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Shakespeare's World in Concert - Harpenden Choral Society

When
Saturday April 23, 2016 at 19:30
Where
The Church of St Nicholas, Harpenden
Tickets
£15 adults; £5 children and students - includes programme and glass of wine at the interval
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  1. Salvator mundi, salva nos 1 - Thomas Tallis
  2. What is our life? - Orlando Gibbons
  3. Weep, weep mine eyes - John Wilbye
  4. Weep you no more, sad fountains - John Dowland
  5. Come, heavy sleep - John Dowland
  6. Ave verum corpus - William Byrd
  7. Chorus of Scottish Refugees, from Macbeth - Giuseppe Verdi
  8. 3 Shakespeare songs (1951) - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  9. West Side Story Choral Medley - Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, arranged by Len Thomas
  10. Excerpts, from When icicles hang - John Rutter
  11. Fantasia No 1 - John Dowland
  12. Rosa - John Danyel
  13. 5 Shakespeare Songs Op 23 - Roger Quilter
  14. It was a lover and his lasse - Thomas Morley
  15. In darkness let me dwell - John Dowland
  16. In darkness let me dwell - John Dowland
  17. Come again! Sweet love doth now invite - John Dowland
  18. Flow my tears - John Dowland

Harpenden Choral Society presents a special concert to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death featuring settings of songs from the plays and Shakespeare’s contemporaries and other music inspired by Shakespeare’s work.

From the compelling intricacies of Elizabethan madrigals to Bernstein’s lyrical re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet - West Side Story - and selections from Verdi’s magnificent operatic version of Macbeth, this concert celebrates the musical variety and influence of Shakespeare’s world. Conducted by Musical Director John Andrews, with piano accompaniment by Vivien Powles and featuring soprano Charmian Bedford and lutenist Lynda Sayce .


Venue
The Church of St Nicholas
Church Green
Harpenden
Hertfordshire
AL5 2TP
England


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