And I prithy hold thy peace
I found this recording on my mac today and I thought you might like to hear it. Its my own voice multitracked. I was in a performance of Twelfth Night some years ago and this one of the incidental songs which Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Feste sing in a night of drunken revelry. Its a simple catch (a sort of round - think 'row row row your boat') by Thomas Ravenscroft, and is almost contemporary with Twelfth Night. Ravenscroft wrote quite a bit of music to the songs in Shakespeare's plays, but they very seldom are performed with the plays. They are not masterworks but are quite pretty.
I recorded it in about 10 mins while my wife was gossiping on the phone, so don't judge me too harshly!
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Twelfth Night? I don’t believe it!
Last night we went to see Twelfth Night, an RSC production in Duke of York theatre, London. This has to be one of my favourite of Shakespeare’s comedies, largely because it was my first foray into the world of acting. Actually that’s not true, I was a non-singing named character in a school musical called Damn Yankees, and I wrote several skits over the years which I performed at annual comedy evenings. The sort of comedy evenings which probably would not be at all amusing without large quantities of alcohol. Fortunately these were well before the days when poor students could afford video cameras and you were lucky if you even had a phone in your house, let alone in your pocket.
The plot of Twelfth Night is partly about mistaken identity, asking the audience to be generous with their disbelief of ‘identical’ but different gender twins, and partly about gulling an authority figure who thinks he is chocolate. In the warm, open-air, Everyman Summer festival of 2001 I let loose on the amateur theatre going world my Sir Andrew Aguecheek. In this production, my counterpart was James Fleet (who also played the idiot son, Hugo Horton, in the Vicar of Dibley).
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