Edwin Outwater welcomes Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to the stage with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to perform Mussorgsky's "Pictures from an Exhibition" at Symphony Center on March 3, 2017. (Brittany Sowacke / Chicago Tribune)
by Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
March, 4 2017
What happens when two great orchestras — one jazz, one classical — share a stage and a score?
Previously unencountered sounds can occur, as they did in abundance Friday night in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, where the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra appeared en masse.
In some ways, the concert's focal point — a bold reworking of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" — recalled two jazz-meets-the-classics experiments by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: "Nutcracker Suite" (inspired by Tchaikovsky's original) and "Peer Gynt Suites" (drawn from music of Grieg).
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