In an age where the term "relevance" feels like the single dominant tenant of nearly all of us in the education community, the significance of the work of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington continues to ...

To call Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington inimitable is to actually downplay his mythic role in world culture, as no American figure — be he from the realm of jazz or any other musical idiom — has ever ...

T his account of the life and times of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington -- by far the most distinguished and important native son of Washington, D.C. -- is maddeningly overlong, mindlessly repetitious ...

A duke. One orchestra. Two choirs. Valentine’s Day. It might not sound like a traditional recipe for romance, but love will be the subtext Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Carpenter Theatre as the Richmond ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The celebration will be co-hosted by Mercedes Ellington—granddaughter of Duke ...

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DECORAH --- Luther College will host the eighth annual Midwest Black History Conference Feb. 16-17 as part of an Edward "Duke" Ellington Symposium. The conference will feature workshops, receptions ...

Papers relating to Duke Ellington, once owned by Ellington's publicist Joe Morgen: Morgen's correspondence, much of it relating to appearances by Ellington; photographs; some financial records; some ...

The Duke Ellington Center for the Arts, in association with The American Tap Dance Foundation, will present Such Sweet Thunder on Friday, December 12 at 7:00 PM at Symphony Space’s Peter Jay Sharp ...