Re: Duke Ellington

Maureen Buja (mebuja@stagebill.com)
Thu, 1 Apr 1999 16:19:31 -0500

He also appears to have done some kind of arrangement of Grieg's Peer Gynt,
op. 23. The New York Philharmonic and Jazz at Lincoln Center are doing a
joint concert of this next week: April 7, 9, 10, and 13. NYPhil is playing a
"movement" and then the LC Jazz Orch. is playing the same movement in the
Ellington/Strayhorn arrangement. The Wednesday concert (the 7th) is being
telecast live as part of "Live from Lincoln Center" (Can you tell I'm
writing this with preliminary version of the program in front of me?)

Maureen Buja
Managing Editor - Stagebill
(212) 875-5961
mebuja@stagebill.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Theresa Muir <tmuir@broadway.GC.cuny.edu>
To: Paul Frankl <paul.frankl@bbc.co.uk>
Cc: MList <mlist@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: Duke Ellington

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> Didn't Ellington do a (great) jazz arrangement of the Nutcracker suite?
> I'm surprised nobody mentioned it.
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> F A E
> Theresa Muir, Ph.D.
> TMUIR@EMAIL.GC.CUNY.EDU
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> I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
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> On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Paul Frankl wrote:
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> > Dear Listmembers
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> > 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
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> > musicological links.
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> > 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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