Congratulations to the Jazz Ensemble
The Foxboro High School Jazz Ensemble played at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration. The program, A Celebration for America, was arranged by Wynton Marsalis and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and featured many jazz greats. For more information:
- "D.C. fete gives band a grand stage," Boston Globe, January 8, 2009
- Fox 25 video
- "Foxboro musicians ready for trip to gala," Sun Chronicle, January 16, 2009
- Wynton Marsalis' website (see also the list of performers)
- "Live Last Night: A Celebration of America," Washington Post, January 20, 2009
- "Honoring Dr. King with Aretha Franklin and Wynton Marsalis," New York Times, January 20, 2009
- "Wynton Marsalis, Sandra Day O’Connor to Lead A Celebration of America: Program Presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center and The Rockefeller Foundation," The Rockefeller Foundation
- "Foxboro Jazz Ensemble Plays It Cool," Sun Chronicle, January 22, 2009
- "Sounds of Freedom," The New Yorker, January 21, 2009
- "Inauguration Blogger: Feathers, Fur and a Borrowed Trumpet," W Magazine, January 20, 2009
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