The Good Pennyworths
Erika Lloyd, soprano – Alane Marco, soprano
Christopher Preston Thompson, tenor – Garald Farnham, baritone & lutes
Songs From Shakespeare: True Love Never Did Run Smooth
a staged concert
| Set One: “Sweet Airs that give Delight” | |
| Come unto these yellow sands – The Tempest (Quartet) | set to John Dowland (1563-1626) |
| Where the bee sucks – The Tempest (Quartet) | Robert Johnson (ca. 1590-1633) |
| Orpheus with his lute made trees – Henry VIII (Christopher, Quartet) | set to Thomas Campion (1567-1620) |
| Hark! Hark! The lark – Cymbeline (Christopher) | Robert Johnson |
| Set Two: “This Spring of Love” | |
| When daffodils begin to peer – As You Like It (Erika & Christopher) | set to Thomas Robinson |
| It was a lover and his lass – The Winter’s Tale (Erika & Christopher) | Thomas Morley (b. 1557) |
| Tell me where is fancy bred – Merchant of Venice (Garald & Alane) | set to Thomas Campion |
| Lawn as white as driven snow – The Winter’s Tale (Garald) | set to John Wilson (1595-1673) |
| Get you hence – The Winter’s Tale (Christopher, Alane, Erika) | Robert Johnson |
| Set Three: “Hell hath no Fury” | |
| Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day* – Hamlet (Erika, Alane, Quartet) | set to traditional tune Soldier’s Life |
| The Willow Song – Othello (Erika) | Traditional Ballad |
| Beatrice’s Speech (spoken) – Much Ado About Nothing (Alane) | over Passa ‘e’ Mezzo, Willian Ballet Lute Book |
| Sigh no more, ladies – Much Ado About Nothing (Alane, Quartet) | set to Thomas Ford (d. 1648) |
| Set Four: “True Love never did run Smooth” | |
| O mistress mine – Twelfth Night (Garald) | Thomas Morley |
| Sonnet 128 (spoken) – (Christopher) | over Go from my window, Folger Library MS |
| Farewell, dear love – Twelfth Night (Quartet) | Robert Jones (d. 1615) |
| Set Five: “Down! thou Climbing Sorrow” | |
| Take, o take those lips away – Measure for Measure (Christopher) | set to John Wilson |
| Blow, blow thou winter wind – As You Like It (Alane, Quartet) | set to John Danyel (d. 1625) |
| And will he not come again* – Hamlet (Erika) | Traditional Tune |
| Full fathom five* – The Tempest (Quartet) | Robert Johnson |
| Fear no more the heat o’the sun – Cymbeline (Christopher, Erika, Quartet) | set to John Dowland |
| Set Six: “Brisk and Giddy-Paced Times” | |
| Jog on, jog on the footpath way* – The Winter’s Tale (Quartet) | tune Hanskin var. John Hilton (1599-1657) |
| Three merry men – Twelfth Night (Alane, Garald, Christopher) | Traditional |
| Hold thy peace, thou knave – The Tempest (Quartet) | attrib. Thomas Ravencroft (pub. 1609) |
| Under the greenwood tree – Twelfth Night (Quartet) | set to John Bartlet (fl. 1606-1610) |
| When that I was a little tiny boy* – The Tempest (Quartet) | Traditional Ballad |
Ten-course Renaissance lute in E after Wendelio Venere (1626)
by Lawrence K. Brown, Asheville NC (1987)
Ten-course Renaissance lute in G after Marx Unverdorben, Harvard Collection of Musical Instruments
by Michael Schreiner of Toronto (1999)
*Pieces arranged for four voices by Garald Farnham
Stage direction & Shakespeare text adaptation by Katherine Harte-DeCoux (Artistic Director, Mortal Folly Theatre, NYC)