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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.0056 Friday, 9 January 2004 [1] From: Adam Sherratt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 8 Jan 2004 12:54:52 -0000 Subj: SHK 15.0043 Latest Arden 3 Editions? [2] From: Chris Gordon <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 08 Jan 2004 12:49:27 CST Subj: Re: SHK 15.0043 Latest Arden 3 Editions? [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Adam Sherratt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 8 Jan 2004 12:54:52 -0000 Subject: Latest Arden 3 Editions? Comment: SHK 15.0043 Latest Arden 3 Editions? The Arden 3 editions of Two Gentlemen of Verona and Pericles are still not published. Both titles are currently scheduled for release in March 2004 (although the date for Pericles may well be later than that). The Oxford World's Classics edition of Pericles is due at the end of this month. I hope this information is useful to you. Regards, Adam Sherratt The Shakespeare Bookshop 39 Henley Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6QW Tel: 01789 292176 Fax: 01789 296083 Email: mailto:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: http://www.shakespeare.org.uk [2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Chris Gordon <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 08 Jan 2004 12:49:27 CST Subject: 15.0043 Latest Arden 3 Editions? Comment: Re: SHK 15.0043 Latest Arden 3 Editions? According to amazon.com, TGV is schedule for this month, and Pericles for February. Chris Gordon _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.0055 Friday, 9 January 2004 From: Joseph Summer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Thursday, 8 Jan 2004 20:44:56 EST Subject: The Shakespeare Concerts 2004 Announcing The Shakespeare Concerts 2004 For Immediate Release December 8, 2003 Contact: Lisa Summer Foundation for Modern Opera Telephone: 508-363-4460 E-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ______________________________________________________________________________ Worcester, MA The Shakespeare Concerts are a series of performances and recordings focusing on the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare, presented for the second year by Boston's Foundation for Modern Opera. Concerts in Worcester, Boston, London, and St. Thomas (the U.S. Virgin Islands) feature settings of sonnets and scenes from the Bard's plays by Brahms, Prokofief, Schubert, British composers Roger Quilter and Martin Shaw, and the contemporary American composer Joseph Summer. Czech pianist Miroslav Sekera, who portrayed the 6 year old Mozart in the film, Amadeus, and won the 2002 Brahms International Piano Competition in Vienna will perform Summer's The Dumbshow from Hamlet. Miroslav Sekera "is an awesome talent. As both a solo performer and accompanist he is absolutely amazing," wrote the critic for the Saint Thomas Source of the pianist's work last year. For this season's concerts, Sekera and The Shakespeare Concerts music director John McGinn will accompany vocalists well-known to Boston audiences, including Maria Ferrante, winner of the Mario Lanza Voice competition. Writing in the Boston Globe, music critic Richard Dyer described her "combination of delicacy and intensity" last year as Madame Butterfly as so touching that it "brought tears to my eyes." Maria Ferrante's participation in The Shakespeare Concerts does not begin with the 2004 concerts. In the summer of 2002 she recorded several of Joseph Summer's Oxford Songs in Prague including the aria Gallop Apace from Romeo and Juliet which she premiered in the United States in The Shakespeare Concerts series in 2003. She and tenor Alan Schneider recently completed the first The Shakespeare Concerts CD, "To Be Or Not To Be," with Sekera and McGinn. Tenor Alan Schneider is an oft heard voice in New England, performing with Boston Lyric, Glimmerglass, Commonwealth, and Boston University Opera companies. Last year, Alan portrayed Hamlet in three world premiere concert arias: Too Too Solid Flesh, What a Piece of Work Is Man, and, of course, To Be Or Not To Be. Writing of Schneider's performances last year, critic Roger Lakins described the young tenor as possessing a "sound reminiscent of Ian Partridge or Peter Pears in his prime, clear, bright, with impeccable diction." Besides the aforementioned The Shakespeare Concerts regulars, the series introduces to Massachusetts audiences new series performers contralto Diane Thornton in a performance of Brahms' Five Ophelia Songs; and three London based opera singers from the UK's Opera Unlimited company: Julie-Dawn