June 24
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
EVENING AT POPS 1999 with Brush Up Your Shakespeare. Hot on the heels of the Bard's sweep of the Oscars, the season opener features Shakespeare & Company, one of the largest Shakespeare festivals in North America. Under the artistic direction of Tina Packer, the theater troupe joins forces with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra for an enchanting evening of music and drama, hosted by renowned Shakepeare interpreter, Claire Bloom. On the bill are performances of scenes from the playwright's most beloved plays, and selections from the music they inspired.Concert Program
- "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" from Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter
- Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet, Tchaikovsky
- "St. Crispin's Day" from the film score for Henry V, Patrick Doyle
- St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V
- Part I of Rustics rehearsal from A Midsummer Night's Dream
- "Mambo" from West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein
- Fight scene between Tybalt and Mercution from Romeo and Juliet
- "One Hand, One Heart" from West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein
- Scene from Romeo and Juliet
- Part II of Rustics rehearsal from A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Prelude to Macbeth, Giuseppe Verdi
- Scene from Macbeth-Lord and Lady Macbeth after Duncan's murder
- "Picnic" from the film score for Much Ado About Nothing, Patrick Doyle Claire Bloom: "Sigh no more ladies..."
- Prelude to Otello, Giuseppe Verdi
- Scenes between Othello and Desdemona and Othello and Iago, from Othello
- Duet for Otello and Iago, Verdi's Otello
- Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet, Hector Berlioz
- Ophelia's Death from Hamlet
- "The Death of Ophelia," Hector Berlioz
- Rustics prepare for the play (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
- "The Wedding March" from incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Felix Mendelssohn
- Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Felix Mendelssohn
- Puck's speech, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Finale from incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Felix Mendelssohn
- Oberon and Titania's speeches from A Midsummer Night's Dream