Music Director Joseph Young and Berkeley Symphony continue the 2019-2020 season with two Bay Area premieres by Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Gunther Schuller in an evening of jazz-inspired works. Making his debut appearance, legendary jazz trumpeter Sean Jones performs as soloist in Zimmermann's Trumpet Concerto "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" and shares the stage with the Berkeley High Jazz Combo for Schuller's Journey Into Jazz. Written for narrator, orchestra and jazz quintet, this work will also feature Artistic Director of the African-American Shakespeare Company L. Peter Callender as narrator. Rounding out the program is Darius Milhaud's La creation du monde and Gershwin's iconic An American in Paris.
Using jazz elements and a twelve-tone-row as its foundation, Bernd Alois Zimmermann's spiritual Trumpet Concerto was originally commissioned by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR North German Broadcasting) as a piano concerto. Zimmermann convinced the NDR to instead commission the work for an underrepresented instrument thus increasing the likelihood of multiple performances. Reflecting on the racial inequality and discrimination in the USA at the time, the concerto incorporates the African-American spiritual "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" as a modern cantus firmus.
Gunther Schuller's rarely-performed Journey Into Jazz tells the story of a young boy's musical journey, using text by renowned author and jazz critic Nat Hentoff, a former writer for The New Yorker, The Washington Post and JazzTimes, among others. The work combines both fully-notated orchestral parts and improvisational "charts" for the jazz combo, with each member of the combo serving as characters in the story. Sean Jones shares the stage with the Berkeley High Jazz Combo, an ensemble of young musicians from the long-standing Berkeley High Jazz Program, a national model of instrumental education.
$15 to $96.
Presented by Berkeley Symphony
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Using jazz elements and a twelve-tone-row as its foundation, Bernd Alois Zimmermann's spiritual Trumpet Concerto was originally commissioned by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR North German Broadcasting) as a piano concerto. Zimmermann convinced the NDR to instead commission the work for an underrepresented instrument thus increasing the likelihood of multiple performances. Reflecting on the racial inequality and discrimination in the USA at the time, the concerto incorporates the African-American spiritual "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" as a modern cantus firmus.
Gunther Schuller's rarely-performed Journey Into Jazz tells the story of a young boy's musical journey, using text by renowned author and jazz critic Nat Hentoff, a former writer for The New Yorker, The Washington Post and JazzTimes, among others. The work combines both fully-notated orchestral parts and improvisational "charts" for the jazz combo, with each member of the combo serving as characters in the story. Sean Jones shares the stage with the Berkeley High Jazz Combo, an ensemble of young musicians from the long-standing Berkeley High Jazz Program, a national model of instrumental education.
$15 to $96.
Presented by Berkeley Symphony
Music Director Joseph Young and Berkeley Symphony continue the 2019-2020 season with two Bay Area premieres by Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Gunther Schuller in an evening of jazz-inspired works. Making his debut appearance, legendary jazz trumpeter Sean Jones performs as soloist in Zimmermann's Trumpet Concerto "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" and shares the stage with the Berkeley High Jazz Combo for Schuller's Journey Into Jazz. Written for narrator, orchestra and jazz quintet, this work will also feature Artistic Director of the African-American Shakespeare Company L. Peter Callender as narrator. Rounding out the program is Darius Milhaud's La creation du monde and Gershwin's iconic An American in Paris.
Using jazz elements and a twelve-tone-row as its foundation, Bernd Alois Zimmermann's spiritual Trumpet Concerto was originally commissioned by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR North German Broadcasting) as a piano concerto. Zimmermann convinced the NDR to instead commission the work for an underrepresented instrument thus increasing the likelihood of multiple performances. Reflecting on the racial inequality and discrimination in the USA at the time, the concerto incorporates the African-American spiritual "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" as a modern cantus firmus.
Gunther Schuller's rarely-performed Journey Into Jazz tells the story of a young boy's musical journey, using text by renowned author and jazz critic Nat Hentoff, a former writer for The New Yorker, The Washington Post and JazzTimes, among others. The work combines both fully-notated orchestral parts and improvisational "charts" for the jazz combo, with each member of the combo serving as characters in the story. Sean Jones shares the stage with the Berkeley High Jazz Combo, an ensemble of young musicians from the long-standing Berkeley High Jazz Program, a national model of instrumental education.
$15 to $96.
Presented by Berkeley Symphony
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Using jazz elements and a twelve-tone-row as its foundation, Bernd Alois Zimmermann's spiritual Trumpet Concerto was originally commissioned by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR North German Broadcasting) as a piano concerto. Zimmermann convinced the NDR to instead commission the work for an underrepresented instrument thus increasing the likelihood of multiple performances. Reflecting on the racial inequality and discrimination in the USA at the time, the concerto incorporates the African-American spiritual "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" as a modern cantus firmus.
Gunther Schuller's rarely-performed Journey Into Jazz tells the story of a young boy's musical journey, using text by renowned author and jazz critic Nat Hentoff, a former writer for The New Yorker, The Washington Post and JazzTimes, among others. The work combines both fully-notated orchestral parts and improvisational "charts" for the jazz combo, with each member of the combo serving as characters in the story. Sean Jones shares the stage with the Berkeley High Jazz Combo, an ensemble of young musicians from the long-standing Berkeley High Jazz Program, a national model of instrumental education.
$15 to $96.
Presented by Berkeley Symphony
show less
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