Details
- Instrument:
- Baritone Horn TC Cornet Euphonium Flugelhorn Percussion Trombone Bass Trombone Tuba
- Ensembles:
- Brass Band
- Composers:
- Duke Ellington
- Publishers:
- Chris Gorman
- Format:
- Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Digital
- Level:
- Late Intermediate
- Artist:
- Duke Ellington
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Number of Pages:
- 52
SKU: A0.1086327
Composed by Duke Ellington. Arranged by Chris Gorman. Jazz. Brass Band. 52 pages. Chris Gorman #690527. Published by Chris Gorman (A0.1086327).In August 1956, Duke Ellington and his orchestra were in Canada, performing in the same city as the ongoing Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Curious, Ellington and his longtime composer/arranger Billy Strayhorn talked to festival staffers, and Ellington soon announced his next album project would be a conceptual piece, paying tribute to Shakespeare's varied works with appropriate jazz compositions. In addition to the Such Sweet Thunder album, he promised the entire suite would be performed at the 1957 edition of the festival. Ellington and Strayhorn began building a home library of Shakespeare, seeking out Shakespeare experts, and reading through the canon during orchestra downtime. The title comes from Act IV scene i of A Midsummer Night's Dream, where Hippolyta says: "I never heard / So musical a discord, such sweet thunder." The suite that would constitute Such Sweet Thunder was written in just under three weeks and recorded in early 1957. Although most of the compositions were created for the suite in conjunction with Strayhorn, a few were versions of older Strayhorn songs that were reworked and re-titled for the collection.
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- Duke Ellington Duke Ellington Choir Duke Ellington Piano Duke Ellington Piano Solo
- ArrangeMe:
- Chris Gorman
- Instrument:
- Brass Baritone Horn Baritone Horn TC Brass Trumpet Cornet Brass Euphonium Brass Trumpet Flugelhorn Percussion Percussion Brass Trombone Brass Bass Trombone Brass Tuba
- Artists:
- Duke Ellington
- Ensemble:
- Brass Band
- Publisher:
- Chris Gorman