Tune in for broadcast of Marsalis' Blues Symphony with Măcelaru and The Philadelphia Orchestra
Wynton Marsalis and Cristian Măcelaru collaborate on the “Blues Symphony” (Photo credit: Joshua Boucher)
Radio station WRTI FM will broadcast Wynton Marsalis’ “Blues Symphony” December 2019 performances by Cristian Măcelaru and The Philadelphia Orchestra. Listeners can tune in on Sunday, February 16th at 1pm EST or Monday, February 17th at 7pm EST on WRTI FM or streaming worldwide at wrti.org. Check out details below!
The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert on WRTI 90.1: Wynton Marsalis’ Blues Symphony In The Spotlight
By Gregg Whiteside
WRTI 90.1
February 14, 2020
Join us on Sunday, February 16th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 to hear the first-ever performance of Wynton Marsalis’s 2009 composition Blues Symphony by The Philadelphia Orchestra. The work is conducted by Cristian Măcelaru—for whom the symphony holds special importance.
A marriage of jazz with symphonic traditions, the symphony explores the vast canvas of American musical styles—from the blues to gospel, from ragtime to the shuffle—to create a meditation on what Marsalis calls our “enduring American rhythm.”
MARSALIS: Blues Symphony
I: Born in Hope
II: Swimming in Sorrow
III: Reconstruction Rag
IV: Southwestern Showdown
V: Big City Breaks
VI: Danzon y Mambo, Choro y Samba
VII: Dialog in Democracy
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Cristian Măcelaru, conductor
To read the detailed program notes from the concert, click here.