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This was the second (and last) performance of the Duke Ellington's Third Sacred Concert.The premiere is available here https://youtu.be/cwqeT0Fp8YYINDEX:01:1...
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Oct 24, 1973 · Duke Ellington's Third Sacred Concert by Duke Ellington released in 1975. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Sacred Concert by Duke Ellington is one of the following realisations:. 1965 - Concert of Sacred Music 1968 - Second Sacred Concert 1973 - Third Sacred Concert Ellington called these concerts "the most important thing I have ever done".
The Third Sacred Concert was built around the skills of Alice Babs, Harry Carney, and Ellington himself on the piano. It was premiered at Westminster Abbey in London, United Kingdom on October 24, 1973 and released on LP in 1975 but has only been issued on CD as part of the 24 disc The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973) collection.
Feb 15, 2008 · Ellington's choral music comes from what he called his Sacred Concerts. Ellington wrote this music late in life, as he was thinking about his mortality and becoming more spiritual. Between 1965 ...
The first of his three ‘sacred concerts’ was a commission for Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, and led to two further suites, the last of which received its premiere in Westminster Abbey in 1973, shortly before the Duke’s death.
Recorded in Westminster Abbey, London, on United Nations Day, 24 October, 1973. Barcode and Other Identifiers. ... Duke Ellington's Third Sacred Concert. 50:18; Lists
