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Duke Ellington Festival Set for April
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Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington, one of this century's seminal
composers and orchestrators, will be celebrated here this April in a
month-long festival culminating in the unveiling and dedication of a
memorial plaque at his birthplace at 1217 22nd St. NW. (Located just
behind Blackie's House of Beef, it was 2129 Ward Place when Ellington
was born there on April 29, 1899.)
Although Washington's high school for the arts and a major
bridge are named after the jazz giant whose career spanned six
decades, the Duke Ellington International Festival will mark the
first time that Ellington's local ...
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