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Celenza, Anna Harwell

Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite

32 pp. | Charlesbridge | November, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-1-57091-700-4 $19.95
(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Don Tate. In 1960, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn composed a jazz rendition of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. They performed it in Las Vegas to amused and enthusiastic audiences. Celenza's text is appropriately jazzy, and Tate's curvy illustrations evoke the swing of the music. The true story is enhanced by the accompanying CD; the Sugar Plum Fairy morphs into Sugar Rum Cherry.
Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo

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