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Canadian arts series. This episode, profiling the music of Duke Ellington, includes two pieces (7 mins in total) from Ellington’s original score for Michael Langham’s 1963 staging of Timon of Athens at...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Radio programme presenting extracts from Shakespeare’s plays in 21 different languages. According to the programme information, this encompasses "Romeo wooing Juliet in Chinese, German, Arabic, Hungarian...
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...
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.
Radio broadcast. Poetry, prose and music inspired by Shakespeare, including words by Ted Hughes, Margaret Atwood, T.S. Eliot, Carol Ann Duffy and W.B. Yeats, and music by Sibelius, Elvis Costello, Duke...
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