The Seven Ages of Man - Songs and Scenes from Shakespeare

The Temple Church

£20

IT IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE TO BUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT ON THE WEBSITE BUT TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE TO BUY ON THE DOOR FROM 5.00PM

This concert is promoted by the Temple Church

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The Seven Ages of Man: Songs and Scenes from Shakespeare
The Temple Singers, Director: Roger Sayer

At the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare, a celebration in aid of The Temple Church Boys’ Choir tour to Singapore and Australia, July 2016.

We follow the seven ages of man described by Jaques in one of Shakespeare’s most famous speeches: from the infant – through the school-child, lover, soldier, justice, and lean and slipper’d pantaloon – to ‘the last scene of all’. We match the loveliest settings of the plays’ songs with some of the most dramatic scenes: Portia on mercy, the death of Cordelia, Prospero’s farewell – and, most fitting of all, the confrontation in the Temple Garden that launches the Wars of the Roses. Centrepiece of the performance will be Vaughan Williams’ extended Serenade to Music from The Merchant of Venice, ‘How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank’: written for sixteen soloists, the Serenade will have a ravishingly beautiful performance from the sixteen soloists who regularly come together at the Temple Church to form The Temple Singers.

The music will include:
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
Vaughan Williams Over hill, over dale, Full fathom five and The cloud-capped towers
Gurney Orpheus with his lute
Morley O mistress mine
Walford Davies You spotted snakes
Walton Music for Henry V and Richard III

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A retiring collection will also be held for those who would like to make an additional contribution to the boy-choristers’ tour to the Far East. This evening is the contribution of the Church’s adult musicians to the children’s next outstanding endeavour!