Shakespeare: Songs, Sonnets and Soliliquies
ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir presents “Shakespeare: Songs, Sonnets and Soliloquies”
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Broomfield Auditorium
3 Community Park Road
7:30 PM
Tickets: $12 Adults, $8 Seniors/Students (Tickets available at the door)
A select group of ASTER singers will present choral and solo settings of some of Shakespeare’s greatest texts by composers Amy Beach, John Govedas, Clifton Noble Jr., Roger Quilter and others. Young thespians from Broomfield will perform favorite monologues and sonnets in costume. Special guest Larisa Kholodnaya will perform Charles Gounod’s “Je veux vivre†from his operatic setting of Romeo and Juliet.
For additional information please call Christina Lynn-Craig at (303) 466-2879.
There are many different ways to set the music in Shakespeare’s words. From the highly dramatic to the fanciful and romantic, Shakespeare has it all. Many of his plays include words which were to be sung, and composers from Shakespeare’s time on have delighted in putting their own stamp on these classic lyrics .
ASTER members agree that the music we are singing for this concert is some of the best we have ever done. The combination of Amy Beach’s prim and proper settings of fairy songs, to John Govedas’ wild and witchy setting of the Three Hags’ Haggis from Mac beth, to the bosso nova rhythms of Clifton Noble’s setting of “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” make this a concert you won’t want to miss.
