Orchestra Meets Jazz
A five-piece combo from The Colored Musicians Club of Buffalo will join the BPO to illustrate Buffalo’s important role in the birth of jazz in America. Stefan Sanders conducts.
Jazz, the quintessential American music, traveled all the way to Europe and back before becoming a part of the orchestral canon here in its native country. Composers like George Gershwin ultimately became masters of using the sounds of jazz in the symphony hall.
Stay after the concert to continue the conversation at a party in the Mary Seaton Room with music by the George Scott Big Band!
Program
Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (Rumble)
Small Combo from CMC plays a short rag (Joplin, etc.)
Stravinsky - Ragtime (1918)
Small Combo CMC plays New Orleans-style blues
Copland - Music for the Theatre, Movement IV, Burlesque (1925)
Gershwin - An American in Paris (1928)
Ellington - Sophisticated Lady (1932)
Including solos from CMC combo
Small combo from CMC performs Arlen’s Over the Rainbow with vocalist
Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story