{"id":5276,"date":"2019-09-29T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2019-10-04T16:08:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:08:23","slug":"review-branford-marsalis-brings-lyricism-dexterity-to-orlando-philharmonic-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/review-branford-marsalis-brings-lyricism-dexterity-to-orlando-philharmonic-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Branford Marsalis brings lyricism, dexterity to Orlando Philharmonic opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Orlando Sentinel<\/a><\/p>\n

By Matthew J. Palm<\/p>\n

The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra kicked of its 27th season Saturday with a hefty dose of drama and a visit from noted musician Branford Marsalis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Marsalis demonstrated is lovely tone quality on the \u201cRuckert Lieder\u201d before displaying his dexterity on the far livelier \u201cConcertino de camera\u201d for alto saxophone and orchestra. Fingers a-flutter, Marsalis confidently flew through composer Jacques Ibert\u2019s flamboyant solo section \u2014 making sure his virtuosity was that of musicianship, not showboating.<\/p>\n

Virtuosity will be a theme of this Philharmonic season, music director Eric Jacobsen<\/strong> said at the start of the concert, with an emphasis on American masters of their art.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t imagine starting off the season with a more perfect American virtuoso,\u201d Jacobsen said of Marsalis. \u201cHe has transformed what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

For his third appearance, Marsalis returned to Mahler with \u201cPrimeval Light,\u201d the fourth movement of his \u201cResurrection\u201d Symphony No. 2 in C minor. Marsalis\u2019 playing remained lyrical \u2014 Jacobsen had earlier described it as \u201csinging\u201d \u2014 and showed a gentleness of touch, a lightness you don\u2019t always hear in a sax.<\/p>\n

Read the full review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Orlando Sentinel By Matthew J. Palm The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra kicked of its 27th season Saturday with a hefty dose of drama and a visit from noted musician Branford Marsalis. Marsalis demonstrated is lovely tone quality on the \u201cRuckert Lieder\u201d before displaying his dexterity on the far livelier \u201cConcertino de camera\u201d for alto … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3823,3685,3613,3824,3686,3612,3822],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5277,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions\/5277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}