Duke Ellington Youth Festival, Celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month
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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: 2002 April 25
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content: Box 26, Folder 4
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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. 

. For the eleventh anniversary of the Duke Ellington Youth Festival, Jazz Appreciation Month was celebrated on Thursday, April 25, 2002, in the Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution. The program included opening remarks from Niani Kilkenny and Edward Kennedy Ellington II; a welcome from Marc Pachter; greetings from Anthony A. Williams, Paul Vance, Tonya Jordan, and Luvenia A. George; presentation of awards; and performances. The honorary festival co-chairs were Gaye Ellington and Edward Kennedy Ellington II. The special awardees were Lilla Smith, Marie R. Johnson, Delois Jones, Barbara Lois Fullard, Samuel L. E. Bonds, Edward Anderson, James Cunningham, and Reuben M. Jackson.

The  schools that participated in the program included Fillmore Arts Center, Hardy Middle School, Fletcher-Johnson Educational Centers, P. R. Harris Educational Centers, Garfield Elementary School, Garrison Elementary School, Janney Elementary School, Kimball Elementary School, John O. Wilson Elementary School, Lucy Moten Elementary School, McCogney Elementary School, Rudolph Elementary School, Simon Elementary School, Thomson Elementary School,  Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, Evans Middle School, Garnet-Patterson Middle School, Kramer Middle School, Lincoln Multicultural Middle School, MacFarland Middle School, Ronald Brown Middle School (formerly Roper), John Phillip Sousa Middle School, Stuart-Hobson Museum Magnet School, Browne Junior High School, Alice Deal Junior High School, Frederick Douglass Junior High School, Eliot Junior High School, Hart Junior High School, Hine Junior High School, Jefferson Junior High School, J. H. Johnson Junior High School, Kelly Miller Junior High School, Shaw Junior High School, Anacostia Senior High School, Ballou Senior High School, Banneker Senior High School, Bell Multicultural Senior High School, Cardozo Senior High School, Coolidge Senior High School, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School, Eastern Senior High School, McKinley/Penn Senior High School, Roosevelt Senior High School, School Without Walls, Spingarn Senior High School, and Woodrow Wilson Senior High School.

Performances (listed in order of appearance) 

Junior High and Middle School Band

Salute to the Duke, arranger, Michael Sweeny
"Satin Doll"
"Mood Indigo" 
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got that Swing)"
Richard Gill, Music Director

Senior High Jazz Orchestra with Strings

"Such Sweet Thunder" (from Shakespearean Suite) Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
"Things Ain't What They Used to Be" Mercer Ellington, arranger by Duke Ellington
Davey S. Yarborough, Music Director
Eddie Drennon, String Instructor and Arranger

Junior High, Middle School and Elementary School Choir

"Take the "A" Train" Billy Strayhorn 
"I Like the Sunrise" (from Liberian Suite) Duke Ellington 
A Salute to Louis Armstrong
"Hello, Dolly" Jerry Herman
"When the Saints Go Marching In" Traditional 
Thomasena Allen, Coordinator
Diedre Neal Choreography
Mark Tatum, Drums

Senior High School Choir

"New York State of Mind" Billy Joel 
"Undecided" Sid Robin and Charles Shavers
"Ain't Misbehavin" Andy Razaf, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Harry Brooks
Samuel L.E. Bonds, Music Director

Jazz Dance Celebration

"Cresendo in Tap" Music by Duke Ellington 
Maud Arnold, Dancer
Charles Augins, Instructor

Duke Ellington School of the Arts Show Choir

Selections from Black, Not So Blue
A musical and dramatic review of African American success stories in the 20th century. From the original play by Fred Leigh
Samuel L. E. Bonds, Music Director
  
Program number AC408.118.