Arts
Courtesy of the Hopkins Center
At the post-concert public discussion that Maria Schneider, composer and conductor of her own Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, held in Spaulding Auditorium this past Saturday, she responded to a question from an audience member about soloists and the process of improvised soloing by saying, "I give them the harmonic framework." This is, of course, slightly paraphrased, as she had much more to say than that, and her music does much more than give the members of her orchestra a simple harmonic framework.
The concert given by Schneider and the members of her orchestra on Saturday was, quite simply, wonderful.