Desperate Housewives of Shakespeare’s London:
A Lute Song Cabaret
 

  
Sir Godfrey Kneller, Mrs. Arabella Hunt

Directed by Grant Herreid
Music Direction, Charles Weaver

Performance at St. Luke's Theater, 308 West 46th Street
Tuesday, May 18 at 8:00 PM
Admission $15, $10 seniors, students, em org. memebers 

Click here for an mp3 recording of our May 11, 2010 Performance

Click here for an mp3 recording of our April 7, 2010 Midtown Concerts performance

 

The great flowering of the English lute song provides us with nearly thirty printed books of songs by about twenty different composers, with many more found in manuscript sources. Whether for solo voice or multiple voices in dialogue or ensemble, many of these songs were likely performed in a dramatic context, and some positively cry out for dramatic treatment.  The Lute Song Cabaret, staged in modern dress and employing historical rhetorical gesture, presents works by Dowland, Campion, Jones, Ferrabosco and others in touching and delightful vignettes of life and love in the age of Shakespeare, as performers deliver their poignant tales in arrangements for combinations of lutes as well as mixed consorts.

 

The workshop meets on Tuesday evenings from 7:00 to 10:00 PM
in the 2nd floor lounge at St. Luke's Lutheran Church,
308 West 46th (between 8th and 9th Avenues). 
Use the Church Office entrance. 

• We will be pitched at 440, in 1/6 comma meantone.  Please adjust accordingly.

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