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“Look Beyond” and “The Halls of Erudition and Scholarship”
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Wynton Marsalis’ discusses his songs “Look Beyond” and “The Halls of Erudition and Scholarship.”
Wynton Marsalis’ shares the powerful meaning and inspiration behind his songs “Look Beyond” and “The Halls of Erudition and Scholarship (Come Back Home),” which are two of the movements in his masterpiece composition "All Rise" performed at Chautauqua Institution as part of their 150th Anniversary celebration.
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“Look Beyond” and “The Halls of Erudition and Scholarship”
Clip: 2/11/2025 | 4m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
Wynton Marsalis’ shares the powerful meaning and inspiration behind his songs “Look Beyond” and “The Halls of Erudition and Scholarship (Come Back Home),” which are two of the movements in his masterpiece composition "All Rise" performed at Chautauqua Institution as part of their 150th Anniversary celebration.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪♪ -The idea of human brokenness and human possibility.
The idea of human brutality and human beauty.
How do we deal with those contradictions and face those contradictions in order to hammer out something new?
-Well, I went to the deepest human fundamentals, right?
So the seventh movement is "Look Beyond."
That means you look beyond all of how you were raised, all of what you think is true.
All of what you have been brainwashed into thinking is you, and it's more open spirituality, redemption through sacrifice, of the transformative power of love, the refusal to separate people into their genres based on society.
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ We get to eight, and that one is called "The Halls of Erudition and Scholarship."
And that's like you go to whatever your concept of heaven is.
♪♪ ♪♪ -Over 100 singers and musicians come together to perform "All Rise."
They call out to the audience, "Come back home."
It's a demonstration of the power of unity and community.
-Everything's spinning around and bouncing and buzzing.
Brass playing, timpanis, everybody.
And then the choir sings at the end.
-♪ Oh, won't you come by here?
♪ ♪ Oh, sweet Jesus, won't you come by here?
♪ [ Vocalizing ] ♪♪ -♪ Hear me praying won't you come by, Lord?
♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ -♪ Bleed my soul until it sings unto ♪ ♪ Still I'm gonna sing my song ♪ -♪ Glory train coming through ♪ ♪ Help us Lord, sing our souls ♪ ♪ Sing our song ♪ ♪ Yes, the Lord's always here to hold our hands ♪ ♪ And He say come back, and He say, come back ♪ ♪ And He say, come back home ♪ [ Cheers and applause ]
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