Seating: General Seating
Additional Performances:
Saturday, April 27—7:30PM Benefit Concert
On the occasion of Harlem Stage’s 40th Anniversary, pianist, composer, and educator Jason Moran — “an artist with an eye for connections among the past, present, and future” (The New York Times) — reimagines Pianos For Duke, a Harlem Stage program dedicated to the music of Duke Ellington, first presented at our previous home Aaron Davis Hall in 1999. Moran performed in the ’99 program, at the time a young up-and-coming pianist, featured alongside superstars of the instrument.
Now, 25 years later — on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Ellington’s birth — Moran guest curates an intimate evening of Ellington’s music in the round, with a single piano in the center of the room, and invites legendary jazz pianist Abdullah
Ibrahim, and other acclaimed pianists, including Bertha Hope, Joanne Brackeen, and pianist Micah Thomas, to join him in the celebratory performance.
This program is supported, in part, by, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
This program is also supported, in part, by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Diana King Memorial Fund presented by the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation.
