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CSO goes Jazzical and Gets Scorched: Part II

June 1, 2009

Previously, I began discussing the Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert featuring jazz-inspired works.  You can review Part I of this article to read about Three Black Kings by Duke Ellington, the first work on the program. Considering these kinds of works are rarely performed by symphony orchestras, I thought it warranted breaking this story into two [...]

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CSO Goes Jazzical And Gets Scorched: Part I

May 27, 2009

Jazz is only a word and has no meaning . . . I don’t know how such great extremes as now exist can be contained under the one heading ~ Duke Ellington Ok, well the Chicago Symphony Orchestra didn’t get scorched in the literal sense, but it was an evening filled with Jazz inspired classical [...]

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