JLCO Artistic Director, trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis’s Symphony No 4 encompasses glimpses of ragtime and elements of popular dance music. Its six movements combine rapid and hard-swinging fast passages with poignant, blues-tinged melodies and colourful, plushly orchestrated jazz chords. ...
“I just tap out a beat, pick a few chords and say, ‘Come on, you folks know this old tune.’ Pretty soon the audience’ll be singing the song to me,” Mr. Seeger told the Chicago Tribune in 1994. “You can’t sit idle at a Pete Seeger concert,” folk-music collector and pe...