Duke Ellington Youth Festival: A Tribute to Mercer Ellington
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 / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1996 April 26
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content: Box 25, Folder 2
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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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 Friday, April 26, 1996, the University of the District of Columbia hosted A Tribute to Mercer Ellington in the University Auditorium on the Van Ness Campus. The program included a welcome, given by Spencer R. Crew; a statement of theme, given by Luvenia George; a greeting from John Conyers, Jr.; and band, ensemble, choir, and dance performances. The schools involved were Ballou Senior High School, Alice Deal Junior High School, Bell Multicultural Senior High School, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Fillmore Art Center, Fletcher-Johnson Education Center, Frederick Douglass Junior High School, Hart Junior High School, H.D. Woodson Senior High School, Kelly Miller Junior High School, Lemon G. Hine Junior High School, Lincoln Multicultural Middle School, Patricia Roberts Harris Education Center, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, School Without Walls Senior High School, Shaw Junior High School, Theodore Roosevelt High School, and Woodrow Wilson High School. 

Performances (listed in order of appearance)

Senior High School Band

"The Mooch"
"Daybreak Express"
Jazz Masterworks Editions No. 1
Music Director: Davey S. Yarborough,

String Ensemble

"Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
"I'm Beginning to See the Light"
"Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)"
Music Director: Barbara Maxwell

Junior High School Band

A Tribute to the Duke, arr. Larry Kerchner
Music Director: Edward B. Anderson,

Dance

"Such Sweet Thunder," Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
"A Little Max"
Choreographer: Peter Alex. Romero

Junior High School Choir

"Hit Me with a Hot Note and Watch Me Bounce!"
"I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart"
"Things Ain't What They Used to Be," Mercer Ellington
Music Coordinator: Patricia Braswell

Senior High School Choir

"Mood Indigo"
"Caravan"
"Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
"Solitude"
"Come Sunday"

Duke Ellington School of the Arts Show Choir

Junior/ Senior High School Choirs and Dancers

"Take the "A" Train," Billy Strayhorn
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)
Music Director: Samuel Bonds
Choreographer: Peter Alex. Romero,


Program number AC408.97.