Rhapsody in Black

Duke Ellington's 'Black, Brown and Beige' fuses jazz with classical orchestration


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Duke Ellington once said, “All arrangements of historic American Negro music have been made by conservatory-trained musicians who inevitably handle it with a European technique. It’s time a big piece of music was written from the inside.” That piece of music premiered in 1943 in Carnegie Hall, and it was titled ‘Black, Brown, and Beige.’ Find out more in the 'Rhapsody in Black' podcast.

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