Also credited on3 works
Sophisticated Ladies
Swing!
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
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In the literature8 passages
- I just heard the Creole Rhapsody written by Duke Ellington. It was also played by him and his orchestra. It's written on the same scale as my Rhapsody in Blue and you ought to hear the big discords. Wow! It's written in two parts and it has a very pretty melody running throughout. Listen to it. Yes, it's nice. I've only heard it about six…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
- P.S. Incidentally, I see that you have returned the Duke Ellington scores. What is your impression? Can you use them? I think he is waiting to hear, or at least Irving Townsend in our Pop Department is. My impression is that these could be done in a recording session in addition to all of the others you and I are planning. Anyway, let me…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
- 67 . Edward Morrow, “Duke Ellington on Gershwin’s ‘Porgy,’” New Theatre (December 1935): 5–6; reprinted in Mark Tucker, ed., The Duke Ellington Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 114–18 (quotation on page 115). For an informative study of Porgy and Bess’ s reception and race see Gwynne Kuhner Brown, “Problems of Race and Ge…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- Jerome Kern used to write his melodies first, then his lyricists would come along and set the words to his music. So did George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Richard Rodgers when he was working with Lorenz Hart. Yet from the Fifties onwards, as the excellence of the books of musicals became the factor by which success or failure was judged…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- There have been other musicals inspired by The Beggar’s Opera , including Beggar’s Holiday (1946, lyrics by John LaTouche and music by Duke Ellington); Big Deal , which opened in Chicago in 1961 (book by Paul Sills, lyrics by David Shepherd, and music by William Mathieu); and the Off-Off-Broadway The Beggar’s Soap Opera in 1979 with book…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- New Orleans was an unlucky theatrical locale for Duke Ellington, who composed the music for Mardi Gras . In 1966, his musical Pousse-Café , which also took place in New Orleans, closed after three performances on Broadway.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
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