Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most stirring pieces of the evening. It began with a processional, the dancers walking slowly in white suits, dresses and pants, with white fans and huge parasols, against a backdrop of blue light. It was a scene right out of one of Winslow Homer's Caribbean watercolors. The song "Wade in the Water" was danced by three people, who crossed through the "water": two dark and light turquoise blue strips of material, rippling like waves across the stage. In this symbolic baptism, a couple was led by a third woman who brought them back and forth through the waves...
...song was picked by the show's producers, according to J. Christopher Paul '98, the group's music director...
Paul said he had to rearrange the song to fit it into the two-and-a-half minute time slot the group is allotted...
Daniel A. Simon '99 will sing the solo of the song and also take part in a brief interview about Arts First...
...songs, drawn from three of Shakespeare's plays, were set to musical arrangements composed by Shakespeare's contemporaries. The audience was thus given a chance to hear them as they might have been originally performed--something rarely done in staging of the plays themselves. Marianne Staniunas '00, Kirk G. Hanson '99 and director Wood (in various combinations) gave skillful performances of the three selections: Desdemona's "Willow Song" from Othello, Feste's "O Mistress Mine" from Twelfth Night ("Youth's a stuff will not endure") and "It Was A Lover And His Lass" (a.k.a. the "hey-nonny-no" song) from...