Orpheus with Wayne Shorter Quartet

Not since its pioneering collaborations with Herbie Hancock (1998) and Branford Marsalis (2001) has Orpheus made so exciting a foray into the world of jazz as with this extraordinary evening of music with saxophonist Wayne Shorter (celebrating his 80th birthday!) and his Quartet: pianist Danilo Perez, drummer Brian Blade, and bassist John Patitucci. At Orpheus’s urging, Shorter has revisited his 2004 Grammy Award–winning Alegria and created a substantially new 50-minute tour de force, blending the incomparable musicianship of his own Quartet with the welcoming alertness and agility of the Orpheus players. In honor of the “Promethean” stature of Wayne Shorter in American music, Orpheus opens the program with the Overture of that same name by Beethoven, and invokes the spirit of camaraderie and fellowship in treasured musical gatherings (as this one with the Wayne Shorter Quartet surely is!) with Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 3, “The Camp Meeting,” in which melodies and tunes dear to the American spirit are interwoven and savored.