Bay Choral Guild Presents: 400 Years of Shakespeare
Organization:
Bay Choral Guild
Category:
Concert
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
6/4/2017
End Date:
6/4/2017
Start Time:
4:30 PM
End Time:
6:30 PM
Event
Info:
Bay Choral Guild presents a delightful concert of 400 years of music based on Shakespeare's poems and plays. The songs, by composers from the 18th-21st Century, are all quite different and the music, which runs the gamut from deeply thoughtful to slapstick, is great fun to sing and enjoyable to hear.
Our commissioned work, an 8-part setting of Sonnet 60, "Like as the Waves..." is by Aaron Lington, award-winning baritone saxophonist, composer and Professor of Music at San Jose State.
Several of the works are set to music using the same text - in the case of "Blow, Blow, thou winter wind" from As You Like It, Act II, Scene vii, by composers 300 years apart - Thomas Arne 1710-1778) and Matthew Harris (b 1956). The shorter Arne composition is light and melodic, even though the text concerns ingratitude and the failure of friendship. Shakespeare's sarcastic commentary (missing from the Arne setting) is included in the Harris setting: "Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho, the holly! This life is most jolly!" Fascinating to compare the two - the affect of the Harris setting is anything but light and melodic.
Ralph Vaughn Williams is represented by three lovely songs - two from The Tempest, "Full Fathom Five" and "The Cloud-Capp'd Towers", and one from Midsummer Night's Dream - "Over Hill, Over Dale". The 21st Century includes "When time is broke", a set of three works by Cecilia McDowall combining texts from several different plays and poems into a commentary on love and relationship.
We finish with the lovely "Shall I compare thee to a sumer's day" by Nils Lindberg, the humorous "Cuckoo, Cuckoo" by Dominic DiOrio, and "Shakespeare Suite", by Nancy Wertsch, a trilogy of songs chosen to reflect youth, love and springtime in Shakespeare's England.
Tickets for all concerts are available, online or at the door of each concert location. There will be a preview lecture 30 minutes before the start of each concert.
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