Word: wynton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DESCRIBED JAZZ, which premiered at the NEW YORK CITY BALLET last week, as "about America," with musical references to black history, Indian tribes and such. Don't worry about the politics: there isn't any. This six-part dance suite is set to a yawping, march-based score by Wynton Marsalis and played by the trumpeter and his band. The choreography, by City Ballet's artistic director, Peter Martins, is pure syncopated glitz -- down, dirty and eye dazzling. It's an occasion for some of the company's stars -- led by Yvonne Borree, as perky as a coffeemaker -- to slink...
...this is where some of the nation's best music students and the world's greatest musicians gather each year at the National Music Camp at Interlochen--people like Isaac Stern and Yo Yo Ma and Wynton Marsalis...
...similarly eclectic spirit enlivens A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert, a recording of a 1991 performance that featured Kathleen Battle, Frederica von Stade, Wynton Marsalis and Andre Previn conducting the Orchestra of St. < Luke's. This potpourri of holiday goodies makes a determined effort to be culturally inclusive: one of its many delights is the calypso Christmas tune Mary's Little Boy Chile...
...program of spirituals on Deutsche Grammophon that is still going strong as a crossover best seller. In January Battle released an all-Bach album with + violinist Itzhak Perlman, also on DG; it remains near the top of the classical charts. Now, in the new pairing with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, she has another best seller...
Kathleen Battle and Wynton Marsalis go Baroque...