Gig Review: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra w/ Wynton Marsalis and NZSO: Swing Symphony (March 10, Wgtn)

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra w/ Wynton Marsalis and NZSO: Swing Symphony (Symphony No.3)

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Thursday, March 10

In a long programme the first half featured our New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Matthew Coorey. The opening rendition of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Swing was polite, if lengthy. Lovely to hear the instruments, the layers, t…