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Composer of the Week: Duke Ellington

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With Geoffrey Smith. Duke Ellington, who was born 100 years ago today, composed and recorded prolifically in the late fifties. He saluted
Shakespeare in his suite Such Sweet
Thunder, wrote the soundtrack to the film Anatomy of a Murder, gave
Tchaikovsky and Grieg the Ellington treatment, and paid his respects to Elizabeth II in The Queen's Suite. And in 1963 he contributed to the civil rights movement with the musical My People.

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Geoffrey Smith.
Source: Radio Times

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