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Juilliard Benefit Reading of The Tempest, Featuring Sir Derek Jacobi, Presented June 13

by Andrew Gans13 Jun 2011

Derek Jacobi Photo by Johan Persson

Sir Derek Jacobi, Richard Clifford and Juilliard alumna Monica Raymund perform selected readings from Shakespeare's The Tempest June 13 at Juilliard.

The 7 PM reading is complemented by 17th-century songs and instrumental highlights inspired by Shakespeare's play. Countertenor David Daniels and baritone Bob McDonald are the featured vocalists, performing with Juilliard415, the School's student historical performance group.

Public radio station WQXR 105.9 will host a live stream of the performance. An encore presentation on Classical 105.9 FM WQXR, mainly featuring the musical portions of the performance, will air June 26 at 4 PM.

The evening is a benefit for the Juilliard Drama Division.

a limited number of benefit tickets remain for the performance and post-performance dinner, ranging from $1,000-$50,000. Performance-only benefit tickets range in price from $75-$125. For benefit ticket information call (212) 799-5000 ext. 329. a limited number of non-benefit balcony seats priced at $50 are available by visiting events.juilliard.edu or by calling CenterCharge (212) 721-6500.

Juilliard is located at Lincoln Center, at 155 West 65th Street, just west of Broadway.

Adapted and directed by Clifford, this presentation of The Tempest with period music was first performed in 2010 by the Folger Consort, early music ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, with mostly the same cast.

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Preview of International Baroque Players’s concert, University Church

11:55am Wednesday 16th February 2011

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not to be confused with a famous beer, Johann Heinichen was a composer, born in 1683. “He was involved in the Dresden Court, and he studied for seven years in Italy,” violist Aliye Cornish explained. “For much of that time he was in Venice, and he may have had lessons with Vivaldi. We’re not sure, but we think he may well have done, partly because of the style of his writing. he was a contemporary of J. S. Bach, and seems to be a composer who history has glossed over slightly.”

And that’s something Aliye Cornish is hoping to put right. Brought up in Oxford, she is still based in the city, and is now general manager of the International Baroque Players. on February 24 in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, IBP will play a violin concerto by Heinichen, prior to making the first ever CD of the work.

how, I asked Aliye, was the score discovered?

“Our artistic director, Johannes Pramsohler, has contacts with libraries in London, Paris, Berlin and Kassel. He’s been going through a lot of the Dresden music, because there is so much that hasn’t been recorded, or people don’t really know about.

‘We did a Heinichen concerto in our last project, and it was just astonishingly vibrant — really exciting, interesting music. We couldn’t believe that it doesn’t get played more often: in the same programme we had well-known works by Bach, but at the end people came up to us and said: ‘The Bach was fine, but tell us about Heinichen.’ so hopefully we’re meeting a demand, and showing there’s more to baroque music than the familiar favourites.”

The concert also includes music by Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, and a rarely heard concerto for lute by Fasch. Tickets are available online from Tickets Oxford and We Got Tickets, also by phone on 01865 305305.

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