PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Delfeayo Marsalis to Bring Ellington to Mondavi Center

The greatest playwright of the English language will meet some of today's finest jazz musicians when Delfeayo Marsalis and his band bring Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder to the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis. The work, a 12-part suite inspired by the poetry and plays William Shakespeare, which has been called "one of the most remarkable orchestral pieces in all of American music by critic A.B. Spellman, will be played by an eight-piece band in arrangement...

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