This is quite logical, because the writer describes his own lover. In this way, you get to know his personal feelings from his own perspective.
It is written in the third person. The writer discusses the characteristics of Sylvia. The tone set in the poem, which is admiring and weighing, is created to let the reader wonder about all the characteristics of Sylvia.
Shakespeare has a positive view on Sylvia, but still he has a doubtful edge. He emphasizes all her imperfections. Although, he ends his poem with a comment showing he loves her despite everything.
These are paired with music from the likes of Schubert and Schumann to create a dynamic and colorful musical experience worthy of the Bard himself. Each one extracts a new layer of meaning from the tender, heartsick lyrics, the first employing mezzo-soprano and harp, the second featuring a downright bluesy violin and sung in German as composed by Adolphus Hailstork, and a third with music by Gerald Finzi. After a song cycle by Schumann and several other pieces from other composers, the album concludes with three Shakespeare settings by Summer.
Much like Shakespeare, Summer keeps his audience engaged by constantly exploding their expectations. From one track to the next, the listener can never be quite sure what they are going to hear, and this keeps the ear at rapt attention.
Surely, this album offers something for every listener. This release features the award-winning Ulysses Quartet, in residence at the Juilliard School of Music. Who Is Silvia? Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. An Silvia, Op. Joseph Summer began playing French horn at the age of 7. Banerdt holds the position of Assistant Concertmaster with the Cape Symphony. She was one of two Violin Fellowships for the seasons with the flagship music education organization Community MusicWorks in Providence RI, where she taught individual lessons and group classes for disadvantaged youth and performed regularly with the Fellowship Quartet and Community MusicWorks Players.
Her Bachelor of Music magna cum laude is from The Boston Conservatory, where she studied with Irina Muresanu as a full-scholarship student. In June , as part of the year celebrations on PEI, professional dancers from Ballet Jazz de Montreal performed a modern dance to her first compositional commission for solo violin, with Bouey playing it on the violin.
Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly with Longwood Opera. Petersburg, EnsembleNewSrq, and many more. She has won the St. In June he gave a solo recital with pianist Euntaek Kim for the St. He currently plays a 19th-century Italian viola and modern bow, generously on loan from the Maestro Foundation.
Julia Soojin Cavallaro, mezzo-soprano, enjoys a richly varied career in opera, oratorio, recital, and chamber music. Cavallaro is an active chamber musician and recitalist, and is particularly passionate about early music, art song, and contemporary repertoire.
In addition to her career as a vocalist, Cavallaro composes for voice, piano, and chamber ensemble, having studied with John McDonald at Tufts University. Her music has been premiered in the United States and Canada. Andrea Chenoweth, soprano, is a two-time regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions.
She has appeared with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States, including regular appearances with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Opera, and Dayton Opera. Chenoweth concertizes frequently and is is a frequent soloist with The Shakespeare Concerts.
Chenoweth is an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Dayton, where she teaches voice, aural skills, opera, and a course of her own design: Music and Faith on Stage. Petersburg String Quartets, and soprano Dawn Upshaw. Adolphus Hailstork received his doctorate in composition from Michigan State University, where he was a student of H. Owen Reed. Hailstork has written in a variety of genres, producing works for chorus, solo voice, piano, organ, various chamber ensembles, band, and orchestra.
His early compositions include Celebration, recorded by the Detroit Symphony in ; and two works for band Out of the Depths , , and American Guernica , , both of which won national competitions. Louis and the Kansas City Lyric Opera. Hailstork's second and third symphonies were recently recorded by the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, under David Lockington, on a Naxos label disc released in January Rise for Freedom , an opera about the Underground Railroad, was premiered in the fall of by the Cincinnati Opera Company.
Other premieres in spring of included Serenade for chorus and orchestra, commissioned by Michigan State University, and Set Me on a Rock , also for chorus and orchestra, commissioned by the Houston Choral Society.
Brett Hodgdon is a pianist, vocal coach, and conductor living in Boston MA. Hodgdon was appointed Chorus Master for the company in In addition to his work at BLO, Hodgdon has been a regular rehearsal pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra since , having rehearsed and coached programs for BSO music director Andris Nelsons as well as many guest conductors. He received a D. Brett Hodgdon appears by permission of Boston Lyric Opera.
Harpist Franziska Huhn is a vibrant musical force as a soloist, chamber musician, pedagogue and orchestral performer. Huhn established herself as an artist of distinction at a very young age, earning first prize in the prestigious Jugend Musiziert Competition in Germany at the age of She was then invited to study on a full scholarship with Lucile Lawrence at Boston University and then continued her harp studies with Ann Hobson Pilot at New England Conservatory, where she became the first ever harpist to be awarded the Artist Diploma by the Conservatory in Kim earned her D.
She also received both M. She has been on the Voice faculty at the University of Dayton since Since her orchestra debut at age 9 with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Kim has appeared as a soloist with the Yewon Orchestra and won numerous prizes in Korea.
In , Kim performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington. C as the part of the Millennium Stage Concert series. Najmi has joined the touring concert Video Games Live as a guest soloist several times, including performances with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Also active as a composer, Najmi recently premiered his first original opera, En la ardiente oscuridad. Omar Najmi appears by permission of Boston Lyric Opera. Native Bostonian Andy Papas leaves operatic and theatrical audiences in stitches from coast to coast.
He returned to the Boston Equity theater scene as Mr. Bumble in Oliver! In the Boston area he has collaborated regularly in concert and recording with composers Joseph Summer and Mary Bichner. Please visit www.
Founded in the summer of , the group won first prize in the Schoenfeld International String Competition and the grand prize and gold medal in the senior string division of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
The quartet garnered a career development grant in the Banff International String Quartet Competition and were winners of the Vietnam International Music Competition this past August.
As a special project, the group will record the quartets of composer Joseph Summer at Mechanics Hall in Worcester MA over the next several years. The musicians perform on instruments and bows graciously on loan from the Canada Council of the Arts Instrument Bank and the Maestro Foundation.
He has already won awards in many major competitions in the Czech Republic and abroad, including: the F. He began studying the violin at the same time as the piano. Remember Me? What's New? Forum Reading Who Said That? Shakespeare in Love Monologue Question. Results 1 to 6 of 6. Thread: Shakespeare in Love Monologue Question. Shakespeare in Love Monologue Question I know this isn't exactly literature based, but rewatching Shakespeare in Love, I really liked this one monologue or perhaps poem?
I managed to find a bit of the text of the monologue online, but I was wondering if anyone knew where it came from and if this is the complete monologue. Unless it be to think that she is by And feed upon the shadow of perfection.
Modern Text. Exit DUKE. To die is to be banished from myself, And Sylvia is myself. Banished from her Is self from self—a deadly banishment! What joy is joy, if Sylvia be not by?
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