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Duke Ellington: The Notes the World Was Not Ready to Hear - Hardcover

Barbera, Karen; Horton, Randall Keith

 
9781956450040: Duke Ellington: The Notes the World Was Not Ready to Hear
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1956450041 ISBN 13: 9781956450040
Verlag: Armin Lear Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Karen Barbera and Randall Keith Horton were strangers who met on a train. A cordial conversation led to an eight-year collaboration to tell new and enlightening stories about Duke Ellington and to bring his forgotten masterpieces back to life. The results are concerts and this book-a biography of both Ellington and Horton centered on their unique relationship and the musical and cultural importance of Black, Brown and Beige and Sacred Concerts.The book illuminates the historical significance of the compositions that helped create a paradigm shift in American music, race relations and culture. It is an engrossing story of "mysterious callings" that led Ellington to choose Randall Keith Horton as his assistant composer, conductor and pianist in 1973, and the author's serendipitous connection to Horton.Most of us know Duke Ellington as the king of swinging Jazz. But throughout his 50-year career, he also shattered racial barriers and stereotypes, bridged cultural divides, helped audiences feel their shared humanity, and dared people to imagine, if even for just one evening, a world without categories. Along the way he believed it possible and imperative to elevate Jazz and American composers on par with their European counterparts. Like a true pioneer, Duke Ellington took risks to provide music that audiences needed to hear, and in doing so, set lofty expectations for a country that was ill prepared to live up to them during his lifetime.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Karen S. Barbera is a Public Relations professional who has worked with of some of the top consumer product companies in the world. She is the author of four biographical books on historically significant individuals and a contributing writer to several magazines. She has also conducted investigative journalism for The Wall Street Journal, among others.Randall Keith Horton identifies himself as an "obscure Ellingtonian." In Spring1964, Horton received a mysterious calling commanding him to "Go to San Francisco and study music." The resulting high point occurred in 1973, when Duke Ellington invited Horton to compose and conduct original music for his orchestra at a concert at Disneyland. Ellington then appointed Horton to briefly serve as his composing and conducting assistant. After Duke's death, the Ellington family chose Horton to lead more than 30 performances of Duke's Sacred Music and write the only full-length, concerto grosso orchestration of Black, Brown and Beige, Ellington's most sweeping and misunderstood work.

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A true story of a man’s odyssey to repay a musical debt to Maestro Duke Ellington. A Strangers on A Train tale, but with a meeting of minds, an optimistic finish, and a twist in the ghostly presence of Ellington. Randall Horton, conductor-composer-pianist, worked for Elling-ton for two weeks (superbly rendered in detail at once hilarious, inspiring, and heartbreaking), propelling him on a lifelong mission to present four neglected Ellington masterpieces: Black, Brown and Beige (full-length, symphonic adaptation) and performances of his three Sacred Concerts. Alternating biographies of Ellington, Horton, and these works, add something genuinely new and enlightening. - Gary Giddins, author of Visions of Jazz and Bing Crosby: Swinging on Star This fascinating, page-turning, nearly unbelievable story shines a light on one fellow Ellingtonian’s struggle to bring to life the music the world needs to hear.- Mark McCoy, PhD, Princeton Entertainment Group Most of us know Duke Ellington as the king of swinging Jazz. But throughout his 50-year ca-reer, he also shattered racial barriers and stereotypes, bridged cultural divides, helped audiences feel their shared humanity, and dared people to imagine, if even for just one evening, a world without categories. Along the way he believed it possible and imperative to elevate Jazz and American composers on par with their European counterparts. Like a true pioneer, Duke Ellington took risks to provide music that peopled needed to hear, and in doing so, set lofty expectations for a country (a world) that was, unfortunately, ill pre-pared to live up to them during his lifetime.

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Verlag
Armin Lear Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1956450041
ISBN 13 
9781956450040
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
334
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Buchpark GmbH
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