In the second of six programmes,
Alyn Shipton concentrates on New Orleans in the deep South. The city, which grew out of a French settlement, became the pre-eminent centre for French opera outside
Paris in the last century. It was the home of composer
Louis Gottschalk , pianist and bandleader Jelly Roll Morton, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band,
Cajun music, the New Orleans Symphony
Orchestra and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.
