Live: January 2022

15 January -23 January, 2022 

Symphonic Ellington 

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at The Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl

 

Programme details here.

 

 

26 January, 2022 

Black, Brown and Beige and Sacred Music 

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 

with Audra McDonald, The Jazz Orchestra at Dr Phillips Center 

Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Bethune-Cookman University Concert Chorale

From the website:

 

Jazz is America’s music—and Duke Ellington was its number one creator. His work 

 

Black, Brown and Beige is an American masterpiece that set out to broaden a person’s—and a country’s—sense of history. Critics panned its premiere in New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1943, simply because it was ahead of its time.

 

Now, 80 years later, special guest Audra McDonald will join The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, along with members of The Jazz Orchestra at Dr. Phillips Center, players from Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Bethune-Cookman University Concert Chorale to honor Ellington’s most significant work. This monumental evening will feature the professional world premiere of the orchestration of Black, Brown and Beige created at Ellington’s request. 

 

Seats will fill up fast. Get tickets now for the performance of a lifetime—as Steinmetz Hall continues to take its place as one of the world’s most important concert halls.

 

 

27 January, 2022, 3:00PM (EST)

 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a Black King of the Bible in Duke Ellington’s 

Symphonic Triptych Three Black Kings

Jazz composer, pianist, jazz orchestra leader, and symphonic orchestra conductor, Duke Ellington also composed some symphonic works of great complexity. Three Black Kings,  a score for ballet, was his last major work. The first movement represents Balthazar, the Black king of the Nativity; the second portrays Solomon, King of Israel; and the third celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ellington's personal friend.

Luca Bragalini will discuss Martin Luther King’s musical depiction in Three Black Kings,  with an analysis of the implications of the Black King’s imagery in art history, political thought,  and the importance that religion has had for the African American community.

 

Tickets available here.

 Monday, 31 January 2022

 

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Duke Ellington Orchestra directed by Jeremy Price

Afro Bossa

Details here.