The Barzillai Lew Project – A Duke Ellington Concert
Richard and Nancy Donahue Family Academic Arts Center Central Street 240, Lowell, MA, United StatesThe Forgotten Hero Who Inspired Duke Ellington. In 1942, the renown Duke Ellington composed a piano piece in Barzillai Lew’s honor, likely inspired by stories Ellington encountered while studying with the pioneering historian Carter G. Woodson. The musical score of this work, first retrieved and digitized from the Smithsonian American History Museum for this project, […]