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Surrey Advertiser: From Bard to Verse: All the World's a Stage concert at Glive [2016-10-28]

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Surrey Advertiser: From Bard to Verse: All the World's a Stage concert at Glive
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2016
Date:
October 28th, 2016
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Matt Pinches.

IT’S all about timing.
Vivace Chorus are in
their 70th season and
commemorate 400 years
of the great Bard by
incorporating Shakespeare
favourites into their All The
World’s A Stage concert at
G Live on Saturday
November 12.
In collaboration with the
Guildford Shakespeare
Company, who are also
celebrating 10 years, the
choir has put together a
programme of inspired
music, alongside some of
the Bard’s speeches.
Like the choir’s Night at
the Opera evenings, this
concert also features a
big screen, sound and
lighting effects and a few
surprises.
Music includes the

to ackling Macbeth

glorious and romantic
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy
witches, our audience is
Overture by Tchaikovsky,
- in for a treat as we take
a selection of music from
them through
the Laurence Olivier film,
Shakespeare as imagined
Henry V, and Ralph
by some of the world’s
Vaughan William’s popular greatest composers.”
Shakespeare Songs and
Matt Pinches, of the

Serenade to Music.

All works either use
well-known verses from

Guildford Shakespeare
Company, added: “We
have had an

Shakespeare or are

extraordinarily busy and

inspired by his work.
The choir and actors
will be joined by the
Brandenburg Sinfonia and
members of the Sealed
Knot Society.

successful year,
celebrating not just
Shakespeare 400, but 10
years of the Guildford
Shakespeare Company.
“It’s wonderful to be

Conductor Jeremy
Backhouse said: “This
promises to be a fantastic
night of celebration, as
the Shakespeare 400th
year draws to a close.
“From grand romance

included in another local

Shakespeare event.”
Tickets for this triple
celebration are available
from the G Live box office
on 01483 369350 or
online at glive.co.uk.