Featured music: Fiddle bow real / Wynton Marsalis, arr. Robert Sadin -- The nutcracker suite : op. 71A / Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- The nutcracker suite / Duke Ellington
Summary
Using two versions of The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky's and Duke Ellington's jazz arrangement), Wynton demonstrates how composers use rhythm to express a wide variety of emotions
Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 21, 2014)
Originally produced for the television series Marsalis on Music in 1995
Performer
Wynton Marsalis, host, trumpet ; Seiji Ozawa, conductor ; The Wynton Marsalis Jazz Orchestra ; Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra ; Tanglewood Music Center students
