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Dead Elvis (composition)
Dead Elvis is a work for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass and percussion, composed in 1993 by Michael Daugherty, associate professor of music at the University of Michigan. It uses a medieval Latin chant for the Day of Judgment as the principal musical theme and pits two different Elvis Presley images: "the hip, beautiful, genius, thin, rock-and-roll Elvis vs.
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