Music: Such Sweet Thunder - Duke Ellington’s twelve part suite based on the work of William Shakespeare.

2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare

Such Sweet Thunder is among the most masterful of the many suites composed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, his most frequent and significant collaborator. It was commissioned in 1956 by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Such Sweet Thunder and premiered to critical acclaim on 28 April, 1957, the night before Ellington turned 58, at New York’s Town Hall.

The programme will also include Duke Ellington classics Take the A Train, Caravan, Mood Indigo and It Don't Mean A Thing

Saturday 30th April at 19.30

Tickets £10, £8 Friends of Peninsula Arts
Ticket discounts available via Artory App

Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building