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    'Blues Symphony' of Wynton Marsalis Parallels William Grant Still's 'Afro-American Symphony'
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    An Atlanta Symphony press release reads: “Music Director Robert Spano And The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra To Perform World Premiere Of Wynton Marsalis's Blues Symphony November 19-22, 2009.” The press release says: "Music Director Robert Spano will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the World Premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer-musician Wynton Marsalis’s new symphonic work, Blues Symphony. The new work celebrates the blues through the prism of different moments in American history, and will be the first work by Marsalis composed exclusively for symphony orchestra." To our mind, the news suggested striking parallels with the circumstances of William Grant Still's Symphony No. 1 (Afro-American). Full Article at AfriClassical
    Music Director Robert Spano will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the World Premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer-musician Wynton Marsalis’s new symphonic work, Blues Symphony. The new work celebrates the blues through the prism of different moments in American history, and will be the first work by Marsalis composed exclusively for symphony orchestra.
    SOURCE: AfriClassical 4 weeks ago
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'Blues Symphony' of Wynton Marsalis Parallels William Grant Still's 'Afro-American Symphony'
  1. Talking about the Blues Symphony - Movement I-II [HQ] (4:22).
    SOURCE: AfriClassical 4 weeks ago
  2. I'm working day and night on Blues Symphony, the piece I'm writing for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. I had a chance to sit down and talk about each of the 7 movements in the piece. Here are the first two. I'll be posting videos of me talking about the other movements in the days to come.
    SOURCE: AfriClassical 4 weeks ago
  3. I knew I wanted to write a symphony; I knew that it had to be an American work; and I wanted to demonstrate how the blues, so often considered a lowly expression, could be elevated to the highest musical level.
    SOURCE: AfriClassical 4 weeks ago
  4. A contemporary of Work and Dawson, William Grant Still based his first symphony, the Afro-American Symphony (1930), on the blues and his experience as a jazz arranger.
    SOURCE: AfriClassical 4 weeks ago

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