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  • INTERVIEWER: Jazz legend, Chick Corea

  • will serve as the 2020-21 season's Mary and James G.

  • Wallach Artist-In-Residence as both pianist and composer.

  • DEBORAH BORDA: What a multifaceted performer,

  • musician.

  • It's very special I think that we

  • can embrace a musician who is in our world

  • and in a special world besides.

  • INTERVIEWER: The Philharmonic has co-commissioned Chick Corea

  • to compose a trombone concerto, which the orchestra will

  • premiere with principal trombone, Joseph

  • Alessi as soloist.

  • CHICK COREA: The writing that I'm

  • doing for the trombone concerto is in my mind

  • expressing a lot of my sentiments

  • about growing up in New York.

  • For instance, one of the movements I'm calling a stroll.

  • What I've tried to do is put in music.

  • What it would be like taking a stroll from Harlem, all the way

  • down Broadway, down to Seoul.

  • JOSEPH ALESSI: What I like about his writing

  • is his ability to use rhythm and melody together.

  • There's always a sense of cohesiveness and fun.

  • INTERVIEWER: The legendary jazz musician

  • will also perform Chick and Friends, a one night only

  • concert and curate a post-concert, Kravis Nightcap

  • concert hosted by Kravis creative partner Nadia Sirota.

  • NADIA SIROTA: Talk about an artist who has constantly

  • reinvented himself.

  • I mean, he's worked with so many people.

  • He's pushed the medium.

  • He's pushed music in so many different directions.

  • INTERVIEWER: Chick Corea will open this season

  • with Mozart's Piano Concerto Number

  • 24 with his own improvised jazz-inflected cadenzas

  • conducted by music director Jaap van Zweden.

  • It will be a reunion of sorts after 30 years.

  • JAAP VAN ZWEDEN: Many, many years ago, I

  • was still concertmaster in the Concerto Amsterdam

  • and Chick Corea came with Friedrich Gulda.

  • It was an amazing deal at that time.

  • So years later, here we are.

  • CHICK COREA: This collaboration with the orchestra

  • is-- it's like a New York thing to me.

  • It's like a love of New York City.

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