Ensemble Chaconne to Perform at LVC Sept. 15

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Renaissance and baroque musical group Ensemble Chaccone will visit Lebanon Valley College Thursday, Sept. 15 as part of the Burgner Chamber Music Series.

ANNVILLE, PA (08/24/2016)(readMedia)-- Renaissance and baroque musical group Ensemble Chaccone will visit Lebanon Valley College Thursday, Sept. 15 as part of the Burgner Chamber Music Series. The series is named in honor of Adelaide Burgner '43, one of the Music Department's most generous benefactors. An introductory concert and demonstration will be held in Lutz Hall of the Bertha Brossman Blair Music Center at 11 a.m. The main concert will take place at 7:30 that evening. Both events are free and open to the public.

Ensemble Chaconne, made up of Peter H. Bloom, renaissance flute; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, renaissance lute; and mezzo-soprano Burcu Gulec transport the audience to Shakespeare's time with "Measure for Measure: The Music of Shakespeare's Plays," hailed by The Portland Press Herald as "the perfect Elizabethan evening." The program features music by leading composers of Shakespeare's time (Robert Johnson, Thomas Morley, and others), with selections from "As You Like It," "Twelfth Night," "Henry V," "The Winter's Tale," "The Tempest," "Hamlet," "Othello," "Macbeth," and other plays.

Celebrating its 31st season, Ensemble Chaconne concertizes internationally, with tours in England, Ontario, and across the United States. The group has performed at the National Gallery in London, the Royal Shakespeare Company's residency at Davidson College, the Edison Theatre in St. Louis, Spivey Hall in Atlanta, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park Florida, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Jordan Hall in Boston, the National Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, and other venues.

Among the many selections in "Measure for Measure" are "The Willow Song" sung by Desdemona in "Othello"; "It Was a Lover and His Lasse" ("As You Like It"); "O Mistress Mine" ("Twelfth Night"); "Hark, Hark! The Lark" ("Cymbeline"); "Take O Take Those Lips Away" ("Measure for Measure"); "Full Fathom Five" ("The Tempest"), "Go from My Window" from Ophelia's mad scene in "Hamlet"; and "Greensleeves," the famous ballad tune (quoted in "The Merry Wives of Windsor").

Adelaide Burgner '43 and her late husband, Newton '32, established The Newton and Adelaide Burgner Endowed Fund for Chamber Music and the Newton and Adelaide Burgner Musical Instrument Endowment Fund at LVC. Adelaide, the first female musician in the history of the Reading Symphony Orchestra, also established the Newton and Adelaide Burgner Professorship in Instrumental Music, an honor currently held by Dr. Johannes Dietrich.

Lebanon Valley College's Music Department offers a variety of public performances by students, faculty, or guest visitors each semester. Please visit www.lvc.edu/music/events.aspx for additional information regarding concerts scheduled for this spring.