Duke Chapel Spring Oratorio: Our First Lady of Jazz

Duke University Chapel

Our First Lady of Jazz: Celebrating Mary Lou Williams

Sunday 14 April, 2024 at 4pm

401 Chapel Drive

Durham, NC 27708

Chapel.duke.edu/music

MUSIC FOR PEACE

BLACK CHRIST OF THE ANDES

Mary Lou Williams

COME SUNDAY

Duke Ellington

GOSPEL MASS

Robert Ray

The Duke Chapel Choir joins forces with a host of guest artists to present “Our First Lady of Jazz,” a concert blending vocal jazz, gospel, spirituals, and the blues in a celebration of Black sacred music, featuring the works of Mary Lou Williams.
The program will include excerpts from Williams’s albums Music for Peace (Mary Lou’s Mass) and Black Christ of the Andes, as well as works by Duke Ellington and Robert Ray.

For more information about this concert, visit chapel.duke.edu/music