Classical Roots honors and celebrates African-American composers, musicians, educators, and cultural and civic leaders. On Friday, experience Florence Price’s Symphony No. 3; Price is the first African-American woman to have a composition performed by a major orchestra, and the Symphony No. 3 was premiered right here in Detroit. On Saturday, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra take the stage to perform Marsalis’s own Swing Symphony.

2 hours

Program:
Bruch - Violin Concerto (Friday)
Price - Symphony No. 3 (Friday)
Wynton Marsalis - Swing Symphony (Saturday)

Artists:
William Eddins - Conductor
Randall Goosby - Violin
Wynton Marsalis - Trumpet

Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra

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