For Immediate Release: November 9, 2016

NOVEMBER 11 SONIC EVOLUTION CONCERT PAYS TRIBUTE TO AND ERNESTINE ANDERSON

Co-presented as Last Concert of the 2016 Earshot Festival

Music Director Ludovic Morlot Leads the Symphony, Garfield High School Jazz Band, Singers Grace Love and Danny Quintero, Principal Clarinet Benjamin Lulich, and The Cuong Vu Group in Concert

Photo by Brandon Patoc

Seattle, WA--Seattle jazz legends Quincy Jones and Ernestine Anderson will be honored during the ’s November 11 Sonic Evolution concert, co-presented with Earshot Jazz Festival. A signature concert series that features orchestral commentary on Seattle’s legacy of inventive and groundbreaking music, Sonic Evolution was designed and launched by Music Director Ludovic Morlot as a cross-genre concert presentation. The November 11 concert will start with the World Premiere of Groovebox Fantasy, a dedication to Quincy Jones by Portland composer Kenji Bunch. The first half of the concert will also feature Principal Clarinet Ben Lulich who will solo in Scott McAllister’s clarinet concerto Black Dog, written with stylistic nod to Seattle music legend Jimi Hendrix; and jazz combo The Cuong Vu Group performing One by trumpeter and the Chair of Jazz Studies at the University of Cuong Vu, which was dedicated to Quincy Jones and premiered during the inaugural Sonic Evolution concert in 2011.

The second half of the concert starts with selections from Ernestine Anderson’s vast song repertoire, including her signature tune, “Never Make Your Move Too Soon,” performed by vocalist Grace Love. It will be followed by a tribute to Quincy Jones performed by his alma mater, the Garfield High School Jazz Band led by Clarence Acox, performing side-by-side with the Seattle Symphony. The tribute features standards that Jones produced for Frank Sinatra, including “The Best is Yet to Come,” “Come Fly with Me” and “Fly Me to the Moon.” See below for concert details.

Tickets start at $21 and can be purchased online at www.seattlesymphony.org, by calling the Seattle Symphony Ticket Office at (206) 215-4747 or (866) 833-4747, or in person at the Seattle Symphony Ticket Office on the corner of Third Avenue and Union Street. Tickets may also be purchased through the Seattle Symphony’s Listen Boldly App available for iPhone and Android by searching “Seattle Symphony” or “Listen Boldly” at Apple’s App Store or Android’s App Store.

PROGRAM DETAILS: SONIC EVOLUTION S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium

Friday, November 11 at 8 p.m.

Ludovic Morlot, conductor Clarence Acox, conductor Grace Love, vocals Danny Quintero, vocals Benjamin Lulich, clarinet The Cuong Vu Group Garfield High School Jazz Band Seattle Symphony

KENJI BUNCH Groovebox Fantasy (World Premiere) SEATTLE SYMPHONY

SCOTT MCALLISTER Black Dog BENJAMIN LULICH, CLARINET SEATTLE SYMPHONY

CUONG VU One THE CUONG VU GROUP SEATTLE SYMPHONY

JULE STYNE “Time After Time” /lyric Sammy Cahn/trans. Jon Harpin/strings orch. Sean O'Loughlin GRACE LOVE, VOCALS GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND SEATTLE SYMPHONY

MARÍA GREVER/STANLEY ADAMS “What A Diff'rence A Day Makes” /arr. Sean O'Loughlin GRACE LOVE, VOCALS GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND SEATTLE SYMPHONY

NESBERT JR. "STIX" HOOPER/WILL JENNINGS “Never Make Your Move Too Soon” /arr. Bill Ramsay/strings orch. Sean O'Loughlin GRACE LOVE, VOCALS GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND SEATTLE SYMPHONY

QUINCY JONES The Midnight Sun Never Sets GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND

QUINCY JONES Stockholm Sweetnin’ GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND

DON GIBSON/ARR. QUINCY JONES I Can’t Stop Loving You GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND

CY COLMAN “The Best Is Yet To Come” /lyric Carolyn Leigh/arr. Quincy Jones/prepared Rob DuBoff/strings orch. Sean O'Loughlin DANNY QUINTERO, VOCALS GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND SEATTLE SYMPHONY

JIMMY VAN HEUSEN “Come Fly With Me” /lyric Sammy Cahn/arr. Quincy Jones/trans. Jon Harpin/strings orch. Sean O'Loughlin DANNY QUINTERO, VOCALS GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND SEATTLE SYMPHONY

BART HOWARD “Fly Me To The Moon” /arr. Quincy Jones/prepared Rob DuBoff & Jeffrey Sultanof/strings orch. Sean O'Loughlin DANNY QUINTERO, VOCALS GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND SEATTLE SYMPHONY

Audience Development supported by The Wallace Foundation.

