Experience works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composers, including the world premiere of Michael Abels’s suite from his and Rhiannon Giddens’s opera "Omar," based Omar ibn Said’s 1831 autobiography, the only memoir of an American slave written in Arabic. Wynton Marsalis’s Swing Symphony features the Paradise Theatre Big Band in musical dialogue with the DSO.

Jader Bignamini, conductor
Paradise Theatre Big Band (Kris Johnson, Founder & Director)

RHIANNON GIDDENS/MICHAEL ABELS Suite from "Omar" (World Premiere)
WYNTON MARSALIS Swing Symphony