Second of four programmes for the Easter weekend in which jazz virtuoso Wynton Marsalis conducts musical masterclasses for young people in a barn at Tanglewood, Massachusetts, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Marsalis explores rhythm, the basic pulse that drives all music, comparing Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite with the jazz arrangement of the work by Duke Ellington. Using everyday objects and images to convey his points, he also contrasts the roles of percussion in classical and jazz music. Featuring Marsalis's own 17-piece jazz band, BSO conductor Seiji Ozawa and the Tanglewood Orchestra.
(From Sousa to Satchmo: tomorrow at 7.30 pm)