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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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Ian Higginson - Biographical Notes on a Lancashire Composer

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Ian Higginson Conductor – Composer – Organist – Teacher – Examiner Ian Higginson was born on Merseyside and moved to Gloucestershire in 1983. He is well known as an organist, conductor, accompanist, composer and arranger and has performed in many of the country's leading cathedrals, churches and concert halls. Ian studied the organ with Ian Tracey (Liverpool Cathedral) and John Scott (St Paul's Cathedral), David Saint (St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham) and the late John Scott (Saint Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue, New York). Ian has also studied conducting with Jonathan Delmar and the late David Willcocks, and he has performed both as an organist and conductor in many concert halls, cathedrals and churches across the UK, USA and Europe .   He has also studied conducting with the late Dr Melville Cook, Jonathan Delmar and Sir David Willcocks. In addition to conducting Cheltenham Choral Society (a post which he has held since 1989) and the English Concertanté Singers and Orchestr...
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