Shakespeare In Song Pre-Concert Lecture

Joseph Summer, artistic director of The Shakespeare Concerts will give a pre-concert guest lecture at 7:30 PM on May 17, 2008 prior to the Spectrum Singers Shakespeare In Song program at Emmanuel Church in Boston. For information and tickets, go to spectrumsingers.org.

Shakespeare Concerts Announces 2008 Concert at Jordan Hall

The Shakespeare Concerts makes its third annual appearance at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall at 8 PM on Friday, March 27th, 2009.

The program will consist of works set to Shakespeare by Igor Stravinsky, David Amram, and our series' founder Joseph Summer, and other composers to be announced. The Stravinsky Three Shakespeare Songs are settings of Sonnet VIII (Music to Hear), Full Fathom Five (from The Tempest) and When Daisies Pied (from Love's Labour's Lost.) They will be sung by series' perennial, mezzo soprano Kellie Van Horn. Van Horn will join tenor Alan Schneider, The Shakespeare Concerts' tenor since the series debut concert in 2003, in Summer's setting of Full Fathom Five, accompanied by the sensational Czech pianist, Miroslav Sekera whose debut American performance was also with The Shakespeare Concerts in 2003. Baritone Paul Soper and Sekera will perform With Mirth in Funeral, the opening scene from Summer's Hamlet opera. Soprano Patrice Tiedemann, whose "agonized performance of heart-broken Cleopatra," in Samuel Barber's aria Give Me Some Music, at last March's Jordan Hall concert, will also perform in Summer's version of Sonnet VIII. Members of the QX string quartet and solo winds will be directed by The Shakespeare Concerts new music director, world renowned conductor, organist, and harpsichordist, Ian Watson.

Advance tickets may be reserved by e-mailing shakespeareconcerts.com
Seats are general admission, open seating, and cost $25.00