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Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra with Dr. Cornel West

  • John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Terrace Theater 2700 F Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20566 United States (map)

Performances: 7pm & 9pm

Arturo O’Farrill

Join us for the Washington, D.C. premiere of three-time Grammy winner Arturo O’Farrill’s tribute to one of the most provocative critics and social activists of our time: virtuosic speaker, scholar, and civil rights icon Dr. Cornel West. Inspired by what he called the “innate musicality of West’s words,” O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra will perform original compositions with West to explore arts, politics, progress, and how uncertainty and improvisation often come hand-in-hand with hope.

Earlier Event: October 30
Trunk-or-Treat
Later Event: October 30
Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé & an NSO Co-commission