Now for something completely different. WCRB has the bare bones, but for a serious description you have to go to the BSO's performance detail page, where we are told:
Celebrating the Symphonic Legacy of Wayne Shorter
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Clark Rundell, conductor
esperanza spalding, vocalist and bass
Leo Genovese, piano
Terri Lyne Carrington, drums
Dayna Stephens, saxophoneALL-WAYNE SHORTER PROGRAM
Forbidden, Plan-It!
Orbits
Midnight in Carlotta’s Hair
…(Iphigenia) Suite No. 1
Causeways
Gaia, for jazz quartet and orchestraThis tribute concert honors the life and legacy of the great jazz innovator, composer, bandleader, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter who passed away in March 2023. These performances feature five longtime Shorter collaborators in their BSO debuts, including the Grammy Award-winning bassist and vocalist esperanza spalding. spalding wrote the libretto for Shorter’s 2022 opera …(Iphigenia), which was premiered in Boston in 2021 and is based on the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides.
Thursday evening’s concert is supported by Tom Kuo and Alexandra DeLaite.
Saturday's performance of Gaia, for jazz quartet and orchestra is supported by John Lowell Thorndike, former BSO trustee, treasurer, vice president, and lifelong advocate for the performance of contemporary music.
There are very extensive biographical notes followed by briefer annotations about each piece in the program notes which are linked on the BSO page.
There is an enthusiastic review in the Globe and a favorable, althought drier, one in the Intelligencer.
This will all be new to me. Those of you who are jazz afficionados probably already know some of Wayne's work. It should make for an interesting evening for all on WCRB, which is simulcasting the concert with sister station WGBH where there is a presence of jazz.
Enjoy.
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