October 6
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis
This week, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis collaborate with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra! Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Adams’s The Chairman Dances, Shostakovich’s Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1, Prokofiev’s Selections from Romeo and Juliet, and Marsalis’s All American Pep from Swing Symphony. In between, we hear Ellington’s Big Fat Alice’s Blues, Amad, and The Mooch.
John Adams
The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1
Duke Ellington
Big Fat Alice’s Blues
Duke Ellington
Amad
Duke Ellington
The Mooch
Sergei Prokofiev
Selections from Romeo and Juliet
Wynton Marsalis
All American Pep from Swing Symphony
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; Wynton Marsalis trumpet; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor