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"Black Composers In Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis, 1959"


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Last week's show, exploring Ellington's score for the 1959 Otto Preminger film Anatomy Of A Murder and Lewis' score for Robert Wise's Odds Against Tomorrow, made the same year, is up for online listening:

Black Composers In Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis, 1959

 

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9 hours ago, AllenLowe said:

really? That's some of his best music -

Oh, no one was criticizing the music.  They were questioning Ellington's dramatic instincts, because of how the music was placed.  Someone other than Ellington made the decision to change the placement of the music.

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