Billy Strayhorn
1915 - 1967
American
Summary
Among the works that Strayhorn composed alone or with Ellington are the classics Take the A Train, Chelsea Bridge, Passion Flower, and Johnny Come Lately.
Several of these works are available in orchestral settings from the G. Schirmer, Inc. rental library, including:
- Chelsea Bridge (1941)
Duration: ca 5'
arr. by Chuck Israels
21+ca.22/4331/timp.2perc/hp/str - Happy Go Lucky Local, from 'Deep South Suite'
Duration: 4'
arr. by Chuck Israels
2222/4331/timp.2perc/str - The Essential Ellington: The Music of Ellington and Strayhorn
Duration: 12-14'
arr. by Jeff Tyzik
2222/4331/timp.3perc.eb/pf.hp/str
Come Sunday (Introduction) * Take the A Train * Lush Life * Satin Doll * Perdido *Come Sunday * Things Ain't What They Used to Be - Satin Doll (vocal version) (1953)
Duration: 3'
arr. by Chuck Israels
Voice; 2222/4331/timp.2perc/hp/str
News
- Composers from the African Diaspora
- 17th June 2024
- Wise Music Classical is pleased to present a selection of works by composers from the African Diaspora. This resource is meant to cultivate discovery, and to establish a new canon that embodies a fuller scope of our...
- Sight and Sound
- 12th July 2020
- Music and medicine coexist in a symbiotic partnership. Because song and dance heal us, art is as necessary as medicine in the worst of times. — Brenda J. Child, Northrop Professor of American Studies...
- Tapping Ellington and Strayhorn's 'Nutcracker Suite'
- 12th December 2019
- One of the most imaginative tap choreographers working today— The New Yorker In 1960 Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn reinvented Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's holiday ballet classic, The Nutcracker...
Performances
19th April 2025
- PERFORMERS
- Symphony of Northwest Arkansas
- CONDUCTOR
- Paul Haas
- LOCATION
- Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR, United States of America
6th December 2025
- PERFORMERS
- New West Symphony
- CONDUCTOR
- Mr. Michael Christie
- LOCATION
- Bank of America PAC Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks, CA, United States of America
7th December 2025
- PERFORMERS
- New West Symphony
- CONDUCTOR
- Mr. Michael Christie
- LOCATION
- Rancho Campana High School PAC, Camarillo, CA, United States of America
Features
- Dancing Ellington
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- Sight and Sound
- In exclusive videos, four choreographers share their creative insights and musical inspirations that formed the foundations of their recent dance productions.
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