Sacred Concert (Ellington)

Sacred Concert by Duke Ellington is one of the following realizations:

  • 1965 – Concert of Sacred Music
  • 1968 – Second Sacred Concert
  • 1973 – Third Sacred Concert

Ellington called these concerts "the most important thing I have ever done". He said many times that he was not trying to compose a Mass. The critic Gary Giddins has characterized these concerts as Ellington bringing the Cotton Club revue to the church.

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