Leonard Bernstein — Times Square Ballet from On the Town

George Gershwin — Cuban Overture

Darius Milhaud — The Creation of the World, op. 81a

Dave Brubeck — Regret

Dave Brubeck — "Sleep, Holy Infant" for Violin and Strings

Dave Brubeck — Elementals

Tom Schrickel, piano; Steve Heinemann, alto saxophone; Brian Roessler, bass; Terry Vermillion, drums

 

The MSO salutes jazz great Dave Brubeck’s 90th birthday (December 6, 2010) with a concert comprising works by Brubeck, Gershwin, Bernstein and Darius Milhaud, Brubeck’s teacher and mentor.

 

 

 

The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross did a write up of the MSO Concert. 

 

 

Doug Ramsey, one of America's leading jazz critics and the author of Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond, has a brief writeup on his blog.