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Midsummer Shakespeare
... Waverley Singers Summer Concert
Part of the Waverley Singers 2022-23 Season
Add to my Calendar 25-06-2023 17:00 25-06-2023 19:00 36 Midsummer Shakespeare Come and enjoy the magic of Shakespeare, set to a wonderful range of music! Ranging from the 16th to the 21st centuries, from unaccompanied settings of his sonnets to the fireworks of choruses from ‘West Side Story’, this concert shows just how powerful has been the Bard’s influence on composers throughout the years. St Mary the Virgin Church, Frensham DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Mary the Virgin Church
The Street
Frensham
Surrey
GU10 3EA
England
Programme
George Shearing – Live with me and be my Love
George Shearing – Who is Silvia
George Shearing – Spring
George Shearing – When Daffodils begin to Peer
Sarah Quartel – I know a bank
Will Todd – It was a lover and his lass
Owain Park – Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
Thomas Morley – It was a lover and his lass (arr. Bridge)
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Three Shakespeare songs
~ Interval ~
Ivor Gurney – 5 Elizabethan Songs (arr. Farrington)
Robert Johnson – Where the bee sucks (The Tempest: Act V Scene 1)
George Gershwin – Piano medley
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story: Choral Selection (arr. by William Stickles)
William Walton – Touch her soft lips and part
Alan Bullard – When that I was and a little tiny boy
Performers
Richard Pearce – Conductor
Jakob Rothoff – piano
Waverley Singers
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Programme Note
Come and enjoy the magic of Shakespeare, set to a wonderful range of music! Ranging from the 16th to the 21st centuries, from unaccompanied settings of his sonnets to the fireworks of choruses from ‘West Side Story’, this concert shows just how powerful has been the Bard’s influence on composers throughout the years.
