NEC Jazz Orchestra presents Tonight: The Music of Leonard Bernstein
7:30 pm
Thursday, October 18, 2018
New England Conservatory
Jordan Hall
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
NEC Jazz Orchestra; Ken Schaphorst, conductor
The NEC Jazz Orchestra kicks off their season with a program of Bernstein classics including selections from his beloved Broadway masterpiece West Side Story. The program will also include Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs which Bernstein himself called “a serious piece of American music,” and which premiered on his television show “The World of Jazz.”