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Tracing the threads of music from Shakespeare's time and his plays, in their performance of ''Ballads and Brawls for the Bard'' the Folger Consort wove a rich tapestry of songs heard in early performances of ''As You Like It'' and ''The Tempest'', as well as madcap masque dances, melancholy ballads, fiddle tunes, and other popular forms that were the musical warp and woof of Shakespeare's theatrical world. | Tracing the threads of music from Shakespeare's time and his plays, in their performance of ''Ballads and Brawls for the Bard'' the [[Folger Consort]] wove a rich tapestry of songs heard in early performances of [[As You Like It|''As You Like It'']] and [[The Tempest|''The Tempest'']], as well as madcap masque dances, melancholy ballads, fiddle tunes, and other popular forms that were the musical warp and woof of Shakespeare's theatrical world. The Folger Consort performed ''Ballads and Brawls for the Bard'' from March 9 to March 11, 2007 in the Folger's [[Elizabethan Theatre]]. | ||
The Folger Consort performed ''Ballads and Brawls for the Bard'' from March 9 to March 11, 2007 in the Elizabethan Theatre. | |||
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*Jim Stimson: bandora, cittern | *Jim Stimson: bandora, cittern | ||
===The Newberry Consort === | |||
*David Douglass: violin | *David Douglass: violin | ||
*Ellen Hargis: soprano | *Ellen Hargis: soprano | ||
*Mary Springfels: viol | *Mary Springfels: viol | ||
Revision as of 10:32, 13 June 2014
Tracing the threads of music from Shakespeare's time and his plays, in their performance of Ballads and Brawls for the Bard the Folger Consort wove a rich tapestry of songs heard in early performances of As You Like It and The Tempest, as well as madcap masque dances, melancholy ballads, fiddle tunes, and other popular forms that were the musical warp and woof of Shakespeare's theatrical world. The Folger Consort performed Ballads and Brawls for the Bard from March 9 to March 11, 2007 in the Folger's Elizabethan Theatre.
Artists
Folger Consort
Artistic Directors
- Robert Eisenstein: recorder, violin, viol
- Christopher Kendall: lute
Guest artists
- Mark Rimple: countertone, lute
- Jim Stimson: bandora, cittern
The Newberry Consort
- David Douglass: violin
- Ellen Hargis: soprano
- Mary Springfels: viol