Ensemble Chaconne performs at Shakespeare Association of America National Meeting, April 6, Boston

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PRLog (Press Release) - Jan 30, 2012 -
The Shakespeare Association of America, in its Annual Meeting April 6 in Boston, will feature Ensemble Chaconne (Peter H. Bloom, Renaissance flute; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, Renaissance lute) and mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal performing Measure for Measure: The Music of Shakespeare’s Plays.   Hailed by The Portland Press Herald as “the perfect Elizabethan evening,” the concert offers a rare and compelling view of the music Shakespeare’s audiences would have heard, including anonymous tunes of the period and music by the leading composers of his day (Thomas Morley, Robert Johnson, and others).  Ms. Dellal displays versatility and dramatic flair in love songs, comic antics, madness and tragedy.  Selections are tied directly to the plays and include music from As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and other plays.

The concert will be Friday, April 6, 2012 at 4:15 pm, Shakespeare Association of America National Meeting, Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116. Limited Seating. For information, call             1-888-887-7169      .

Among other selections, the ensemble will perform “The Willow Song” sung by Desdemona before her murder in Othello; “It Was a Lover and His Lasse” (As You Like It); “O Mistress Mine” (Twelfth Night); “Hark, Hark! The Lark” (Cymbeline); “Take O Take Those Lips Away” (Measure for Measure); “Full Fathom Five” (The Tempest), “Go from My Window” from Ophelia’s mad scene in Hamlet; and “Greensleeves,” the famous ballad tune (quoted in The Merry Wives of Windsor), an allusion to women of ill repute, recognized by their green sleeves.

Measure for Measure: The Music of Shakespeare’s Plays was presented in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Residency at Davidson College, and was chosen as featured event at the 30th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum and the National Meeting of the American Musicological Society.  The group’s CD of the same name is available on the Americas Musicworks label.

Praised for “vitality and character…style and verve” (MusicWeb International), and now celebrating its 26th season, ENSEMBLE CHACONNE has garnered consistent critical acclaim for its vivid concerts of Renaissance music on period instruments.  The group’s 2011-2012 season includes concerts in England, Ontario, and the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States.  World renowned institutions including the National Gallery of Canada, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Peabody Essex Museum have presented the group, and the ensemble has performed widely in concert halls, theatres, museums, historical sites, colleges and universities, and other venues.  In 2009, the group was named to Early Music America’s North American touring roster, one of only 33 ensembles in North America to receive the honor.

In May 2012, Ensemble Chaconne will tour England with performances at The National Gallery in London, Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury, St. Mary-le-Tower Church in Ipswich, and Riverhouse Arts Centre in Walton-on-Thames.

GUEST ARTIST PAMELA DELLAL has toured the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan and has recorded for Arabesque Records, Artona, BMG, Dorian, Meridian, and KOCH International.  Critics have called her singing “outstanding” (The New York Times) and “lushly fluid” (The Washington Post).

ENSEMBLE CHACONNE is managed exclusively by AMERICAS MUSICWORKS
Rebecca DeLamotte, Managing Director
29 Newbury Street
Somerville, MA 02144 USA
Telephone:  1-617-776-8778      Email:  delamotte-amw@comcast.net

To purchase Ensemble Chaconne’s CD, Measure for Measure: The  Music of Shakespeare’s plays, visit these links:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ensemblechaconne     http://www.americasmusicworks.com/buycds.html

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