Internationally famous alto saxophonist Branford Marsalis returns to Chicago to perform as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Debussy's Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra and Copland's Clarinet Concerto on soprano saxophone Friday at 8 p.m. and again Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Conducted by David Robertson. Robertson will also lead the CSO in Faure's Pelleas and Melisande and Adams' Harmonielehre, this phase of the concert will be held at Orchestra Hall, located at 220 S. Michigan Ave.
Sunday, the concert will be repeated at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts at Michigan State University, in East Lansing, Mich. with Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Opus 95 (From the New World).
A native of Santa Monica, Calif, Robertson is the musical director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and the principal guest conductor of London's BBC Symphony Orchestra. He frequently conducts symphonies throughout the world including the CSO, the San Francisco and Boston symphony orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Royal Concrete Orchestra and the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra.
Marsalis is an artist whose talent enables him to perform several instruments and various genres of music. He is also the founder of the Marsalis Music record label. His brothers are Wynton, Delfeayo, Jason, Kinyatta Mboya and Ellis III, who is a poet, photographer and network engineer based in Baltimore.
Branford began his professional career with Art Blakey's big band, Clark Terry and Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He joined Wynton's ensemble, but left to play in Sting's backup band. During the second half of the '80s, Branford fronted his own ensemble. He also served as musical director of the Tonight Show, worked briefly with the Grateful Dead and toured in one of Miles Davis' last bands.
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by Earl Calloway
Defender Staff Writer
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