Shakespeare and Experimental Baroque

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Shakespeare and Experimental Baroque highlights cutting edge vocal, lute and guitar music from the 17th-18th centuries when much of Baroque music was controversial and new. Honoring William Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary (April 23, 1616), our program opens with High Renaissance songs from Shakespeare’s plays and closes with High Baroque settings of Shakespeare texts. Experimental Italian songs that were considered radical at the start of the 17th century will form the center of the concert featuring 'Canzonetta La Nonna’ by Tarquinio Merula. Later in the 17th Century, Purcell took Italian experimental chromaticism
to heart in his heart-rending lament The Plainte (O Let me Weep) from his own adapted version of Shakespeare’s 'The Fairy Queen’. Elizabeth Hungerford’s clarion voice will illuminate Shakespeare’s words and bring them to life.
REMEMBERING SHAKESPEARE, a presentation by UCSC’s Literature Department, will be in the Recital Hall at 6pm featuring readings by and about The Man by actors and literary figures. It will replace the usual pre-concert talk. It is also a free event and open to the public. Shakespeare Workshop and Porter College, both headed by Provost Sean Keilan, will be sponsoring a reception of food and drink following our concert, hoping to put the “fun” back in funeral! So, bring a picnic dinner and enjoy both of these glorious events celebrating a major historical figure in Western Art history.

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http://www.scbaroque.org

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