Marsalis’s New World
Living Voices
•
1h 50m
EASTMAN Symphony No. 2
MARSALIS Trumpet Concerto (World Premiere)
DVORAK Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World")
Music Director Franz Welser-Möst leads a celebration of African American music: the symphonic tribute to spirituals in Dvorak’s "New World" Symphony, Eastman’s minimalist Second Symphony, and the world premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s imaginative Trumpet Concerto. Principal Trumpet Michael Sachs and Marsalis discuss following each other’s careers and their excitement at collaborating on this brilliant, rollicking new piece that draws from a wide range of American musical idioms. Scholar Kira Thurman describes Julius Eastman’s mid-century world and reflects on the process of rediscovering and celebrating this long-neglected Black composer.
Up Next in Living Voices
-
A Postmodern Christmas
ADAMS 𝘌𝘭 𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘰
Hailed as “intelligent, emotional and sometimes magical” by the BBC, John Adams’s El Nino imagines a modern-day miracle, retelling the story of Handel’s Messiah through a constellation of references ranging from medieval chant to contemporary Latin American poetry. In conversation,...
-
Dual Existence: Salonen as Composer C...
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin
SALONEN Cello Concerto
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5Salonen leads a shimmering performance of Ravel’s exquisitely French Le Tombeau de Couperin; his own demanding and evocative Cello Concerto, brought to life by Senja Rummukainen; and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5, a visionar...
-
Hannigan’s Musical Community
HAYDN Symphony No. 44
VIVIER 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥
LIGETI 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘰
STRAUSS 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯Moving listeners through memory, love, loneliness, triumph, and surrender, Barbara Hannigan leads the Orchestra in a program of Haydn, Vivier, Ligeti, and Strauss. She discusses the role music played in he...
