New York Premiere of Wynton Marsalis' Blues Symphony at Rose Theater

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ACO presents the NY premiere of jazzmaster Wynton Marsalis' recently completed Blues Symphony. A rare work for purely orchestral forces by the jazz legend, Marsalis' symphony celebrates blues through the prism of moments in American and African-American history and folklore (Marsalis does not perform in this work). The world premiere of Sanctum by Courtney Bryan, a New Orleans-based composer and alumna of ACO's Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute, explores improvisation in Holiness-preaching traditions. Completing the program is a revised and expanded version of Uri Caine's Double Trouble, a combination of fixed musical forms, freedom and spontaneity featuring the composer at the piano.