced in alliance with the Tulsa Race Massacre Commission.
David Robertson will conduct the performance, and Damien L. Sneed will lead the chorus.
"When I was writing 'All Rise,' Kurt Masur, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, told me, 'The line between civilization and barbarism is much thinner than you think.' That’s why with everything that you do, you have to decry barbarism and the reduction of people." Marsalis said.