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Luther Henderson III \u201971E, \u201973E (MM) chooses Eastman\u2019s Ensemble Library as home for his father\u2019s Duke Ellington arrangements.<\/h2>\n
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HONORING A FATHER: <\/strong>\u201cMy dad was so impressed by Eastman,\u201d says Henderson III. The son of the famed orchestrator and arranger is a professor emeritus of music and humanities at Los Angeles City College, a Los Angeles real estate broker, and a former orchestrator and arranger at both the Grammy and Emmy Awards. (Kerry Lubman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Early in 1970, famed musical director and orchestrator Luther Henderson Jr. brought his new show, Purlie<\/em>, to the Eastman School of Music<\/a> at the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½<\/a>. The musical was soon to open on Broadway, and Henderson chose to iron out the kinks at the school where his son, Luther Henderson III \u201971E, \u201973E (MM), was a student.<\/p>\n

Testing a Broadway show in an out-of-town venue was a common practice, and often the conductor had to simplify parts for the less experienced orchestra. But this orchestra was composed of Eastman faculty members.<\/p>\n

Henderson III recalls his dad telling him the next day, \u201cyou\u2019re going to a better music school than I did. And I went to Juilliard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henderson III is a professor emeritus of music and humanities at Los Angeles City College. After Eastman, he earned a doctor of musical arts in orchestra conducting at the University of Texas at Austin and embarked on a career in music education.<\/p>\n

His father, who died in 2003, grew up in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem, where his neighbor was the legendary jazz pianist and composer Duke Ellington. Henderson Jr. became friends with Ellington\u2019s son, Mercer, who also went on to Julliard.<\/p>\n

In adulthood, Henderson Jr. would work closely with Ellington on projects, and Ellington often referred to Henderson Jr. as his \u201cclassical arm.\u201d Among those projects were arrangements of Ellington\u2019s compositions\u2014scores that Henderson III kept and donated to Eastman last fall.<\/p>\n

The collection, housed in the Ensemble Library<\/a>, includes 11 songs from the 2000 album Classic Ellington<\/em>. The songs were composed by Ellington and arranged and orchestrated by Henderson Jr. to commemorate Ellington\u2019s 100th birthday in 1999. They include \u201cThat Do-Wah Thing,\u201d \u201cSolitude in Transblucency,\u201d \u201cSophisticated Lady,\u201d and \u201cIsfahan.\u201d<\/p>\n

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CLASSICAL ARM, JAZZ MASTER:<\/strong> Henderson Jr., Ellington\u2019s \u201cclassical arm,\u201d also worked on more than 50 Broadway productions, including a 1988 revival of Ain\u2019t Misbehavin\u2019<\/em>, in which he was pianist, orchestrator, arranger, and musical supervisor. (New York Public Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Henderson III also donated his father\u2019s National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master<\/a> award, bestowed shortly before the elder Henderson\u2019s death, to Eastman.<\/p>\n

Eastman\u2019s Ensemble Library collection includes more than 20,000 items in fields such as orchestra, band, choral, and jazz. But the Henderson collection is different and special, says Department of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media<\/a> chair Jeff Campbell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s just not generally a lot of orchestra music produced in a jazz setting,\u201d he says. \u201cThe fact that it\u2019s produced by the father of an esteemed alumnus\u2014and it\u2019s Duke Ellington music arranged for an orchestra\u2014makes it extra special. Students will be able to study the details of this great work and have access to it. It\u2019s a significant donation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This story appears in the fall 2024 issue of <\/em>Rochester Review<\/a>, <\/em>the magazine of the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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