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Mercedes Ellington on Such Sweet Thunder |
Mercedes Ellington spoke with documentary producer Richard Paul about her grandfather Duke Ellington’s 1957 Shakespeare-inspired jazz suite, Such Sweet Thunder.
I never heard
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.—Hippolyta, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 4, scene 1
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Mercedes Ellington
Choreographer and director The origins of Such Sweet Thunder
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Ellington’s names for the sections of the suite
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