Music: TALK ‘Such Sweet Plunder: Or, Whose Line is It Anyway?’

2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare

Dr Katherine Williams, Lecturer in Music, Plymouth University

Katherine Williams 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.

Wednesday 27th April at 19.00

Free Admission

Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building