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Wynton is performing All Rise in Chicago now, with the JLCO and the Chicago Simphony Orchestra conducted by Steven Sloane.
The Chicago Tribune has just published a review about the performance.

In January 18, 19, 20, 21, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will play All Rise in Chicago, with the Chicago Simphony Orchestra conducted by Steven Sloane. More info about tickets on: CSO.org

Here is also an article with an interview to Wynton on Chicago Tribune

Two web review have been published about the recent All Rise concert held by Wynton and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in London and Manchester.

You could read them on Manchester on line and the on Music and vision

Last Sunday October 2, we were in London to meet Wynton and listen to his All Rise concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Kurt Masur.
The concert at the Royal Albert Hall was amazing, so beautifully written and arranged…and it is so nice to see and listen to this composition, with the living composer playing in the orchestra!
This time we shooted for you some interesting clips at the afternoon rehearsal, where Wynton teached the choir how to properly sing some parts.
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Kurt Masur opens Boston Symphony’s 2004 season at Tanglewood on July 9 with the Tanglewood premiere of Wynton Marsalis’ All Rise!
This program - an encore of the work’s acclaimed Boston premiere at Symphony Hall last December - features the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Wynton on trumpet, soprano Laquita Mitchell, mezzo-soprano Cynthia Renée Hardy, tenor Brian Robinson, and bass Robert Honeysucker.

Conductor Kurt Masur will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Boston premiere of Wynton Marsalis’ All Rise, December 3, 4, 6 at Symphony Hall, featuring Wynton on trumpet, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, soprano NaGuanda Miller, mezzo-soprano Cynthia Renee Hardy, tenor Brian Robinson, baritone Robert Honeysucker, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor.

In addition to the concerts themselves, the BSO is planning a host of activities around All Rise to get younger music lovers in and around Boston involved in the work. Building on the success of last season’s Online Conservatory - the BSO’s new interactive multimedia addition to its website www.bso.org - the Boston Symphony will once again offer this unique educational initiative in conjunction with the performances of All Rise.

The Online Conservatory features a video interview to Wynton, audio clips from the work and other interactive elements designed to not only educate visitors about the music and musicians but also to give them a look inside the work - the influences behind it, how it was created, and how it’s performed.
The site also offers coaching to visitors who might like to try their hand at writing their own blues compositions. A specially designed timeline, focusing on jazz and blues greats from history to present day, will give online visitors a wide-ranging overview of these two classic American genres of music.

The German conductor Kurt Masur has been recently interviewed by the Boston Globe about Wynton Marsalis’ oratorio “All Rise”.
“I was so impressed,” Masur said. “I thought: This guy is so talented as a composer he can do even more than he already has. Nobody has continued in the way of Ellington and Kenton, writing symphonic jazz. I called him and he came to my office, and he told me, No, because he said he had never learned to compose and orchestrate for the symphony orchestra. Three years later he called me again and said: Mr. Masur, I would like to talk to you. I think I could do a piece for the New York Philharmonic and my band.”

Maestro Masur, also spoke about the concert he did with Wynton, in Paris, on January 2003. (we have some video clips of that concert).

Read the full interview on Boston Globe

On January the 9th, Wynton Marsalis with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the National Orchestra of France directed by Kurt Masur and the Morgan State Choir from Baltimore, performed “All Rise” in Paris. We attended the concert and take you behind the scenes !
Here you have some photos from the event

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Wynton playing in Paris (Quicktime 7 - 9.5 mb)

Wynton playing in Paris (Quicktime 7 - 31.7 mb)

Wynton playing in Paris (Quicktime 7 - 21.9 mb)

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