For Immediate Release: November 9, 2016

NOVEMBER 11 SONIC EVOLUTION CONCERT

PAYS TRIBUTE TO QUINCY JONES AND
ERNESTINE ANDERSON

Co-presented as Last Concert of the 2016 Earshot Jazz Festival

Music Director Ludovic Morlot Leads the Seattle 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 Seattle Symphony’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 Washington
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 Carnegie Hall 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 Royal Academy of Music in London and then at
the Royal College of Music as recipient of the Norman del Mar 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.

MEDIA CONTACTS:
You You Xia, Public Relations Manager, (206) 215-4758
youyou.xia@seattlesymphony.org

Rosalie Contreras, Vice President of Communications, (206) 215-4782

rosalie.contreras@seattlesymphony.org