Let freedom ring! It was no reflection on the National Symphony Orchestra—yet how it must have stung—when Philip Glass withdrew his Symphony No. 15, a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Trump’s hostile takeover, Glass declared in January, put the Kennedy Center’s values “in direct conflict” with the message of the symphony. Plan B took shape in no time. It was the Boston Symphony Orchestra, historically no champion of Glass, that copped the honor and the prestige, premiering “Lincoln” on the opening weekend of its summer season in Tanglewood. Will the National Symphony ever bounce back from what Trump hath wrought? Here’s hoping. Just now, the encouraging news is that it has stepped up for Wynton Marsalis’s spanking-new Symphony No. 5. “Freedom,” as the work is called, originally slated to make its debut in May with the Baltimore Symphony. But Marsalis blew his deadline, and it’s Wolf Trap, the country’s only national park for the performing arts, that is jumping into the breach, joining forces with the Jazz Orchestra of Lincoln Center, which Marsalis founded and has led for four decades. “Lincoln,” which the once prodigiously prolific Glass completed in 2023, two years after his last previous composition, may well be that American icon’s swan song. With “Freedom,” Marsalis wraps up his final season with Jazz at Lincoln Center, marking a different sort of historic moment. Endings and beginnings. They just keep coming. —Matthew Gurewitsch