{"id":7955,"date":"2016-12-12T09:45:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T09:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=7955"},"modified":"2016-12-12T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T11:27:00","slug":"the-day-is-ours-chorus-and-orchestra-celebrate-shakespeares-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2016\/12\/12\/the-day-is-ours-chorus-and-orchestra-celebrate-shakespeares-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"The day is ours: Chorus and Orchestra celebrate Shakespeare’s anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to all those involved in Saturday’s\u00a0Sounding Shakespeare<\/em> concert, which brought together the University Chorus and Symphony Orchestra together in resounding form in a musical pot pourri<\/em> celebrating the Bard’s 400th anniversary.<\/p>\n

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Led by second-year Law student, Lydia Cheng, conducted by Susan Wanless, the orchestra opened with two pieces by Mendelssohn, before joining the Chorus in Rutter’s\u00a0When Icicles Hang<\/em>, complete with wintry textures and fifteenth-century verse. After the interval, the orchestra showed themselves in robust form in Bernstein’s\u00a0Overture to ‘West Side Story’<\/em> complete with lusty cries of ‘Mambo!’ emphatically delivered by the players.<\/p>\n

\"simon_paisley_day\"The final piece, Walton’s\u00a0Suite from Henry V<\/em> included seasoned Shakespearian actor Simon Paisley Day, who held the audience’s rapt attention in various speeches from the Bard’s play, concluding with a rousing Agincourt carol<\/em> with the Chorus.<\/p>\n

Both Orchestra and Chorus return in March with Puccini’s Messa di Gloria<\/em> and Tchaikovsky’s yearning Sixth Symphony, performed in Canterbury Cathedral on Saturday 25 March<\/strong>.<\/p>\n