Conference, Birmingham: Day Schedule

The 25th International Duke Ellington Study Group Conference,
organized by the Duke Ellington Society UK, the Royal Birmingham
Conservatoire and the Birmingham City University School of Media.

Friday 25th May

3pm – Registration [Lower Foyer]

5pm – Welcome Speeches [Recital Hall]

6pm – Hot Buffet and refreshments provided [Foyer and Gallery Bar]

7pm – First Ellington Orchestra Show [Eastside Jazz Club]

8:15pm – Second Ellington Orchestra Show [Eastside Jazz Club]

Saturday 26th May

10am-11am – Keynote: Harvey G Cohen [Recital Hall]

11am-11: 30am – Coffee [Foyer and Gallery Bar]

11:30am-1pm – Panel A: Ellington in the Midlands [Workshop 1]                           

Pedro Cravinho, Nicolas Pillai, Helen Wheatley

Duke Ellington in Coventry: discovering television and jazz in the cathedral archive                                                                                                           
                            

11:30am-1pm – Panel B: Collaboration & process [Workshop 2]                          

 Jeremy Price,  Vic Hobson Ellington: Collective Improvisation and Arranging

Jack Chambers Celebration, Duke Ellington’s Lost Symphony

1pm – Lunch [Foyer or Gallery Bar]

2pm-3:30pm – Panel C: Sonic reverberations [Workshop 1]                        

Alyn Shipton Ellington and synaesthesia: to what extent did Duke Ellington hear sounds as colours?

Michele Corcella Beyond the Blues: Ellington’s experimentation techniques in the New Orleans Suite

2pm-3:30pm – Panel D: Social context & civil rights [Workshop 2]
David Stuart EmmersonThe Music of Duke Ellington and African American Civil Rights with particular reference to his Shakespearean Suite Such Sweet Thunder

Barry Long Ellington and Coltrane: Tone Parallels

3:30pm – Coffee [Foyer and Gallery Bar]

4pm-5:30pm – DESUK AGM [Workshop 1] & Jam Session [Eastside Jazz Club]

4pm-5:30pm – Social time [Gallery Bar] Bar food and drink available

6pm – First Ellington Orchestra Show [Eastside Jazz Club]

7:15pm – Second Ellington Orchestra Show [Eastside Jazz Club] 

Delegates make own arrangements for dinner.

Sunday 27th May10am-11am – Keynote: Katherine Williams [Recital Hall]

11am-11: 30am – Coffee [Foyer]

11:30am-1pm – Panel E: Instrumental approaches [Workshop 1]                           

 Brian Priestley Monk and Duke

Frank Griffith Clarinetta Ellingtonia

Patrick OlsenRecognising specific challenges from UK pedagogical culture for performing Ellington’s big band repertoire

11:30am-1pm – Panel F: Technology & mediation [Workshop 2]                          

Tim Wall Duke Ellington, Radio Remotes and the Mediation of Big CityNightlife, 1927-1933

Matthias HeymanPlucked Again: Ellington’s bassists and the mediation oftechnology

1pm – Closing speeches and thank you, Ellington Orchestra send off [Eastside Jazz Club]