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Robert Spano and Wynton Marsalis Make Music
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Stephanie Hughley, head of the National Black Arts Festival, and Woodruff Arts Center CEO Joe Bankoff stopped by the AJC this morning to give us a preview of upcoming events.
The most intriguing news: Jazz great Wynton Marsalis is collaborating with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra music director Robert Spano on a symphonic piece, tentatively scheduled to premiere in Atlanta in July. It’s a work in progress, but Marsalis’s first composition on a symphonic scale — his 1999 epic “All Rise” — has been called “stunning” and among the “most ambitious pieces ever written.” (It has 12 movements, lasts an astonishing 90 minutes, and incorporates a wide variety of influences, from the didgeridoo to ancient Greek music.)
I, for one, can’t wait to see what he has in store for Atlanta.
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