SUCH SWEET THUNDER LIVE
Grammy-nominated trumpeter Jon Faddis leads an all-star big band at Miller Theatre at Columbia University in a performance of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's 1957 Shakespearean suite, Such Sweet Thunder. “Somehow, I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself,” Ellington wrote in the program for the first full performance of the "sweet" at the 1957 Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Stratford, Ontario. “He’d appreciate the combination of team spirit and informality, of academic knowledge and humor, of all the elements that go into a great jazz performance.” Pieces include "The Star-Crossed Lovers," "Lady Mac," and the musical sonnet "Sonnet in Search of a Moor."
Tickets: $7 - $10
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Please note that a mask and proof of vaccination will be required to enter along with your ID.
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Support for our Such Sweet Thunder Project is provided by Columbia University Office of the President, African American and African Diaspora Studies, English and Comparative Literature, Core Curriculum, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Jerome A. Chazen, Miller Theatre, Gabriella and Michael Block, Crystal McCrary and Raymond J. McGuire, 92nd Street Y, Harlem Stage and The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.
