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The Songs & The Plays - Kean on Shakespeare

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The Songs & The Plays Listen on Youtube Love’s Labours Lost (1593-94) A revised and polished version of this play was presented for Queen Elizabeth I and her court at Christmas 1598. However the elevated language and subject matter of the drama suggests it was always intended for a sophisticated and highly literate audience. There are two parallel plots – one ‘high’ comedy and one ‘low’ comedy. In the high comedy the King of Navarre and his friends make a pact to ‘fast and study’ and to have no contact with women for three years. No sooner have they agreed than the Princess of Aquitaine and her ladies in waiting arrive to discuss ‘state matters’. Inevitably the King falls in love with the Princess and his friends with the French ladies in waiting. The Gentlemen find loophole in their vows and woo and win women with a dance. The Ladies become aware of their broken vows and treat the noblemen with scorn. In the low comedy the page Moth and the clown Costard ridicule the exaggerated m...
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Fernando Obradors - biographical notes & my translations

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  Fernando  Jaumandreu  Obradors                                          1897-1945 The Catalan composer Ob radors was born in Barcelona. Here he studied with Lamote de Grignon and Antonio Nicolau, although he was eventually self taught. He composed minor zarzuelas and symphonic works and became a conductor, directing the Orquesta del Liceo of Barcelona and Radio Barcelona. He subsequently became a teacher at Las Palmas Conservatory and conductor of the Orquesta Filarmónica of the Grand Canaries. There is little documentation about Obradors and his life, but he is most famous for his “Canciones Clásicas Españolas”, composed in the 1920’s. This wonderful collection of four volumes includes brilliantly effective folksongs from diverse regions of Spain. Each song is full of noble lyricism and treated with a personal style. A selection of his songs are included in vo...
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