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12 results found for '"Duke Ellington"' in Person.
From Bards to Blues (2007 Radio)
aka: BBC Proms 2007 Prom 35
A live transmission from the 2007 Proms, presented by Geoffrey Smith. Jazz musicians John Dankworth and Cleo Laine celebrate their 80th birthdays with a combination of Shakespeare and jazz. Dankworth...
Arrangers Anonymous. Part 2 (2006 Radio)
- Series
- Jazz File
- Producer
- Graham Pass
A four-part series, presented by Russell Davies, which analyses and deconstructs a selection of outstanding jazz scores, discovering how each arrangement actually works and what was in the mind of the...
Play on! (2000 Television)
- Series
- Great Performances
- Director
- Gary Halvorson
Television version of the musical play based on the book by Cheryl L. West and adapted for the stage by West and Sheldon Epps. Twelfth Night, with an all African-American cast, is transformed into a romantic...
Such Sweet Thunder (1999 Audio)
Sound recording. Duke Ellington’s suite, in collaboration with Billy Strayhorn, in tribute to Shakespeare, commissioned by, and dedicated to, the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. It was premiered...
Timon of Athens (1999 Video)
- Director
- Gregory Doran
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 production of Timon of Athens. Directed by Gregory Doran with Michael Pennington as Timon.
Play on! (1997 Video)
- Director
- Sheldon Epps; Richard Stucker
Twelfth Night, with an all African-American cast, is transformed into a romantic fable set in 1940s Harlem using Duke Ellington songs as its score. The play was directed for stage by Sheldon Epps and for...
Timon of Athens (1993 Video)
- Director
- Michael Langham
Videorecording of the play performed by the National Actors Theatre. Music adapted by Stanley Silverman and directed for stage by Michael Langham and for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker....
Timon of Athens (1993 Audio)
Duke Ellington composed incidental music for a Timon of Athens production at the Stratford (Ontario) Festival in 1963. Ellington’s sketches and partial score remained in the Stratford archives since then...
Timon of Athens (1991 Video)
- Director
- Michael Langham
Video recording of Michael Langham’s 1991 production of Timon of Athens for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with Brian Bedford in the title role.
Shakespeare is Dug by the Craziest of Cats (1967 Multimedia, Radio)
Extract from a CBC radio broadcast. Duke Ellington had just completed his Shakespearean jazz suite Such Sweet Thunder which was commissioned by the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. The suite...