ECHOES
In This Issue:
Students and Chorus Sing Shakespeare
Notes on the Program
Scholarship Winners
Write a Review
MCC’s 2007-2008 Concert Season
Fun Stuff: Mix and Match, Word Find, Shakespeare and West Side Story
Trivia, It’s All about the Words Quiz
Welcome to the “June 2007”issue of ECHOES, targeted to fans and audience of the Monmouth Civic
Chorus. Look for an issue of ECHOES in your e-mail before each of our upcoming concerts.
Students and Chorus sing Shakespeare
Award-winning students from area high schools will join the Monmouth Civic Chorus in
Sounds Like Shakespeare Act II on Saturday, June 9, 2007, at 8:00 p.m. A sequel to the group’s
successful Shakespeare concert of June 2006, the evening celebrates the Bard in music from Broadway
to jazz. The concert features a solo selection by Kerilyn Acer, Mater Dei High School, First Place
Winner of the 2007 Monmouth Civic Chorus Scholarship Award. Dramatic readings will be performed
by Katie Kroeper, Middletown High School South, Second Place Winner of the 2007 Shakespeare
Competition for High School Students, sponsored by the English-Speaking Union, Monmouth County
Branch. Soloists also include Kenneth Wasser, West Long Branch, a perennial local audience favorite.
The performance is at the Two River Theater, 21 Bridge Avenue, Red Bank. Tickets are $25 general
admission, $22 seniors, $20 groups, $5 students. Call (732) 933-9333 or order online at
www.monmouthcivicchorus.org.
Under its award-winning Artistic Director, Dr. Mark Shapiro, the Chorus has been acclaimed as
"close to perfect" (Asbury Park Press), "sonorously impressive" (The Star-Ledger) and "a vital musical
presence on the New Jersey classical music scene" (Classical New Jersey).
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Act II of our Shakespeare sampler begins with a dramatic reading and a reappearance of two composers
last heard at our June 2006 concert. Gyorgy Orban is a Hungarian composer with a delicate touch that
illuminates the sweetness of the poetry. Matthew Harris, who lives and works in New York City, has set many
of Shakespeare’s most familiar poems to music. His lighthearted approach is well-suited to the simplicity of the
texts, intended as folk songs in the context of plays.
Frumi Cohen, creator of children’s musicals, gives us a humorous lesson on Shakespeare’s inventive
language, and American composers Leo Schwartz and William Cowdery provide lovely poetic settings for
men’s and women’s chamber ensembles.
The Swedes have loved jazz ever since Louis Armstrong’s Stockholm debut in 1933, and they’ve loved
Shakespeare ever since the publication of Hamlet in 1601 (the Danish castle at Elsinore can be seen from the
Swedish coast). The contemporary Swedish composers Sven-Eric Johanson and Nils Lindberg bring a jazzinflected idiom to Shakespeare’s charming songs and one of his best-loved sonnets.
London-born George Shearing, composer of Lullaby of Birdland and hundreds of other standards, was
recently knighted by the Queen of England, and is still performing as he nears the age of 90. This legendary
blind pianist knows his way around the classical repertoire, with snippets of Morley and Schubert mixed into his
jazzy settings. Performances by award-winning students Katie Kroeper and Kerilyn Acer show us “the spirit of a
youth that means to be of note” (Antony and Cleopatra).
Leonard Bernstein is celebrated equally for his musical theater works, classical compositions and long
tenure as conductor of the New York Philharmonic. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of West
Side Story, a modern urban retelling of Romeo and Juliet. The smash hit show gave the then-unknown lyricist
Stephen Sondheim his first big break on Broadway.
~ Susan Metz
Scholarship Winners
The Monmouth Civic Chorus announced the winners of its annual vocal scholarships for New
Jersey high school seniors. The awards will be presented at the Chorus's concert on June 9 at 8:00 p.m.
at the Two River Theater, 21 Bridge Avenue, Red Bank, featuring a solo performance by the First
Place winner, Kerilyn Acer, Matawan, who will receive $1500. Kerilyn has been a New Jersey
Governor’s School of the Arts Vocal Scholar, an All-Shore Chorus scholarship recipient, and an AllState Chorus member. She has performed with Phoenix Productions, Center Stage Dance and Theater,
and GB Productions. She is a senior at Mater Dei High School, where she was named Most Valuable
Soprano two years in a row, and plans to attend Westminster Choir College of Rider University.
Second Place awards of $500 each will be given to Stephanie Krizek, Union Beach, and Lauren
Stefanakis, Oceanport. Stephanie received a Governor’s Award and Scholarship from the New Jersey
Music Educators Association, and has been a member of All-State Chorus and All-Shore Chorus. She
has performed with Spotlight Players, Old Bridge Theater Company, and St. Joseph’s Theater
Company, and sang the national anthem for the Lakewood Blue Claws for five seasons. She is a senior
and vocal major at Red Bank Regional High School Visual and Performing Arts Academy, and plans
to attend either Montclair State University or Rowan University.
Lauren received a Scroll of Honor from Omega Psi Phi Fraternity for outstanding vocal
achievement, and was one of 13 students selected statewide for the Rising Stars Student Showcase.
She ranked second in the All-State Opera Festival, and was a member of All-Shore Chorus. A senior at
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the Red Bank Regional High School Visual and Performing Arts Academy, she plans to attend
Brookdale Community College.
