COC Free Concert - The Music of Renaissance England May 17, 2007

The Toronto Consort
presents

The Music of Renaissance England
The Toronto Consort takes a musical journey to one of the most exciting periods of English cultural history, and certainly a golden age for English music. From engaging country dances and rollicking ballads, to elegant lute songs and fantasias, this repertoire has a freshness which reaches across the centuries. William Shakespeare, one of the great observers of his age, was well acquainted with the music of the time, and makes clever musical references frequently in his plays and sonnets. Some of the music presented on this program will present works which Shakespeare clearly knew.

Presented in collaboration with the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, on the occasion of the Renaissance Spring Festival 2007

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