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Prof. Yehuda Sommer Cohen, the Dean of Ono\u2019s Jonathan Wohl School of Music, has recently published a book entitled, \u201cDuke Ellington: A Musician in the Service of His People.\u201d\u00a0 The book, published by Ortav, describes how Duke Ellington used music to support the struggle of African-Americans in the United States. Prof. Summer Cohen began his study of Ellington decades ago, as a student at Berklee College of Music in Boston.\u00a0 He continued to perform and conduct Ellington\u2019s compositions at venues around Israel, and now has written a definitive book on the subject, one of the few Hebrew-language publications in the field of jazz.\u00a0 The book has gotten rave reviews from Israel\u2019s premier arbiters of culture and widespread coverage in the country\u2019s foremost media outlets such as:<\/p>\n
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Prof. Yehuda Sommer Cohen, the Dean of Ono\u2019s Jonathan Wohl School of Music, has recently published a book entitled, \u201cDuke Ellington: A Musician in the Service of His People.\u201d\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":207,"template":"","class_list":["post-26746","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}