An Evening of World Renowned Artistry

The Equal Justice Initiative will bring together visionary instrumentalist, composer, and acclaimed jazz and classical saxophonist...

In the summer of 2021, Branford Marsalis performed in Kalamazoo for a Symphony summer performance at the Gilmore Car Museum. So began a multi-year residency project that would include the creation...

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The piece that most clearly demonstrated Williams’s full stylistic range was “Escapades,” a three-movement orchestral score drawing...

Branford joins The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Digital Stage performing works by Glazunov and Villa-Lobos! The concert is available starting November 12 at 8 PM and available all weekend long...

Branford Marsalis has faced the question a few times along his career: which music is harder to play, jazz or classical?

You'd think the answer would be jazz, where notes aren't...

Although the symphonic heavy-hitter in the opening concert of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra’s 2016-2017 classical season last weekend at Miller Symphony Hall was undoubtedly Beethoven...

The 2016-17 season-opening Allentown Symphony Orchestra classical music concerts will be long-remembered for a Lehigh Valley world premiere by a well-known musician, band leader and composer.

When Branford Marsalis performed Villa Lobos’ Fantasia for Saxophone and Orchestra for his first time back in 2008, you’d think it would have been a cakewalk for the multiple Grammy-...

Ahead of his Hong Kong debut, Branford Marsalis coaches some young city musicians. His biggest tip for them: ‘People react to sound. Sound can create emotion. Technique is just execution...

Jazz saxophonist’s Hong Kong debut, in a concert of classical music, was well received, his playing by turns romantic, reflective and warm but with few outlets for his virtuosity

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