Michelle Obama, Jon Batiste in New Orleans for ‘American Symphony’ screening
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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Grammy award winner Jon Batiste returns home to New Orleans and brings a special guest, former First Lady Michelle Obama, with him for a special screening of the Netflix and Higher Ground documentary, “American Symphony.”
The film takes place early in 2022 when multi-instrumentalist Batiste finds himself the most celebrated artist of the year with eleven Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year.
In the midst of that triumph, he is immersed in his most ambitious challenge yet: composing American Symphony, an original symphony that reimagines the traditions of the classical form, bringing together an expansive and inclusive diaspora of music for a performance at storied Carnegie Hall.
This extraordinary trajectory is upended when Batiste’s life partner, best-selling author Suleika
Jaouad, learns that her long-dormant cancer has returned.
In the intimate “American Symphony,” Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, The First Wave, Retrograde) delivers a portrait of two artists at a crossroads and a profound meditation on art, love and the creative process.
The special film screening took place at the Orpheum Theater. “American Symphony” is now streaming globally on Netflix.
Batiste is a five-time Grammy Award winner. He is currently nominated for six Grammys this year.
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