hello everyone !
I hope you guys are enjoying your June break (:
Anyway Jasmine ( the drama pres) was kind enough to send me an email about a concert that she thought we might be interested in.
"If music be the food of love, play on.." Twelfth Night
Did you know that music in Elizabethan/Jacobean times were so highly recommended that one was not considered to be a gentleman unless he was able to sing, play an instrument and dance?
From the poor to the rich, music then had a role in all parts of the day. In fact, Queen Elizabeth I played the lute and the virginal, a small form of a harpsichord thought named after 'the Virgin Queen'. Although "not playing as performances but only to shun melancholy", she encouraged composers and musicians, and employed over seventy musicians and singers in her court.
Elizabethan music was distinguished for its steady rhythm and polyphony with the main theme played in more complex ways. Like modern day orchestra, its instruments were used in combinations that produced much more expressive music that stoke emotions. These instruments can be grouped into string, wind, percussion and the keyboard. The string instruments included the lute, the earliest form of the guitar; the cittern, a smaller form of the lute; the viol, similar to the violin that came in treble, tenor, bass and double bass. The wind instruments see the recorders, flutes, big clarions, trumpets, and sackbuts (trombone). Percussion was various forms of drums and bells while the keyboard was virginal, harpsichord, spinet and organ.
The use of music on stage to convey distance, mood and atmosphere brought theatre then to new heights. Theatre music was at its peak with the rise of William Shakespeare when we considered that the Bard had more than 500 references to music in his plays and poems. Music from some of the Bard's some plays survived till now. These include the music that will be played in awaking.
Experience England's early music in awaking, an unprecedented interdisciplinary performance, 13 to 14 June 2008 at Victoria Theatre.
Led by Philip Pickett, the Musicians of the Globe whose performances on England's early music carry hallmarks of refinement, purity and exquisiteness will be united artistically by Singapore's theatre doyen Ong Keng Seng with the musicians of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra and the Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre.
Savour the magic of the music in awaking that has crossed time and space, east and west, celebrating the meaning of Love.
Visit www.newlondonconsort.com to know more on Philip Pickett and the Musicians of the Globe; and www.theatreworks.org.sg to listen to an excerpt of awaking, composed by Qu Xiao Song.
awaking is on 13 – 14 June 2008, 8pm
Victoria Theatre
$25, $35, $45, $55
70 mins (no intermission)
Tickets on sale NOW at all SISTIC outlets.
Call SISTIC at 6348-5555 or visit www.sistic.com.sg
Alternatively, call or email us* now for tickets at 67377213 and tworks@singnet.com.sg. We are happy to assist our Friends of Theatreworks book tickets for awaking.
* SISTIC ticketing charges will apply.
Did you know that music in Elizabethan/Jacobean times were so highly recommended that one was not considered to be a gentleman unless he was able to sing, play an instrument and dance?
From the poor to the rich, music then had a role in all parts of the day. In fact, Queen Elizabeth I played the lute and the virginal, a small form of a harpsichord thought named after 'the Virgin Queen'. Although "not playing as performances but only to shun melancholy", she encouraged composers and musicians, and employed over seventy musicians and singers in her court.
Elizabethan music was distinguished for its steady rhythm and polyphony with the main theme played in more complex ways. Like modern day orchestra, its instruments were used in combinations that produced much more expressive music that stoke emotions. These instruments can be grouped into string, wind, percussion and the keyboard. The string instruments included the lute, the earliest form of the guitar; the cittern, a smaller form of the lute; the viol, similar to the violin that came in treble, tenor, bass and double bass. The wind instruments see the recorders, flutes, big clarions, trumpets, and sackbuts (trombone). Percussion was various forms of drums and bells while the keyboard was virginal, harpsichord, spinet and organ.
The use of music on stage to convey distance, mood and atmosphere brought theatre then to new heights. Theatre music was at its peak with the rise of William Shakespeare when we considered that the Bard had more than 500 references to music in his plays and poems. Music from some of the Bard's some plays survived till now. These include the music that will be played in awaking.
Experience England's early music in awaking, an unprecedented interdisciplinary performance, 13 to 14 June 2008 at Victoria Theatre.
Led by Philip Pickett, the Musicians of the Globe whose performances on England's early music carry hallmarks of refinement, purity and exquisiteness will be united artistically by Singapore's theatre doyen Ong Keng Seng with the musicians of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra and the Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre.
Savour the magic of the music in awaking that has crossed time and space, east and west, celebrating the meaning of Love.
Visit www.newlondonconsort.com to know more on Philip Pickett and the Musicians of the Globe; and www.theatreworks.org.sg to listen to an excerpt of awaking, composed by Qu Xiao Song.
awaking is on 13 – 14 June 2008, 8pm
Victoria Theatre
$25, $35, $45, $55
70 mins (no intermission)
Tickets on sale NOW at all SISTIC outlets.
Call SISTIC at 6348-5555 or visit www.sistic.com.sg
Alternatively, call or email us* now for tickets at 67377213 and tworks@singnet.com.sg. We are happy to assist our Friends of Theatreworks book tickets for awaking.
* SISTIC ticketing charges will apply.
If anyone is free and interested, you might want to go for this. Sounds good (:
Have a happy holiday , and mug hard (:
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