by Duke Ellington.
Σε αυτή τη Jazz όπερα ο Duke Ellington κάνει ουσιαστικά μια δική του αφήγηση της ιστορίας, η καλύτερα μιας ιστορίας, για την προέλευση και τη φύση της Jazz. Προσωποποιεί αίτια, συναισθήματα κι αποτελέσματα και στη συνέχεια εμπλέκει τα πρόσωπα αυτά σε "εσωτερικούς" διαλόγους και μονολόγους.
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A Drum Is A Woman is one of Ellington's most complicated fantasies. It is also one of his most self-revealing works. It is an allegory paralleling the history of jazz, as he described it, in which an elaborately fabricated drum is turned into a very sophisticated lady who travels from Africa to the Caribbean to New Orleans to New York City and finally to the moon, meeting in each place a simple man always named Joe, and touching him with her spell before leaving him for the next Joe. The idea was first suggested by Duke to Orson Welles in 1941, set aside, but never forgotten. One explanation of Ellington's prolific output is that he never abandoned an idea just because nobody reacted favorably to it. Only time kept all his dreams from being realized, and there was never enough of that. He used to tell me about a ballet idea he had involving an ex-beautician from Harlem who became the queen of a West Indian island. She dazzled her subjects by changing the color of the ocean around them as often as she had once changed the colors of her customers' hair. The story had every Ellington element in it.
by Irving Townsend
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Συστήνω ανεπιφύλακτα την εκτέλεση του Claude Bolling παρότι η αφήγηση είναι στα γαλλικά.
κι ένα μικρό δείγμα απ' την ορχήστρα του TONY FAULKNER. Δυστυχώς ο ήχος δε βοηθάει στη δημιουργία της κατάλληλης "ατμόσφαιρας".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIikXOy3d80
Σε αυτή τη Jazz όπερα ο Duke Ellington κάνει ουσιαστικά μια δική του αφήγηση της ιστορίας, η καλύτερα μιας ιστορίας, για την προέλευση και τη φύση της Jazz. Προσωποποιεί αίτια, συναισθήματα κι αποτελέσματα και στη συνέχεια εμπλέκει τα πρόσωπα αυτά σε "εσωτερικούς" διαλόγους και μονολόγους.
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A Drum Is A Woman is one of Ellington's most complicated fantasies. It is also one of his most self-revealing works. It is an allegory paralleling the history of jazz, as he described it, in which an elaborately fabricated drum is turned into a very sophisticated lady who travels from Africa to the Caribbean to New Orleans to New York City and finally to the moon, meeting in each place a simple man always named Joe, and touching him with her spell before leaving him for the next Joe. The idea was first suggested by Duke to Orson Welles in 1941, set aside, but never forgotten. One explanation of Ellington's prolific output is that he never abandoned an idea just because nobody reacted favorably to it. Only time kept all his dreams from being realized, and there was never enough of that. He used to tell me about a ballet idea he had involving an ex-beautician from Harlem who became the queen of a West Indian island. She dazzled her subjects by changing the color of the ocean around them as often as she had once changed the colors of her customers' hair. The story had every Ellington element in it.
by Irving Townsend
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Συστήνω ανεπιφύλακτα την εκτέλεση του Claude Bolling παρότι η αφήγηση είναι στα γαλλικά.
κι ένα μικρό δείγμα απ' την ορχήστρα του TONY FAULKNER. Δυστυχώς ο ήχος δε βοηθάει στη δημιουργία της κατάλληλης "ατμόσφαιρας".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIikXOy3d80