- 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
- 10th January 2025, Perelman Theater Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
- 15th March 2025, Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, BALTIMORE, MD, United States of America
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.