Lloyd, Loretta Pennington, and Paul Vincent. A more familiar Massachusetts performer, Anna Reinersman, a New York based artist, who plays harp with the Boston Pops, will perform in the exquisite opus 17 by Brahms, Four Songs for Women's Chorus, Two horns and harp (which includes Brahms' setting of Come away, death, from Twelfth Night); as well as several other Shakespeare settings by Summer, including If By Your Art from The Tempest, with Maria Ferrante as Miranda.. "Summer is a composer who knows what he wants to say and has the vocabulary to do so," wrote Roger Lakins. "The 'To Be or Not to Be' soliloquy is one of the most profound and challenging scenes in dramatic literature, and the translation of it into music is a daunting task. It is unfortunate that this work was not repeated as an encore. It deserves more than one listening. Summer's interpretation of the Ophelia scene, 'They Bore Him Barefaced on the Bier,' was haunting and disturbing, which is to say quite successful." ?????????????????????????????? January 24th at Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts at Clark University, 92 Downing Street in Worcester; 8 PM; free admission January 25th at Rabb Hall, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston street, Boston, MA; 2 PM; free admission January 30th at the Ritz-Carlton Ballroom in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; 8 PM September and October 2004 concerts in London and environs to be announced later _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.0054 Thursday, 8 January 2004 From: Rolland Banker <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 7 Jan 2004 18:48:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: Cormorant Insomuch as RII is about Richard endlessly drawing comparisons between himself and Jesus, and proving himself not so much a king as a poet; so too Jesus proved himself not so much a king of this world "else my servants would fight" to release him, he died as a Saviour. Check out Psalm 102 in your King James especially verse 6: I am like a pelican of the wilderness. The whole Psalm reads like a rough draft of some of Richard's plaintive pleas. (Shakespeare again was revising an older play) Hence, the precious stones of line 46 in the context used of "the office of a wall." reminds me of the "precious stones" scattered throughout and making up the wall of heaven or the new Jerusalem. See Revelations 21: 11,19 that is being compared to England, that demi-paradise, in the play. The saved, according to Revelations 2:17, will also receive a "white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it." There's your signet. And see Gaunt talking about his appropriate name! So to "redeem from broking pawn" is another type of salvation which dovetails nicely with the "precious stone" stuff. The cormorant is an unclean fowl under the Levitical law. The Saviour in the new testament is always likened to unclean animals: an eagle, a mother hen, a snake, a lion, etc.; eating and drinking and lascivious too! As for the Ashmole Collection I haven't a clue. _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.0053 Thursday, 8 January 2004 From: Rolland Banker <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 7 Jan 2004 17:11:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: Launce and Crab Now wouldn't we all like to see the Japanese AIBO Crab!! In a updated version of the play!! There could be a video screen on/above the stage projecting the images that AIBO/Crab the robot/video camera dog is looking at during his communication/acting scenes. Overload with the ocular while luxuriating in auricular. Sweet Heaven!! But I don't have an idea about Launce's doo-doo solilique yet. Oh! Wait! Oh my! it would seem to work out just fine, if one thinks about it. _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.0052 Thursday, 8 January 2004 From: Tom Pendleton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Wednesday, 7 Jan 2004 18:02:20 -0500 Subject: 15.0026 Psychology of Gertrude Comment: RE: SHK 15.0026 Psychology of Gertrude At the end of the day I think I agree with David Cohen that the son's idealization of his father is not very frequent in Shakespeare, but Hamlet, Richard III, and to a lesser degree Prince Hal, Guiderius and Arviragus (for Belarius), the Bastard (for Richard the Lion-Hearted)--these last three noted by Cohen--Orlando, Titus's rapidly diminishing roster of sons, and even Ferdinand might well suggest that at least high regard for one's father is something less than truly rare. The difference of opinion is negotiable. Tom Pendleton _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.