Wynton Marsalis: Blues Symphony
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, January 14, 2010
At Martin Luther King Auditorium, Morehouse College

Symphonic Music. Total immersion in glorious sound.
Dressing up. Sitting between mother and daughter
Flanked by father and son in law. Surrounded by hundreds.
Every seat filled. Every heart rapt. Everyone is family.
Beautiful, spare hall. Organ pipes in geometric harmony.
Rich rich sound filling the hall, filling the hearts.
Spano, with black shirt rolling and flowing
As he dances his direction.
Rhythms of America.
Bluesy horns, syncopation.
Washboards and whistles.
Hand claps and foot stomps
Written in the score.
New Orleans and New York.
Oh, the clarinet--wailing, crying.
Soul lifts as music moves from sorrow to joy.
Faces light up. Bodies want to dance.
The musicians having FUN with the music.
Celebrating humanity. Celebrating the uplifting
from mundane to sublime through
Glorious music.