Shakespeare: If Music Be...
December 9-10, 2010
harbourfront centre theatre, toronto
Scenes from Shakespeare were paired with music and dance inspired by those scenes in an evening of music, dance and ideas inspired by the Bard. The program included music by Erich Korngold, Sergei Prokofiev, John Cage, and Rufus Wainwright; choreography by Peggy Baker and James Kudelka; scenes from Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and Romeo & Juliet, and readings from Harold Pinter, Boris Pasternak, Virginia Woolf and others.
Repertoire/Credits/Media
Sonnet #10, Rufus Wainwright
arr. by Kevin Fox
Kevin Fox cello/singer, Andrew Burashko piano
Readings on Shakespeare from Boris Pasternak, Voltaire, Henry Miller, Charles Darwin, Lord Byron & Vladimir Nabokov.
Tim Campbell, Lucy Peacock, Marc Bendavid, Cara Ricketts actors
Desdemona's Song, Erich Korngold
Lucy Peacock singer, Andrew Burashko piano
Sonnet #20, Rufus Wainwright
arr. by Kevin Fox
Kevin Fox singer/cello
Romeo and Juliet Prologue, William Shakespeare
Tim Campbell & Lucy Peacock, actors
March of the Montagues and Capulets, Sergei Prokofiev
Andrew Burashko, piano
Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene V,
Marc Bendavid & Cara Ricketts, actors
🎥 Romeo and Juliet Before Parting, Sergei Prokofiev
Choreography by James Kudelka
Tanya Howard dancer, Patrick Lavoie dancer,
Andrew Burashko piano
INTERMISSION
🎥 Four Scenes from “Much Ado About Nothing” interspersed with Four Pieces from Erich Korngold’s Much Ado About Nothing Suite, William Shakespeare & Erich Korngold
i. Act I, Scene I
ii. The Maiden in the Bridal Chamber
iii. Act IV, Scene I
iv. Dogberry and Verges March
v. Act V, Scene II
vi. Garden Scene
vii. Act V, Scene IV
iix. Masquerade
Tim Campbell actor, Lucy Peacock actor, Erika Raum violin, Andrew Burashko piano
🎥 Never Doubt I Love, Ted Dykstra and Melanie Doane
Lucy Peacock singer, Ted Dykstra piano
Ophelia’s Mad Scene (Hamlet Act IV, Scene V), William Shakespeare
🎥 Ophelia/Why the Brook Wept, John Cage/Peggy Baker
Cara Ricketts actor, Peggy Baker dancer, Andrew Burashko piano
David Ferry, Director
Glen Davidson, Lighting designer
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