Word: madrigale
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"This is absurd stuff they are saying, and--" Ruddigore is by Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir William Schwenk Gilbert. It's about a witch's curse which dooms the hero to commit a crime a day, rather like some political figures, but being more ingenious than they, he finds a...
The dance routines and the music are quite a bit of work, especially considering that, at least as far as the kick line goes, the amount of talent involved is pitifully meager. Voight Kempson, the director, does a lot to compensate for this absence, by a lavish and effective use...
The current production by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, although gimmick-ridden, is a fine one, with choreography that seems to belong in a far more lavish production, and excellent performances by the principals. The crew of the famous ship whirls and leaps in a comic dance, with several...
Palestrina: The Song of Songs (Prague Madrigal Choir; Miroslav Venhoda conductor; Vanguard/ Bach Guild, $2.98). The great Renaissance polyphonist, best known for soaring church works like the Pope Marcellus Mass, here took his text, somewhat uncharacteristically, from Solomon's highly sensuous biblical verses: "A bundle of myrrh is my...
The play's only song, "Take, o take those lips away" (which also turns up in Beaumont and Fletcher's play Rollo, with music by John Wilson), is assigned by Shakespeare to a young boy, who serenades Mariana in the garden of her "moated grange." Instead of a solo ayre...