'BSO: Duke Ellington's Nutcracker' with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Step Afrika! at Strathmore
"There are two kinds of music, good music and the other kind," big band leader, composer and D.C. native son Duke Ellington famously said. In 1960 he turned to Russian powerhouse Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky to inspire his re-imaging of the 1892 ballet warhorse The Nutcracker. Today, Tchaikovsky's melodies are ubiquitous in North America from Thanksgiving through […] The post ‘BSO: Duke Ellington’s Nu…