Such Sweet Thunder: A Listening Session
Event Details
A Listening Session
with Courtney Bryan, Brent Hayes Edwards, and Nicole Mitchell
Renowned composers and instrumentalists Courtney Bryan and Nicole Mitchell will join Professor Brent Hayes Edwards for a live listening session featuring the Duke Ellington Orchestra’s 1957 recording of Such Sweet Thunder, sharing some of their favorite sections of Ellington’s suite and discussing some of the innovative ways Ellington and his collaborator Billy Strayhorn orchestrated their classic “tone parallel” to Shakespeare.
Friday, February 11, 2022 7pm
Virtual Event
This virtual event is free and open to everyone but registration is required.
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Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies presents a yearlong campus-wide festival of public concerts, performances, lectures, panel discussions, and an exhibition based on and inspired by Such Sweet Thunder, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s 1957 Shakespearean suite.
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