FESTIVAL CLOSING
12 May SAT, 6PM
Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage, Singapore Botanic Gardens FREE 1h 15m
Concert-goers are advised to take public transport
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Duke Ellington’s legendary jazz orchestra performs his landmark works.
innovative compositions that challenged the conventions of his time.
The legendary Duke Ellington Orchestra, founded by and named after one of the 20th century’s most prolific American composers, will play some of the late composer and musician’s landmark jazz pieces for Singapore music lovers in a lively 75-minute performance amid the lush greenery of the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
Duke Ellington’s illustrious career included leading his eponymous orchestra, composing an inexhaustible songbook, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals and world tours. In his lifetime, he had played over 20,000 performances in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East as well as Asia.
One of the most influential figures in jazz, if not all American music, Duke Ellington is widely considered one of the best known African American personalities of the last century. Over a colourful career that spanned more than 50 years till his death at the age of 75 in May 1974, Duke Ellington influenced millions of people both around the world and in America with his
The Duke Ellington Orchestra has carried on the influential composer’s legacy under the guidance of two successive generations of the Ellington family. Hear them perform live the music of one of the jazz world’s most pivotal figures. Singapore musicians Alemay Fernandez and Nick Zavior are guest vocalists for this concert.
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