Duke Ellington: A Concert of Sacred Music

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. . . . Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. Our first selection is the spiritual theme from Black Brown and Beige and the development into a sort of montage by adding the worksong theme. All come Sunday.

As part of the festivals of Grace, a year-long series of events celebrating the completion and consecration of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. The Dean of Grace Cathedral, the very Reverend C. Julian Bartlett, and the Reverend John S. Yarian invited the American composer, conductor, and pianist, Edward Kennedy Ellington, Duke Ellington, to prepare and present a concert of sacred music. In the program for the concert, Dean Bartlett wrote, Duke Ellington has been endowed by God with a gift of genius. He is one of the giants of contemporary music, having made profound contributions to his

feet. He and his company of artists make an offering to God in this concert. And in his preface to the concert, Ellington wrote. In this program, you may hear a wide variety of statements without words, and I think you should know that if it is a phrase with six tones, it symbolizes the six syllables in the first four words of the Bible, in the beginning, God, which is our theme. We say it many times, many ways. Very important. Probably the most important statement I've ever made. We're employing a lot of different mediums. We want to use Herman Macquarie's choir, and I want to bring buddy Briggs in to do David Lawrence, I've got a couple of young kids that I want to bring in for solos. It's an opportunity to say something that you want to say, and it is an opportunity that you get every day. Thank you.

The first of three Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow is Tell

Me It's the Truth. The first of the three Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow.

The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. Tell Me It's the Truth. Tell Me It's the Truth. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow.

Tell Me It's the Truth. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow.

The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow.

The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. The third Ellington works to be sung by a vocalist Esther Marrow. No symphony, no jai, no Gemini 5, no pedestrian, no carriage train, no bodyguards, no credit cards, no conference calls, no TV commercials, no aspirin, no headaches, no sand traps, mud packs, no heroes, no zeros, no naughty, no nice. No applause, no critique, no amateurs, no professionals, no questions, no answers, no singers, no dancers, no nothing.

In the beginning, gone, in the beginning, gone, in the beginning, gone. No, no ever, no earth, no nothing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no.