"Music is my Mistress": The Life and Music of Duke Ellington

Celebrate Duke Ellington’s birthday with a journey through the career of one of the twentieth-century’s most important composers. Michael Roeder, PhD, returns to take us to the Cotton Club of 1930, move on to the great bands of around 1940 and the mid-to-late 1950s, and conclude with a brief encounter with Ellington’s ambitious sacred concerts of the ‘60s and ‘70s.