Duke Ellington - Renaissance Man, "Edward, You Are Blessed,"
Duke Ellington Youth Festival
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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: 1999 April 30
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content: Box 25, Folder 16
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: The Duke Ellington Youth Festival is an evening of performances and presentations in the visual arts by students from the Distinct of Columbia Public Schools as part of the Duke Ellington Youth Program. The Duke Ellington Youth Program was created in 1991 as an educational outreach program aimed at introducing students to the life and work of Duke Ellington using the resources of the Ellington Collection. The program aims to promote knowledge of Duke Ellington and his contributions to the field of music with consideration to the impact that his culture had on his work.  The curriculum of the program uses Ellington's music to study a variety of disciplines including music, art, English, social studies and foreign language. The Duke Ellington Youth Festival is a presentation of the projects that have been completed over the course of the Duke Ellington Youth Project. 

The participating schools were Abram Simon Elementary School, Anacostia Senior High School, Patricia R. Harris Educational Center, Frank W. Ballou Senior High School, Bell Multicultural High School, Hugh M. Browne Junior High School, Bruce Evans Middle School, Francis L. Cardozo Senior High School, Charles Hart Middle School, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Alice Deal Junior High School, Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School, Phelps Career Senior High School, School Without Walls, Eastern High School, Charles William Eliot Junior High School, Howard Dilworth Woodson Senior High School, J. Hayden Johnson Junior High School, John Philip Sousa Middle School, Stephen Elliot Kramer Middle School, Lemon G. Hine Junior High School, Lucy Ellen Moten Elementary School, Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School, Stuart-Hobson Museum Magnet Middle School, and Woodrow Wilson Senior High School.

Performances  (listed in order of appearance)

Senior High School Band

"Launching Pad" 
"I'm Beginning to See the Light"

Soloist: Alicia Jones
"Rockabye Rhythm"
Music Director: Davey Yarborough
Assistant Director: Eric McMillan

Junior High and Middle School Band

"Sophisticated Lady" 	Medley arranged by John Edmonton
"Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
"Mood Indigo" 
"Caravan"
Music Director: Edward B. Anderson

Piano Solo

"Carolina Shout," James P. Johnson 
Pianist: Daniel Moore
Duke Ellington School of the Arts

String Ensemble

"Prelude to a Kiss"
"Things Ain't What They Used to Be," Mercer Ellington
Music Director: Carolyn Bastian
Jazz Violinist and Guest Educator: Lesa Terry

Dance

"Little Max"
"Limbo Jazz"
"Freedom" (from Second Sacred Concert)
Choreographer: Peter Alexander Romero

Junior High, Middle, and Elementary School Choir

"Hit Me with a Hot Note and Watch Me Bounce"
"Come Sunday" from First Sacred Concert
"Duke's Place" (C Jam Blues)
Music Director: Patricia Braswell

Piano Solo

"Single Petal of a Rose" from The Queen's Suite
Nicole Green, Duke Ellington School of the Arts

Senior High School Choir

"I'm Just a Lucky So and So"
"Caravan"
"I Got it Bad and That Ain't Good"
Music Director: Samuel L. E. Bonds,
Assistant Director: Anita Jones,

Duke Ellington School of the Arts Show Choir

"Take the "A" Train," Billy Strayhorn
"The Beauty of God" (from Third Sacred Concert), arranged by Roland Carter
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got that Swing)" 
Music Director: Samuel L. E. Bonds

Program number AC408.109.