Preview - Sir Simon Rattle set to conduct Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and LSO , Jazz at the Barbican - July 25/26
Published: 05 January 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
HOW do you get one of the world’s top jazz orchestras to play with one of the world’s great classical orchestras?
By bringing together New York trumpeter/composer Wynton Marsalis with Sir Simon Rattle, chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Wynton Marsalis has composed a new symphonic meditation of the evolution of swing, Swing Symphony.
The new piece gets its UK premiere at the Barbican in late July.
It’s being performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by Marsalis himself, playing together with the London Symphony Orchestra.
And Sir Simon Rattle will be conducting the two orchestras.
Marsalis’s Swing Symphony is being played in the second half of the programme.
The first half features Sir Simon conducting the LSO in a performance of Rachmaninov’s dramatic Symphonic Dances, written in the US in 1940 and infused with nostalgia for the composer’s homeland.
Coinciding with the start of the Olympics, the concerts promise to be the jazz/classical musical event of the summer – and they’re not sold out yet.
• Wynton Marsalis’s Swing Symphony, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Barbican Hall July 25-26, 7.30pm, Barbican Hall, tickets £25-£85, 020 7638 8891, www.barbican.org.uk/