Swing Symphony

Name: Swing Symphony
Start: 2024-11-15T21:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-11-15T23:15:00+02:00
Location: Concertgebouw Amsterdam

Schedule

Fri Nov 15 2024 at 09:30 pm to 11:15 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Concertgebouw Amsterdam | Amsterdam, NH

In seven parts, this unique combination of jazz and classical describes the development of the earliest jazz, the ragtime, to the latest that is accompanied by a touch of nostalgia.
A unique combination of jazz and classical music
Conductor
Wayne Marshall
Choir
SO! Gospel Choir
Trombone
Louis Bonilla
Saxophone
Don Braden
Double bass
Joris Teepe
Drums
Gene Jackson
Piano
Danny Grissett
Band
Big Band Prince Claus Conservatoire
Program
W. Marsalis: Swing Symphony
"Duke was optimism. I'm with him.' So said the world-famous American trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis about his Swing Symphony. By this he meant that the optimistic spirit of jazz legend Duke Ellington is omnipresent in the great work. In seven parts, this unique combination of jazz and classical describes the development of the earliest jazz, the ragtime, to the latest that is accompanied by a touch of nostalgia.
Powerful and lyrical, bombastic and contemplative. With this Swing Symphony, his third, Marsalis covers a wide emotional range. The symphony orchestra, the big band of the Prince Claus Conservatoire and various jazz soloists from New York unite. The piece was created in 2010 as a result of a joint commission from two major American orchestras, among others: in short, a powerful impulse. Gershwin, Bernstein and Copland were the inspiration. Beforehand, it brings ZO! Gospel Choir gospel songs. Which, like no other music, show the origin of jazz: these spirituals were the equally melancholy and seductive songs that Afro-Americans sang in the 19th century like slaves in the cotton fields of the southern states of America.