Marsalis returns to Sanders
Wynton Marsalis is returning to Harvard to continue his two-year lecture series, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music,” with a talk on improvisation at Sanders Theatre on April 17. Currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Marsalis is an accomplished musician, composer, bandleader, and educator who has made the promotion of jazz and cultural literacy his hallmark cause. In addition to his lecture-performance, Marsalis will teach a master class to more than 100 local high school students the following day at the Boston Arts Academy. Marsalis’ lecture, the fourth in the series, is titled “At the Speed of Instinct: Choosing Together to Play and Stay Together.” It will begin at 7 p.m. and include musical illustrations by acclaimed musicians, including Walter Blanding (tenor sax), Ali Jackson (drums), Carlos Henriquez (bass), and Marcus Roberts (piano). For the first time in the series, the event will be live-streamed at harvard.edu. “We...