Jazz
Jakob Magnusson: Future Forecast
Neo-jazz keyboardist Jakob Magnusson joins us for a listen to his new album of jazz from the future
How high can new classical music lift us?
NEW YORK CITY: Richard Strauss’ most famous symphonic works are not symphonies, but “tone poems”. Deeply Romantic in spirit, these tone poems at once reveal a physical and metaphysical event. By the conclusion of the work, we feel to have been transformed into a higher state of being.
Classical composer Christopher Jessup’s newest symphonic work, Svítání (Czech for “sunrise”), implies a connection to Romantic transcendence. Together with the composer, we’ll experience the London Symphony Orchestra’s new recording of Svítání on Navona Records.
How high will this new classical music lift us? Let’s discover the new spirit of symphonic music!