Word: ellington
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jones had hit the big time, as he was arranging and recording for diverse artists such as Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie and Duke Ellington...
Slatkin, a baseball fan since childhood whose greatest sacrifice in moving to Washington has been giving up his St. Louis Cardinals season tickets, pointedly devoted his entire opening concert to music by such American composers as Bernstein, Howard Hanson and the Washington-born jazz icon Duke Ellington. "Because you are called the National Symphony," he says, "you have an obligation, not just out of a sense of duty but out of real love, to present the music of your own country. We should be thinking of our own repertoire in the same way that the Austrians view Mozart...
...listening classes, however, there is far less room for any discussion of a definitive right and wrong. In fact, it seems that because we will never know precisely what a Dickens or a Tennyson, a Mozart or a Michelangelo, a Hitchcock or an Ellington intended to convey, there is a certain humility inherent to the study of their arts. A premium is placed on digesting as much as possible in the way of opinion and suggestion; yours are as good as mine, and mine no better than hers...
...dance companies and dancing schools alike; now the Brooklyn Academy of Music has come up with a fresh take on the classic: Donald Byrd's The Harlem Nutcracker, which tells the story of a grandmother who relives her youthful romance in the great Harlem nightclubs--all to Duke Ellington's jazz-and-gospel-tinged arrangement of Tchaikovsky...
Since recrossing the Atlantic, she has begun to make waves. Her performance at a celebration of the film music of Duke Ellington at New York City's Lincoln Center in May startled and delighted those who heard it. As she took the stage to sing Ellington's Saddest Tale--performed by Holiday in 1935--her bearing was tentative, awkward. But when she started singing, her performance was said to be impeccably phrased, suffused with emotion; the New York Times said "she might as well have been channeling Billie Holiday...