The Hop: Illegal Crowns and the Coast Jazz Orchestra Another Prayer for Passive Resistance
Sat, Feb 28
|Spaulding Auditorium
An internationally acclaimed collective quartet shares the evening with the Hop's resident student jazz orchestra, offering creative music to meet the moment.
Time & Location
Feb 28, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Spaulding Auditorium, 4 E Wheelock St, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
About the event
The collective ensemble Illegal Crowns (featuring the long-standing trio of guitarist Mary Halvorson, drummer Tomas Fujiwara and cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum) is joined by very special guest: legendary trumpet player and composer Wadada Leo Smith, for a first-time quartet meeting of some of contemporary music's leading creative figures.
The Coast Jazz Orchestra will perform original music by Halvorson, Fujiwara and Smith, in addition to reimagining Charles Mingus's classic A Prayer for Passive Resistance and premiering a new composition by Coast alum Amy Norton '23.
Coast Jazz Orchestra is funded in part by gifts from Friends of the Coast.
photo: Ben DeFlorio