Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

8/1/2004 - 7/31/2006

Funding Totals

$200,000.00 (approved)
$200,000.00 (awarded)


Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life

FAIN: GN-50310-04

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (Brooklyn, NY 11201-8301)
Robert S. Levi (Project Director: November 2003 to December 2006)

Production and post-production of a 90-minute documentary film about musician Billy Strayhorn, who worked as Duke Ellington's co-composer and arranger from 1938 to 1967.





Associated Products

Billy Strayhorn, Lush Life (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Billy Strayhorn, Lush Life
Writer: Robert Levi
Abstract: Peabody Award
Year: 2008

Prizes

Peabody Award
Date: 1/1/2008
Organization: University of Georgia, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication