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Our guest is the highly regarded American conductor and music director, David Robertson. He ll be holding the baton at the BOK Center this weekend, as the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra joins forces with Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and a festival choir to perform All Rise (Symphony No. 1), an epic blues suite composed by Marsalis that will take place Sunday, June 6th, at 3pm. This very special concert offering a massive and stirring work on the theme of spiritual transcendence is being presented on the somber occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. For more on this concert, including how to get tickets, please visit the TSO website.
Actor, comedian and singer Wayne Brady. (Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP)
Wayne Brady (Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP)
Wayne Brady (Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP)
Published June 04. 2021 4:39PM | Updated June 04. 2021 6:23PM
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For years, Wayne Brady had been working on a one-man show about being a young Black man growing up in Orlando, but he could never finish the project.
That’s until acclaimed actor Glenn Close asked him to participate in her spoken word jazz album.
“To be honest with you, the reason it took me a couple of years was because it was so painful. Every time I’d go to it, I would start a draft and it got a little too real. I felt myself wanting to do the thing that you can do whether you’re talking to a group of friends or whether you’re onstage I’m going to now make this funny and I’m going to deflect. Or I’ll si
NYC has pretty much been a live music desert for the last year and a half since the start of the pandemic, but a great thunderstorm of concerts is upon us.
Our guest is the highly regarded American conductor and music director, David Robertson. He'll be holding the baton at the BOK Center this weekend, as the
/ Join the Iowa Jazz Composers Orchestra for the premiere of a new jazz suite Sunday, June 6 at 6 p.m. in Cedar Falls at the River Place Plaza stage. Sunday evening, June 6, between 6 and 7:30 p.m., grab your folding chair, blankets, picnic basket, liquid libations and friends. The Iowa Jazz Composers Orchestra will premiere “Fertile Soil Suite” and other new jazz works by Iowa composers in Cedar Falls.
The “Fertile Soil Suite” is finally unearthed this Sunday evening at 6 at a free concert held at the River Place Plaza’s outdoor amphitheater stage in downtown Cedar Falls.
Mike Conrad, an award-winning jazz composer and artistic director, founded the IJCO and composed his “Fertile Soil Suite” especially for the IJCO and its players.