National Symphony Orchestra labors to find its groove in a program featuring works by Duke Ellington, John Adams and Adolphus Hailstork.
The National Symphony Orchestra, with soprano Katerina Burton, left, and narrator Phylicia Rashad, right, performs “JFK: The Last Speech” at the Kennedy Center.
Ellington’s gleaming portrait of a living, breathing city too often felt mottled into watercolors, and although Edusei worked hard to emulsify a consistent vibe, his results were distractingly mixed — here too slick, there too slack. A lively percussion solo by James Ritchie delivered a closing thrill, and taken together, “Harlem” was still beautiful: rich, generous, unabashed in its tenderness. But Edusei’s hand didn’t always effectively showcase Ellington’s.
Frost, as a consultant for the Library of Congress, accepted the invitation of Arizona congressman Stewart Udall to join a trip to the Soviet Union to lead discussions with writers and artists toward “constructive forms of rivalry between our two countries.” But the poet had greater ambitions. The next morning, The Washington Post’s headline sealed the poet’s blunder into history and sunk the men’s friendship. Kennedy stopped replying to Frost’s wires, sent no flowers to a hospitalized Frost in December 1962, and wouldn’t mention him until the following October, in a speech at Amherst to dedicate a new library in the poet’s name.
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