JFK: The Last Speech with Phylicia Rashad Kevin John Edusei conducts Adams, Ellington & Hailstork | Kennedy Center, Washington, DC Tickets 2024
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JFK: The Last Speech with Phylicia Rashad Kevin John Edusei conducts Adams, Ellington & Hailstork

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Be among the first to hear this powerful new NSO co-commission, performed on the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 speech at Amherst College. The program also includes Duke Ellington’s swinging trip to Jazz-age Harlem and John Adams’ Harmonielehre, inspired by the composer’s vision of an oil tanker blasting into space.

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2 dates (26 Oct - 28 Oct)

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