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Symphonic Ellington: New World A-Comin' with Gerald Clayton at Walt Disney Concert Hall

Dates: (1/20/2022 - 1/21/2022 )

Theatre:

Walt Disney Concert Hall


111 S Grand Ave
Los Angeles, 90012

Phone: 323 850 2000

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In 1943, Duke Ellington premiered two works about the experience of Black Americansone, Black, Brown, and Beige, traced their collective history and another, New World A-Coming, imagined a hopeful future. Ellington wrote about the latter in his biography, I visualized this new world as a place in the distant future, where there would be no war, no greed, no categorization, no non-believers, where love was unconditional, and no pronoun was good enough for God.Within the context of the orchestra, Ellington explored these themes, as well as his faith, in many forms, from sacred concerts to extended suites to tone poems. He brought the full range of his musical vocabulary to bear on his symphonic work, weaving spirituals, jazz, blues, and even West Indian dance music into his orchestrations. In two programs over four nights, Thomas Wilkins leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a weekend dedicated to the orchestral music of a great American composer.



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