Thomas Brothers

“Help!’ The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration,” will be held from 5-9 p.m. Saturday, April 2, at Calvary Episcopal Church Hall in Fletcher.

Tickets are $75 and available through the Asheville Symphony Guild, ashevillesymphonyguild.org.

A presentation by Thomas Brothers, author of “Help! The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration,” will be followed by live music of the Beatles and Duke Ellington, performed by jazz pianist Michael Jefry Stevens of Black Mountain and his jazz ensemble.

Brothers is the author of four books, including “Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2014. At Duke, he teaches in the areas of medieval, renaissance, jazz, African-American music and the Beatles.

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Sally Buckridge

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