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A podcast from the Shakespeare and Music Study Group, hosted by Michael Graham and Michelle Assay. Interviews with academics, composers, performers, directors and more, about the wonderful world of Shakespeare and music. Website: shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com; Twitter: @shakesmus
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If you’d like to find out more about the Shakespeare and Music Group, please visit shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com and @shakesmus on Twitter. Episode 9 In this episode Michelle Assay interviews composer, violist and conductor Brett Dean on his 2017 opera Hamlet, discussing his approach to Shakespeare's original play, the composition process, coll…
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If you’d like to find out more about the Shakespeare and Music Group, please visit shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com and @shakesmus on Twitter. Episode 8 In this episode, Michael Graham interviews musical theatre expert Hannah Marie Robbins on the writing, performance history and gender politics of Kiss Me, Kate (1948), a musical adaptation of The …
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7. Claire Van Kampen: Composing Theatre Music, Shakespeare's Globe and Beyond
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Episode 7 Michelle Assay interviews composer, director, playwright, and all-round Renaissance person, Claire Van Kampen, on her richly varied career working for stage and screen. 00:02:00 Claire's introduction to early music, composing for historic instruments 00:08:00 The RSC and touring with Phoebus Cart 00:13:42 Working at the Globe and composin…
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6. Rozanna Madylus: Three Sisters and a Fool - Family, Grief, and Wisdom in The Shackled King
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If you’d like to find out more about the Shakespeare and Music Group, please visit shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com and @shakesmus on Twitter. Episode 6 Michelle Assay talks to British-Ukranian mezzo-soprano Rozanna Madylus about her multi-role performance in John Casken's King Lear adaptation, The Shackled King. The opera receives its world premi…
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5. John Andrews: Arthur Sullivan's Incidental Music
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If you’d like to find out more about the Shakespeare and Music Group, please visit shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com and @shakesmus on Twitter. Audio extracts of Arthur Sullivan's music for The Tempest (1860-62) and Macbeth (1888) provided by kind permission of John Andrews and Dutton Epoch. 1: Macbeth, Overture 2: The Tempest, 'Come unto these yel…
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If you’d like to find out more about the Shakespeare and Music Group, please visit shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com and @shakesmus on Twitter. Audio clips of Northern Opera Group's performance of Charles Villiers Stanford's 'Much Ado About Nothing' (2019) provided by kind permission of David Ward and Northern Opera Group. Episode 4 Michelle Assay …
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3. Jennifer Waghorn: Composers for The King's Men
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If you’d like to find out more about the Shakespeare and Music Group, please visit shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com and @shakesmus on Twitter. Episode 3 Michael Graham talks to Jennifer Waghorn about music in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, the dynamics of composer-playwright collaboration in early modern theatre, and parallels be…
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2. John Casken and John Tomlinson: The Shackled King
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If you’d like to find out more about the Shakespeare and Music Group, please visit shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com and @shakesmus on Twitter. Episode 2 In this episode of 'Sounds and Sweet Airs', Michelle Assay talks with composer John Casken and singer Sir John Tomlinson about their new drama The Shackled King, a condensed version of Shakespeare…
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1. Michelle Assay: Soviet and Post-Soviet Music
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If you’d like to find out more about the Shakespeare and Music Group, please visit shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com and @shakesmus on Twitter. Episode 1 In the first episode of 'Sounds and Sweet Airs', Michael Graham talks to the Chair of the Shakespeare and Music Study Group, Michelle Assay, about the formation of the group, its current activitie…
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