Reviews

By kind invitation of the Loughborough Endowed Schools

Songs and Sonnets:

Choral settings of Shakespeare

with Nick Scott-Burt, jazz pianist

Loughborough Endowed Schools Music School

(click for map)

7.30pm

(NB not the time as printed on the tickets!)

Sunday 20th June 2010

Shakespeare has been inspirational to composers of all nations from his own day to this. Our programme features settings of a lighter nature, including John Rutter's Birthday Madrigals and the great, blind jazz pianist, George Shearing's Songs and Sonnets as well as Vaughan Williams' incomparable settings of Full Fathom Five, The Cloud-Capp'd Towers and Over Hill, Over Dale, and two contemporary settings by Finnish composer, Jaakko Mantyjarvi, Come Away Death and Double, double Toil and Trouble. We are delighted to be joined by Rugby-based jazz pianist Nick Scott-Burt, in his first appearance with Chorale.

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