Saturday, February 25, 2012

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra comes to the Ferguson Center


By David Nicholson
Fifteen of jazz music's leading instrumental soloists make up New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra comng Monday, Feb. 27, to the Ferguson Center for the Arts on the Christopher Newport University campus.
Led by renowned Juilliard-trained trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the orchestrta performs a broad range of repertoire, everything from rare historic compositions to works commissioned by the Jazz at Lincoln Center organization. Marsalis, the group's music director, is the first jazz artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio, "Blood on the Fields," which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center.

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