Boston, MA: The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra 41st Annual Christmas Concert is 21 December 2013!
December 16, 2013 at 7:30 AM ANNOUNCEMENT
Aardvark Jazz Orchestra - Photo: Erlyn Ordinario
The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra (Mark Harvey, founder and music director) celebrates its 41st Annual Christmas Concert December 21 at Boston’s Emmanuel Church with one of the few performances in the country of the Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn Nutcracker Suite. Called “spellbinding” by The Boston Globe, Aardvark will give a rare performance of the complete Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn arrangement (1960) of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite – an exuberant big band take on the perennial classic, in which The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy becomes the Sugar Rum Cherry, the Arabian Dance becomes Arabesque Cookie, the Russian Dance is recast as The Volga Vouty, and the Waltz of the Flowers becomes the Dance of the Floreadores.
