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Top orchestra will bring jazz to young of the East End
Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent24.07.09
Some of the world's top jazz musicians are to share their skills with young people in the East End.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and its artistic director Wynton Marsalis - who played the trumpet at President Obama's inauguration - is undertaking outreach work in the five Olympic boroughs as part of a new partnership with the Barbican.
The plans include the establishment of a new East London Creative Jazz Orchestra of teenage musicians.
Other school jazz and big bands will get coaching and there will be talks and masterclasses for music undergraduates and postgraduates.
The public will have free outdoor and family concerts by the JLCO with American trumpeter and composer Marsalis. The programme will include a concert at the Hackney Empire.
The initiative will be launched tonight as Marsalis and the orchestra take to the stage at the Barbican for the first time since the JLCO was named as an international associate at the centre alongside the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam.
Reader views (2)
Great Initiative! I just saw some fantastic Congolese music at the Barbican and the youth orchestra this week. With reference to the comment from Gloria from Edmonton, Does it matter who is paying for it? get some language lessons!
- Shara Brennan, London, UK
Why? Who'd paying for it?
- Gloria G, Edmonton, UK
