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- Edward Kennedy Ellington
New World A-Comin’ (1945)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
arr./ed. by Maurice Peress
- pf + 2(II:pic).2.2+bcl.2/4.4.3.1/timp.2perc.dmkit/hp/str.jazzdb [+ dance band]
- Piano
- 14 min
Programme Note
Ellington’s landmark jazz score, in which the great composer and pianist visualized a world without war, greed, and categorization, swings with a virtuoso solo piano part and lush orchestral scoring.
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New World A-Comin’ is a 1943 piano concerto in which Ellington idealistically paints a musical vision of a future world with — as he notes in his spoken introduction to the piece on a Decca/MCA Classics album — “no wars, no greed, no categorization, no non-believers [as if non-believers are inherently evil?], where love was unconditional, and no pronoun was good enough for God.” The most commonly encountered among many versions floating around, Maurice Peress’ transcription veers toward easy-listening orchestral music, leaving room for several solo cadenzas in a flowery post-Romantic style…
26th January 2022