This composer introduced his piece “Chinoiserie” (“shin-WAH-zeh-ree”) with a quote from Marshall McLuhan. For another piece, this composer emulated iambic pentameter in the structure of four “sonnets,” including “Sonnet for Hank Cinq” (“hank sank”). This composer collaborated with the singer Alice Babs in his second and third “Sacred Concerts.” Queen Elizabeth II received the only copy of a record credited to this composer that contains the piano ballad “The Single Petal of a Rose.” This composer and his orchestra adapted Shakespeare in the suite Such Sweet Thunder and depicted their travels of Asia in Far East Suite. Mahalia Jackson’s vocals and Johnny Hodges’s saxophone appear on this man’s popular version of “Come Sunday,” part of his composition about African-American history, Black, Brown, and Beige. For 10 points, name this bandleader who worked with Billy Strayhorn on a jazz standard about traveling to Harlem titled “Take the ‘A’ Train.” ■END■
ANSWER: Duke Ellington [or Edward Kennedy Ellington] (The first line refers to his Afro-Eurasian Eclipse.)
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