Led by trumpeter/composer Wynton Marsalis and featuring seven of jazz’s finest soloists, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet’s performance of The Democracy! Suite inspires and uplifts with the full vigor, vision, and depth of America’s music.
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The La Jolla Music Society’s 2020-21 season will go on at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center but with livestreamed concerts replacing the performances in front of live audiences that were originally scheduled to take place between this month and late June.
At least five of those performances, including by 21-year-old cello prodigy Zlatomir Fung and piano star Yefim Bronfman, will be livestreamed sans audience from The Conrad’s 513-seat Baker Baum Concert Hall. A few will be streamed from other locations, including the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago.
The move to an entirely online format for the La Jolla performances was prompted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which in March led to the shuttering of The Conrad and countless other venues across the globe.
The nonprofit arts organization's digital season will include new online performances by Wynton Marsalis, Joffrey Ballet, Alisa Weilerstein, Sonia De Los Santos and more
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NPR Music s Tiny Desk series will celebrate Black History Month by featuring four weeks of Tiny Desk (home) concerts and playlists by Black artists spanning different genres and generations each week. The lineup includes both emerging and established artists who will be performing a Tiny Desk concert for the first time. This celebration highlights the beautiful cornucopia of Black music and our special way of presenting it. We hope you enjoy.
Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet recorded their Tiny Desk (home) concert at Dizzy s Club, or what they call the house of swing. It begins with Sloganize, Patronize, Realize, Revolutionize (Black Lives Matters), a bold statement about humanity and the consequences of racism. Marsalis says this piece as well as the rest of the music on his new album,
The saxophonist with New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra breathed a sigh of relief along with millions of others when President Joe Biden took office Jan. 20, but he expects even more of an outpouring when the impact of COVID-19 finally begins to wane. “I think the sigh will blossom into an expressive cry,” Nash said with a laugh in an interview Wednesday with the Times Colonist. If the pandemic hadn’t come crashing down on his plans, Nash, 60, would have been busy during the past year both on his own as a bandleader and with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. With gatherings cancelled, however, his performance schedule was whittled down to almost nothing over the summer, save for a few outdoor gigs and a late September concert recording that will be presented Tuesday by the Victoria Jazz Society.