Concertgebouw Orchestra plays Marsalis’ Trumpet Concerto

Black American composers

Under the direction of Antony Hermus, the Concertgebouw Orchestra performs a program of music by Black American composers. The renowned trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis connects jazz with classical music. In his Trumpet Concerto, we hear a trumpeting elephant, references to the French Baroque, blues, Louis Armstrong, the European-Jewish trumpet tradition, and much more. The soloist is Miro Petkov, principal trumpeter of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Bass-baritone Davóne Tines sings several spirituals and the 100-year-old *Ol' Man River* by Jerome Kern from the musical *Show Boat* .

Nabors and Dawson

Alongside the Dutch premiere of the rhythmic Pulse by the young American Brian Raphael Nabors, William Dawson's expressive Negro Folk Symphony will also be performed; it caused a sensation at its premiere in 1934. Together with similar successes by William Grant Still and Florence Price in those years, Dawson's work seemed to herald a more inclusive period for classical music, but that did not happen, and sadly, Dawson would not write any more symphonies.