The Maria Schneider Orchestra: Data Lords at Kaufmann Concert Hall

The 2019 NEA Jazz Master and five-time Grammy Award winner is one of the jazz world’s most respected and original voices. Her stunning 18-piece Maria Schneider Orchestra has been described by The New York Times as “a touchstone for large-ensemble designs in jazz.” Schneider brings her ensemble to 92Y for a special one-night-only engagement: the New York premiere of her latest project, Data Lords. Her first recording since the epic, Grammy Award-winning The Thompson Fields, the music of Data Lords is Schneider’s statement on the polarized digital/organic environment we live in. “One world clamors for our constant attention...

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The 2019 NEA Jazz Master and five-time Grammy Award winner is one of the jazz world’s most respected and original voices. Her stunning 18-piece Maria Schneider Orchestra has been described by The New York Times as “a touchstone for large-ensemble designs in jazz.” Schneider brings her ensemble to 92Y for a special one-night-only engagement: the New York premiere of her latest project, Data Lords. Her first recording since the epic, Grammy Award-winning The Thompson Fields, the music of Data Lords is Schneider’s statement on the polarized digital/organic environment we live in. “One world clamors for our constant attention. The other doesn’t need us at all,” she writes. Be among the first to experience this extraordinary artist’s vitally relevant new work and her continued search for the sonic beauty in … everything.

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