Sonic Evolution is generously supported by The Mitrovich Family and Delta Air Lines

Media Sponsors: Secondinversion.org and City Arts

ABOUT LUDOVIC MORLOT

The French conductor Ludovic Morlot has been Music Director of the Seattle Symphony since 2011. Amongst the many highlights of his tenure, the orchestra has won two Grammy Awards and gave an exhilarating performance at in 2014, as reported in the The New York Times: “The performance Mr. Morlot coaxed from his players was rich with shimmering colors and tremulous energy.”

During the 2016–2017 season Morlot and the Seattle Symphony will continue to invite their audiences to “listen boldly,” presenting Ravel’s L'enfant et les sortilèges, completing their cycle of Beethoven symphonies and piano concertos and several world premieres including compositions by Agata Zubel and Gabriel Prokofiev. All of this will be complemented by the Seattle Symphony’s highly innovative series, Sonic Evolution and [untitled]. This season will also see the release of several more recordings on the Orchestra’s label, Seattle Symphony Media. A box set of music by Dutilleux was recently released to mark the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

This season, Morlot will return to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic and make his debut with the Minnesota Orchestra. He has regular relationships with the New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony Orchestra and has also conducted the symphony orchestras in Cleveland and Philadelphia. Morlot has a particularly strong connection with the Boston Symphony Orchestra having been Seiji Ozawa Fellowship Conductor in 2001 and subsequently appointed assistant conductor for the orchestra and their Music Director James Levine (2004–07). Since then he has conducted the orchestra in subscription concerts in Boston, at Tanglewood and on a tour to the west coast of America.

In Europe, Morlot will this season make his debut with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, in the closing concert of the prestigious Wien Modern Festival. He will also make his debut with the Netherlands Radio and Helsinki Philharmonic orchestras as well as return to the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Last season’s engagements included the DSO Berlin and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He has also conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in London and on tour in Germany. Other recent notable performances have included the Budapest Festival, Czech Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony, Dresden Staatskapelle, Orchestre National de France, Royal Concertgebouw, Tokyo Philharmonic and Tonhalle orchestras. Morlot served as conductor in residence with the Orchestre National de Lyon under David Robertson (2002–04).

Ludovic Morlot was Chief Conductor of La Monnaie for three years (2012–14). During this time he conducted several new productions including La Clemenza di Tito, Jenufa and Pelléas et Mélisande. Concert performances, both in Brussels and Aix-en-Provence, included repertoire by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Britten, Webern and Bruneau. Trained as a violinist, Morlot studied conducting at the in London and then at the Royal College of Music as recipient of the Conducting Fellowship. Morlot was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 2014 in recognition of his significant contribution to music. He is Chair of Orchestral Conducting Studies at the University of Washington School of Music in Seattle.

ABOUT SEATTLE SYMPHONY

The Seattle Symphony is one of America's leading symphony orchestras and is internationally acclaimed for its innovative programming and extensive recording history. Under the leadership of Music Director Ludovic Morlot since September 2011, the Symphony is heard from September through July by more than 500,000 people through live performances and radio broadcasts. It performs in one of the finest modern concert halls in the world — the acoustically superb Benaroya Hall — in downtown Seattle. Its extensive education and community engagement programs reach over 65,000 children and adults each year. The Seattle Symphony has a deep commitment to new music, commissioning many works by living composers each season. The orchestra has made nearly 150 recordings and has received two Grammy Awards, 21 Grammy nominations, two Emmy Awards and numerous other accolades. In 2014 the Symphony launched its in-house recording label, Seattle Symphony Media.

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