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Made during the early years of the movie musical, this was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then...
Television programme. Broadcast as part of the television programmes marking the fourth centenary of Shakespeare’s birth. Cleo Laine and John Dankworth perform Shakespeare’s songs. Narrated by Tony...
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...
Television documentary made exclusively for BBC Knowledge. Richard Eyre examines Shakespeare’s contribution to literature and talks to renowned actors about their interpretations of his work. Peter Hall...
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...
Irregularly scheduled series of musical specials featuring Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Bernstein compares the beat in Shakespeare’s verse to rhythms in jazz, Beethoven’s...
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...
A new jazz work by Ken Rattenbury inspired by the ‘seven ages of man’ speech from As You Like It. The soliloquy is spoken by Alan Reeve-Jones and the music is conducted by the composer.
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...
Regional television broadcast. Cleo Laine sings Shakespeare’s words set to music by Johnny Dankworth. Simon Callow reads from the sonnets.
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