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Marsalis's Swing Symphony with Paradise Theatre Big Band

Name: Marsalis's Swing Symphony with Paradise Theatre Big Band
Start: 2026-02-08T15:00:00
Location: Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

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Experience works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composers, including the world premiere of Michael Abels’s suite from his and Rhiannon Giddens’s opera Omar, based Omar ibn Said’s 1831 autobiography, the only memoir of an American slave written in Arabic. Wynton Marsalis’s Swing Symphony features the Paradise Theatre Big Band in musical dialogue with the DSO.

Program

Wynton Marsalis - Swing Symphony

Michael Abels - Omar

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Jader Bignamini

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra

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2 dates (7 Feb - 8 Feb)

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