Duke Ellington Youth Festival
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1997-04
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content: Box 25, Folder 8
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: The Program in African American Culture and the Duke Ellington Collection
National Museum of American in partnership with the District of Columbia Public Schools featured the creative talents of the students. Teachers challenged students to create projects encompassing themes in literature, art, dance, social studies, foreign languages, drama and music. On Thursday, April 24, 1997, the University of the District of Columbia hosted The Keeper of the Flame: Mercer Kennedy Ellington in the University Auditorium on the Van Ness Campus. The program included an opening, given by Niani Kilkenny; a welcome from Martha Morris; greetings from John Conyers, Jr.; and ensemble, band, dance, and choir performances. The schools involved were Alice Deal Junior High School, Ballou Senior High School, Bell Multicultural Senior High School, Coolidge Senior High School, Douglass Junior High School, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Dunbar Senior High School, Hardy Middle School/Fillmore Arts Center at Rosario, Fletcher/Johnson Educational Center, P. R. Harris Education Center, Hart Junior High School, L.G. Hine Junior High School, Evans Middle School/Kelly Miller Junior High School, Roper Middle School, Shaw Junior High School, School Without Walls, Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, and H. D. Woodson Senior High School. 

Performances (listed in order of appearance)

String Ensemble

"I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good:
"I'm Beginning to See the Light"
Coordinator: Joe Theiman

Junior High/Middle School Band

"Sophisticated Lady Medley" arranger John Edmonton
"Don't Get Around Too Much Anymore"
"Mood Indigo" 
"Caravan"
"Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Lady: 
Music Director: Edward B. Anderson

Senior High School Band

"Harlem Airshaft"
"Solitude"
"Rocking in Rhythm"
Selections are form the Wynton Marsalis Lincoln Center Collection
Music Director: Davey S. Yarborough

Dance

"A Little Max"
"Such Sweet Thunder" (from the Shakespearean Suite) 
Choreographer: Peter Alex Romero
Costumes: Jaqueline Duhart

Junior High/ Middle School Choir

"Praise God and Dance" (from The Sacred Concerts) 
"Just a-Sittin' and a-Rockin'"
"Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
Coordinator: Patricia Braswell

Senior High School Choir

"Something 'Bout Believin'" (from The Sacred Concerts) 
"Father Forgive" (from The Sacred Concerts)
"The Beauty of God" (from The Sacred Concerts), arranger Roscoe Gill
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got that Swing)" arranger. Mac Huff
Music Director: Samuel L.E. Bonds 	

Program number AC0408.101.