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Women of the Windrush https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/memories-in-mind-women-of-the-windrush-tell-their-stories/

The Woman Who Refused to Dance https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/the-woman-who-refused-to-dance/

Sacred Mountain: Incidents in the Life of Queen Nanny of the Maroons https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/sacred-mountain/

Wildfire BBC Concert Orchestra 22 May 2022 8 pm and 1 am https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0017nhj/inside-classical-series-1-1-womens-words-and-voices (from 6 minutes 40 seconds)

National Windrush Monument Unveiling 22 June 2022 – Psalm to Windrush for Soprano & String Quartet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPtvf_VJmPo (from 56 mins 40 sec)

Beautiful Game – WEUROS Anthem 2022 by Shirley J. Thompson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrmQxyLEAAE

MOMENTUM: Concerto for Footballer/s for the WEUROS Arts & Heritage programme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxbur5k-JM4

Interviews about the process of recording the Anthem: https://www.rpo.co.uk/news-and-press/rpo-blog/591-uefa-women-s-euro-2022-kicks-off

Blue Iris for Solo Violin performed by Darragh Morgan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgmWo680xWM

 RPO Interview on SJT Composer in Residence WEUROS 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uFmrgICFSg

Identity & Aesthetics Interview – Sound & Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzTqBlGfbdk

Semplice Sempre – Esther Abrami with H.E.R. Ensemble July 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpdIVCVDyKA

New Nation Rising CD: A 21st Century Symphony (SP001, 2004) with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Solo Singers, Choir and Speaker

Music for the contemporary ballet, PUSH, featuring the Shirley Thompson Ensemble. MP3

Summer Notes CD & DVD: Shirley Thompson Ensemble Live in the Purcell Room

Spirit of the Middle Passage CD, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra and soloists

Diverse Orchestras DVD: BBC documentary featuring Shirley Thompson with three other British composers working innovatively with orchestral medium

The Woman Who Refused to Dance MP3: for Solo Voice, Speaker & Orchestra

Voices of Change: 100 Days of Barack Obama as President of the US, MP3.

Singing & Dancing for a Cohesive Society. MP3 of BBC Radio 3 broadcast, part of the Free Thinking

Festival 2008 of 100 British cultural leaders.

NEW NATION RISING: A 21ST CENTURY SYMPHONY DVD
PUBLICATION

The Woman Who Refused to Dance: a Musical Composition. Moving Worlds Journal of Transcultural Writings, Volume 7, no. 2, 2007. Pub. Moving Worlds, Leeds University

Shirley J. Thompson Music 2016