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Zodiac Suite
By Mary Lou Williams
The United States Air Force Band
Col. Don Schofield, conductor
Aaron Diehl Trio
The United States Air Force Band and Washington Performing Arts presents the Aaron Diehl Trio and The United States Air Force Band for a one-night concert event and D.C. premiere of Williams’s celestial “Zodiac Suite” as she imagined it.
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