Just Williams
A cast list of characters called William; authors from Boyd, William Carlos Williams, CK, Will Harris; to composers and performers like Byrd, William Grant Still, Mary Lou Williams
Actors William Gaminara and Rose Williams bring us an array of characters called Bill or William, and writing from William Boyd’s spy novel Restless to American poet Billy Collins’ poem The Best Cigarette, Wordsworth and Blake to Will Harris and Richmal Crompton’s “Just William”.
Musically, we move from the folk song about Barbara Allen and Sweet William to Nat King Cole’s version of Sweet William, through Roderick Williams’s re-arrangement of William Byrd’s Ave Verum Corpus to William Grant Still’s Prayer from his Symphony No. 3. Plus Grace Williams’ Calm Sea in Summer, Harry Gregson Williams’ music for Chicken Run and American jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams Walkin’ and Swingin’.
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