***Tickets are on sale now! Proof of vaccination will be required to attend this performance in person.*** Saxophonist and Saturday Night Live's Music Director Lenny Pickett presents A Short March into the Future—elegiac and contrapuntal music with roots in R&B and electronic music featuring 12 musicians playing without amplification. The ensemble includes two tubas, three saxophones, (doubling clarinets) two trumpets (doubling flugelhorns), accordion, piano, six-string banjo, upright bass, mallets, drums and percussion. The fourteen pieces vary in length from one to seven minutes. This program is dedicated to Hal Willner. Steven Bernstein: trumpet and flugelhorn Ravi Best: trumpet and flugelhorn Ron Blake: baritone and soprano saxophones Jasper Dutz: alto and soprano saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet Vitor Gonçalves: accordion and piano John Hadfield: drums and percussion Tyler McDiarmid: six string banjo Valerie Naranjo: mallets and percussion Rebecca Patterson: trombone and tuba Lenny Pickett: tenor saxophone and E-flat and alto clarinets Marcus Rojas: tuba and euphonium Ricardo Rodriguez: bass https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/084/577/935/original/5a5898e149406eee.png