Spring Revolution: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
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About this performance
Brooklyn-based composer-bandleader Darcy James Argue and his innovative 18-piece big band Secret Society set will be 40-minute piece “Tensile Curves,” which was was written in honor of, and performed at, Newport’s 60th anniversary in 2014. Argue describes the work as a 40-minute meditation on Duke Ellington’s “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue,” the performance of which famously caused utter pandemonium at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival. The piece was co-commissioned by the Vancouver-based Hard Rubber Orchestra and the Newport Jazz Festival.
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