Re: Duke Ellington

Theresa Muir (tmuir@broadway.GC.cuny.edu)
Thu, 1 Apr 1999 15:52:38 -0500 (EST)

Didn't Ellington do a (great) jazz arrangement of the Nutcracker suite?
I'm surprised nobody mentioned it.

F A E
Theresa Muir, Ph.D.
TMUIR@EMAIL.GC.CUNY.EDU

I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Paul Frankl wrote:

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>
> Dear Listmembers
>
> Can anyone tell me of any parallels between Duke Ellington and the
> 'classical' repertoire? I am producing a BBC programme on the day of the
> natal centenary (29th April) and I'd like to use some parallel
> illustrations. We'd all agree that he ranks as highly as Debussy,
> Stravinsky and Schoenberg (naturally) but I'd like to make some factual and
> musicological links.
>
> Hate-mail can be sent personally or to the List.
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> Many thanks,
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> Paul Frankl
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>