The 72nd season of nine Door County symphony concerts by the professional orchestra includes works by Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Bernstein, Morricone, and more
Marsalis to play John Williams’ work
Actually, the opening night concert marks a return to Door County and the Door Community Auditorium stage for Marsalis as well, as the genre-crossing (notably as leader of 1990s hip-hop fusion band Buckshot LeFonque) three-time Grammy winner, onetime “The Tonight Show” bandleader and member of the legendary Marsalis family of jazz musicians played there in 2003. Marsalis was touring at the time to support a new album of jazz music he’d written inspired by the work of visual artist Romare Bearden.
For the Aug. 6 PMF program, titled “American Dream,” Marsalis is the featured soloist on John Williams’ “Escapades,” which the famed composer wrote as a suite for alto saxophone and orchestra based on tunes from his soundtrack to the Leonardo DiCaprio-Tom Hanks movie “Catch Me If You Can.”
The program also offers pieces by other American composers, Aaron Copland’s “Billy the Kid” Suite and Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Symphony No. 1.
