“Such Sweet Plunder: Or Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
On Wednesday 27th April, Dr Katherine Williams will be giving a talk on Duke Ellington as part of the 2016 Words and Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare in Plymouth.
In her talk, Katherine uses Duke Ellington’s music to explore the balance of authorial power between composer, bandleader, musicians, improvisers and record producers.
This lecture is both an introduction to the forthcoming performance of the Shakespeare suite Such Sweet Thunder, and an investigation into the music and recordings of the notorious Ellington performance at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival.
Tickets are available to buy through the Peninsula Arts box office