Opening Concert: All Rise

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTRE ORCHESTRA RESIDENCY

Start your Festival with this resplendent jazz symphony embodying the human condition from Jazz at Lincoln Center and its Musical Director, Wynton Marsalis.

Wynton Marsalis’s magnificent work, All Rise, is the inspiration behind this year’s Festival theme. This massive jazz symphony in 12 movements, a tribute to the 12-bar blues, blends musical influences from around the world in a full-blooded expression of the human condition.

It traces a journey from birth, play and self-discovery, through pain and sacrifice, to maturity and joy. Teeming with the multiplicity, contradiction and surprise which life brings us, the music swings from juba to blues, via a New Orleans funeral and the rhythms of a train, to classical and jazz, in an exhilarating conversation.

Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra join forces with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and Jason Max Ferdinand Singers – all under the baton of the renowned James Gaffigan. With over 200 performers on stage, this glorious ‘thunder’ of a work is a monumental opening to our Usher Hall series.

Arrive early to enjoy pop-up performances and refreshments.

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It implores the heavens for salvation and comfort and peace
Chicago Tribune

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engrossing and courageous work which reconciles diffuse musical cultures and languages
Gramophone on All Rise

Supported by Sheila Colvin

Programme

Sung in English with surtitles

Full programme

Performers

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
James Grossmith
Chorus Director
Jason Max Ferdinand Singers
James Gaffigan
Conductor

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Soprano 1
Carol-Anne Burnett
Louise Cameron
Simona Cenci
Annette Chapman
Katherine Craig
Lisa Dawson
Clare Hewitt
Lorna Holl
Talitha Kearey
Andrea Kocsis
Amber Marshall-Porter
Louise McGregor
Morag Michael
Natsuko Mortimer
Sally Pitts
Alison Pryce-Jones
Roxane Pryse Hawkins
Ros Sutherland
Jennifer Swan
Lesley Walker
Soprano 2
Anne Backhouse
Claire Bennett
Susan Bowden
Rhona Brown
Deborah Buckingham
Kathryn Coad
Rosamund Davidson
Dorothy Fairweather
Aileen Fraser
Carol Haley
Leila Inglis
Lesley Johnston
Maggie Kinnes
Debbie Logan
Janet McKenzie
Emily McLeish
Kathy Miller
Katharine Oyler
Heather Priedhorsky
Karen Traill
Alto 1
Moira Allingham
Alison Beck
Ruth Bowen
Barbara Brodie
Yvonne Connell
Susan Crosby
Catherine Dunlop
Caroline Dunmur
Kirstie Fairnie
Rona Gray
Anne Grindley
Tatiana Malikova
Fiona Milligan
Nicola Stock
Mary Taylor
Susan White
Alto 2
Anna Borbely
Sally Cameron
Wendy Colquhoun
Helen Coskeran
Jennie Davidson
Tori Graham
Linda Hunter
Tamsin Kilgour
Caroline Low
Ellen Cate MacDougall
Carol Madden
Frances McDevitt
Catriona McDonald
Lucy O'Leary
Penny Stone
Morag Watson
Tenor 1
Joanna Bleau
Brendan Glen
David Leaver
Martin McKean
Alex Rankine
Mike Towers
Tenor 2
Alan Armstrong
Andrew Binnian
Harrison Clark
Graham Drew
Richard Hellewell
Michael Jamieson
Eric Turnbull
James White
Bass 1
John Buckley
Derek Calder
Malcolm Crosby
Martin Gray
Nick Harding
David Hewitson
Andrew Hyder
Ivor Klayman
Andrew Lyons
David Mack-Smith
Tom Marshall
Graham Naysmith
Christopher Pryse Hawkins
Charles Stewart
Richard Stewart
Bass 2
Ken Allen
Nick Balneaves
Peter Cannell
Philip Coad
John Halliday
Callum Hay
Stephen Lipton
John McLeod
Roger Robertson
Neil Ryrie
Graham Scott
Martin Scott
Mike Smith
David Traill

Dive Deeper

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"All Rise contains elements of many things I consider to be related to the blues: the didgeridoo, ancient Greek harmonies and modes, New Orleans brass bands, the fiddler’s reel, clave, samba, the down-home church service, Chinese parade bands, the Italian aria, and plain ol’ down-home ditties. In attempting to unite disparate and large forces, everyone has to give up something in order to achieve a greater whole. The fun is in the working together"
Wynton Marsalis on All Rise