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Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite
By Anna Harwell Celenza
Illustrated by Don Tate

Turn a classical ballet into a jazzy, dance number? Duke Ellington is up to the challenge-but is his band of jazz musicians? This book, based on accounts of actual events, explores Duke Ellington’s ideas about taking the music of Tchaikovsky's famous Nutcracker and turning it into something new-the type of music
that is beyond category!

“We came here to play Music!”
-Duke Ellington

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Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite by Anna Celenza Harwell with Illustrations by Don Tate
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