WATCH: CCM's Essentially Ellington Gala concert available online
Enjoy the digital performance and join us for the Jazz Orchestra's next concert in-person Sept. 19.
UC College-Conservatory of Music's virtual performance of the Essentially Ellington Gala concert is now available for on-demand viewing. The performance features the CCM Jazz Orchestra performing Duke Ellington's Rockabye River, Launching Pad, Diminuendo/Crescendo in Blue and more swinging hits by legendary jazz artists.
CCM Professor and Director of Jazz Studies Scott Belck is the music director and conductor of the performance. See below for complete program details and information for the digital concert, which was originally broadcast on August 25, 2021.
All episodes of CCMONSTAGE Online can be digitally streamed for free. After the premiere broadcast, each installment in this series will remain available for on-demand viewing on CCM’s website, YouTube channel and Facebook page.
CCM’s Essentially Ellington Gala was recorded live in CCM’s Corbett Auditorium on April 18, 2021. Performances observed all of the COVID Careful protocols that were required at the time of recording. Video production by MasseyGreenAVP, LLC. This digital performance series is made possible by support from CCMONSTAGE Online Broadcast Sponsors CCMpower and ArtsWave, and CCMONSTAGE Online Production Sponsors Dr. & Mrs. Carl G. Fischer.
CCM welcomes audiences back to our events
Join us for the CCM Jazz Orchestra's opening performance at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 19 in Corbett Auditorium. Featuring Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Chip McNeill and the music of Michael Becker and Jaco Pastorius. Buy tickets online.
View CCM's lineup of ticketed September and October performances.
Essentially Ellington Gala Streaming Premiere
7:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Performance Details
Essentially Ellington Gala (recorded on Sunday, April 18, 2021)
Featuring the CCM Jazz Orchestra
Scott Belck, music director and conductor
Repertoire
Boomerang
Billy Byers
Rockabye River
Duke Ellington
Hot Lips
Henry Busse, Henry Lange and Lou Davis, arr. Benny Carter
Lindy Hopper’s Delight
Eddie Barefield and Teddy McRae
Sorcery (a.k.a. Sassy)
Billy Byers
Moten Swing
Buster and Benny Moten, arr. Ernie Wilkins
Stairway to the Stars
Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli and Mitchell Parish, arr. Vaughan F. Wiester
Launching Pad
Duke Ellington and Clark Terry
New Orleans Suite IV – “Thanks for the Beautiful Land on the Delta”
Duke Ellington
Blue Cellophane
Duke Ellington
Diminuendo/Crescendo in Blue
Duke Ellington
CCM Jazz Orchestra
Saxophones
Ricky Roshell, lead alto
Mathew Wallenhorst, alto
Christian Paradiso, tenor
Lee Sullivan, tenor
Tyler Remagen, baritone
Trumpets
Brent Proseus, lead
Taylor Yarborough
Jack Phillips
Myles Twitty
Trombones
Anthony Bryson
Ian Elick
Wade Goodwin, bass
Rhythm Section
Chris Caporale, piano
Mason Daugherty, bass
Derek Johnson, drums
Graduate Assistants
Anthony Bryson
Ben Crowder
Mason Daugherty
Ian Elick
Brent Proseus
Tyler Remagen
Ricky Roshell
Video Production
MasseyGreenAVP, llc
Director: John Massey
Producer: Matt Green
Camera Operators
John Tapogna
Glenn Hartong
Matt Green
John Massey
Editor/Assistant Producer
Austin Maynard
Production Assistant
Derek Sims
Audio Engineers
Simón Sotelo, Director of Recording Production and Adjunct Instructor of Digital Audio
Matthew Tibbs, Assistant Professor of Sound Design
Mixer: Joel Crawford (www.joelcrawfordrecording.com)
Monitor Mix: Alex Brock
Audio Technician: Aaron Harris Woodstein
Senior Director of Performance Operations
Rayburn Dobson
CCMONSTAGE Online Series Concept Developed and Managed by
Curt Whitacre
CCM Digital Content Team
Kenneth D. Allen
Clarence M. Brown
Kevin Burke
Rebecca Butts
Rayburn Dobson
Mikki Graff
Melissa Neeley-Nicolini
Jeanne Rose
Simón Sotelo
Stephanie Temeles
Curt Whitacre
CCM Dean | Thomas James Kelly Professor of Music
Stanley E. Romanstein, PhD
UC Alumni Association Executive Director
Jennifer L. Heisey
UC Foundation President
Peter E. Landgren
UC President
Neville G. Pinto, PhD
Louise Dieterle Nippert Trust
Scholarship and Resident Artist Sponsor
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Patricia Kisker Foundation
CSO/CCM Diversity Fellowship Sponsors
The Corbett Endowment at CCM
Dance Department Sponsor
All-Steinway School Sponsor
H. Wayne Ferguson Family Foundation
Louise H. & David S. Ingalls Foundation, Inc.
Community Partners
The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation, Ritter & Randolph, LLC, Corporate Counsel
Visiting Artists & Thinking About Music Sponsor
CCMpower: Friends and Alumni Fueling the Future of the Arts
ArtsWave: Funding Arts, Fueling Community
CCMONSTAGE ONLINE Broadcast Sponsors
Dr. & Mrs. Carl G. Fischer
CCMONSTAGE ONLINE Production Sponsors
Elizabeth C.B. & Paul G. Sittenfeld
Musical Theatre Showcase Sponsor
Genevieve Smith
Opera Production Sponsor
An Anonymous Donor
Estate of Mr. William A. Friedlander
Mrs. William A. Friedlander
Dr. Randolph L. Wadsworth
Judith Schonbach Landgren and Peter Landgren
Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Santen
Elizabeth C.B. & Paul G. Sittenfeld
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman
Dr. & Mrs. Theodore W. Striker
Mrs. Harry M. Hoffheimer
Ariel Quartet Sponsors
Jan Rogers
Willard and Jean Mulford Charitable Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation
Choral Studies Sponsors
Robert & Debra Chavez
Three Arts Scholarship Fund
CCMpower Partners
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Hirschhorn
Orchestral Sponsor
Mr. & Mrs. James L. Miller
Musical Theatre Production Sponsor
Graeter’s Ice Cream
Greg Mathein
Musical Theatre Performance Sponsors
Louis and Susan Meisel
Piano Department Sponsors
CCMpower: Friends and Alumni Fueling the Future of the Arts
Richard E. Thornburgh
Jeff Thomas Catering
Trish and Rick Bryan
The Harmony Endowment Fund: Challenging Hate and Prejudice Through the Performing Arts
The Castleberry Family
KMK Law
Paula Boggs Muething and Brian Muething
Sandra and Stephen Joffe
Patti Myers and Alan Flaherty
Graeter’s Ice Cream
Al. Neyer
Taft Law
Truepoint Wealth Counsel
Kenton Shaw Interior Design
Waldman & Company, CPAs
Event Sponsors
About the Series
CCMONSTAGE Online is a series of free digital concerts and performing arts presentations showcasing the unparalleled artistry and expertise of CCM's students, faculty and staff. Enjoy a teaser of our first four episodes:
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The synergy created by housing CCM within a comprehensive public university gives the college its unique character and defines its objective: to educate and inspire the whole artist and scholar for positions on the world stage.
For more information, please visit us online at ccm.uc.edu.
Featured image at the top: CCM Jazz Orchestra on stage during the Essentially Ellington Gala. Photo/MasseyGreenAVP
Additional Contacts
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whitaccp@ucmail.uc.edu | 513-556-2683
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