Name: Birmingham Royal Ballet
Address: 7 Thorp St, Birmingham, Birmingham, B5 4AU, England
Telephone: 0121 245 3500
Price range: $$

Billy Strayhorn was born in 1915 in Dayton, Ohio. In 1938 he approached Duke Ellington with one of his compositions, Lush Life’, and the two worked together from then on. Ellington and Strayhorn became so intertwined musically, it was said neither could distinguish specific contributions to pieces. He died in New York in 1967.