If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
- Duke Orsino, “Twelfth Night,” Act I, scene 1
Are you played out on the Bard yet? April 23rd marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, and area musicians prepare to strut and fret their hour upon the stage.
Westminster Opera Theatre will present two performances of Verdi’s “Falstaff,” tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Robert L. Annis Playhouse on the campus of Westminster Choir College in Princeton. Allegedly the run is sold out, but there could be turn-ins.
On Sunday at 3 p.m., Westminster Conservatory of Music faculty singers Danielle Sinclair, Tracy Chebra, Timothy Urban and Krishna Raman will share a recital of Shakespeare in song as part of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Series. The free concert will take place in Gill Chapel on the campus of Rider University in Lawrenceville.
Next Thursday at 12:15, Mary Greenberg will present a program of Bard-inspired music for the keyboard, interlaced with readings from the Shakespearean sources, as part of Westminster Conservatory’s noontime concert series. The free recital will be given in the Niles Chapel of Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton.
Next weekend, on Saturday, the actual anniversary of the Bard’s death (also traditionally held to be the anniversary of his birth, 52 years earlier), The Princeton Singers will present “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” at 5:30 and 8 p.m. The concerts will be held at Princeton University Art Museum.
Finally, on Tuesday, April 26 at 7 p.m., The Merrie Companions – Rebecca Mariman, soprano, John Burkhalter, Renaissance recorders, and John Orluk Lacombe, lute – will present “Hamlet’s Castle, or Mr. Shakespeare’s Musicke.” The free concert will take place in the Community Room of Princeton Public Library.
Words, words, words. You can read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times.
http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/04/classical_music_westminster_op_1.html
