Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices...
--The Tempest, William Shakespeare
No other playwright can lay claim to having inspired as many composers as can William Shakespeare. Ballets, operas, incidental music, tone poems...by composers too numerous to mention. Well, ok, we could mention just a few: Purcell, Mendelssohn, Korngold, Prokofiev, and Carlson. Carlson--that would be Knoxville composer James Carlson, who has organized Sounds & Sweet Airs: Shakespeare & Music, an evening of music, theatre, and dance inspired by the Bard. Some of the local artists performing will be:
The Wild Thyme Players; Momentum Dance Lab; Lorraine DiSimone, mezzo-soprano; Patrick Harvey, piano; Hillary Herndon, viola; Rebekkah Hilgraves, soprano; Mark Hook, piano; Greg Horne, guitar/vocals; Julia Lawson, soprano; Lucie Novoveska, violin; Maria Rist, soprano; Thomas Tallent, lute; Daniel Stipe, organ; and Mary Weaver, alto.
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.
Wake from a long sleep just long enough to hie thee down to the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church on Saturday, March 28th at 7:30 pm for this intriguing program.
Sounds & Sweet Airs: Shakespeare & Music
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
2931 Kingston Pike
Knoxville, TN 37919
865-523-4176
Admission: $15 regular/$10 students
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