Joshua Staudinger, Eatontown, will receive Honorable Mention. Joshua sang in the All-Eastern
Chorus of the Music Educators National Conference, and was invited to sing in the All-USA Chorus.
He was in All-State Chorus for three years, and All-Shore Chorus for four years, along with All-Shore
Band. Joshua plays piano, organ, clarinet, trumpet, saxophone, mellophone, glockenspiel, guitar and
flute, and is an organist at Monmouth Grace United Methodist Church. He is a senior at Monmouth
Regional High School, and plans to attend Boston University.
Audition judges were William R. Shoppell, Jr., Conductor Emeritus, Monmouth Civic Chorus;
Alice Berman, past Executive Director, Monmouth Conservatory of Music; Neil Brown, Director of
Music Ministries, United Methodist Church of Red Bank; and Charles Harris, Director of Music, First
Presbyterian Church of Red Bank. For more than 20 years, the Monmouth Civic Chorus has awarded
over $50,000 in scholarships to New Jersey high school seniors of outstanding vocal promise. For
more information or to donate to the scholarship fund, call 732-933-9333 or visit
www.monmouthcivicchorus.org.
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Write a Review!
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after the concert for this new interactive feature.
MCC’s 2007-2008 Concert Season
LisztFest
The life and music of the virtuoso genius Franz Liszt
With guest artists Karin Gargone, Charles Harris
and Vladislav Kovalsky
Saturday, November 17, 2007, 8:00 pm
First Presbyterian Church of Red Bank (Tower Hill)
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Selections from Handel's Messiah
Plus Christmas Pops
It won't be Christmas without it!
Sunday, December 16, 2007, 4:00 pm
Count Basie Theatre
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Mozart Mass in C Minor
The “Great” Mass, reverent and joyful
Vaughan Williams
Toward the Unknown Region
Serenade to Music
Walt Whitman’s journey of the daring soul
and Shakespeare’s vision of the power of harmony
Saturday, March 29, 2008, 8:00 pm
Count Basie Theatre
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Golden gate
Come with us to San Francisco in the Roaring Twenties
for the world premiere of a new musical
Stay tuned for date and location
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Only $60 for 3 concerts
Add Messiah Plus Christmas Pops for $20 –
Subscribers get $40 seats for half price!
The only way to guarantee you get the best seats for Messiah
Order on-line at monmouthcivicchorus.org or call 732-933-9333
Fun Stuff: Mix and Match
On the left side of the puzzle are the names of the songs we will be singing in the June 9th concert. Try
to match them up with the Shakespearean works listed below, from which the songs are taken. And for
a special bonus, try to match up the phrase with the song and work. One answer has been filled in for
you: Some works will be found more than once.
Shakespearean Work:
As You Like It
Cymbeline
King Henry VIII
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Romeo and Juliet
Sonnet 18
The Winter’s Tale
Twelth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Phrases:
Fear no more the heat o’th’ sun, nor the furious winter’s rages
Youth’s a stuff will not endure
Fly away breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding
With every thing that pretty is, my lady sweet. arise
In sweet music is such art
Then nightly sings the staring owl, tu-whit; tu-who, a merry note
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
But my kisses bring again seals of love
Let us all ring fancy’s knell; I’ll begin it-Ding dong, bell
And turn his merry note unto the sweet bird’s throat
Melodious birds sing madrigals
Sonnets
It was a lover and his lass, with a hey, and a ho, and a hey no-ni-no
With heigh, the sweet birds, O how they sing
The cuckoo then, on ev’ry tree, mocks married men, for thus sings he
The heav’n such grace did lend her
Pinch him & burn him & turn him about till candles and starlight and moonshine be out
But that’s all one, our play is done, and we’ll strive to please you ev’ry day
Sure I must perish by your charms, unless you save me in your arms
I’ll see my love tonight and for us stars will stop where they are
Song we are Singing
Shakespearean Work
O Mistress Mine
Come Away, Death
Orpheus with his Lute
Take, O Take Those Lips
Away
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Phrase within the Song
Tell Me Where is Fancy
Bred
Under the Greenwood
Tree
Lovers Love the Spring
Winter
Dirge
Fear no more the heat o’th’ sun,
nor the furious winter’s rages
Cymbeline
Hark, Hark! The Lark
Shall I Compare Thee
Live with me and be my
love
When Daffodils begin to
Peer
It was a lover and his
Lass
Spring
Who is Sylvia
Fie on sinful Fantasy
Hey,ho, the wind and the
rain
If music be the food of
love
Selections from West
Side Story
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How many words can you find within the word “Shakespeare”? Our puzzle creator has found
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Shakespeare Trivia:
In the song “Live With Me and Be My Love” by Shearing, after we sing the word “madrigal”, 8
measures of a real madrigal by Thomas Morley are cleverly inserted. Can you name it?
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West Side Story Trivia:
Timelines
What year was the musical West Side Story first performed on Broadway?
What year did the movie come out?
In what time period is West Side Story set?
Who’s Who
Who wrote the book, West Side Story?
Who directed and choreographed the original Broadway production?
Who portrayed Maria and Tony in the original Broadway show?
Who portrayed Maria and Tony in the movie version?
Who sang the vocals of Maria in the movie version?
Who sang the vocals of Tony in the move recording version?
Who played Anita in the original Broadway cast?
Who played Anita in the movie?
Facts and Figures
How many Academy Awards did the movie West Side Story win?
Which two actors won Oscars for their roles?
How many weeks did the movie soundtrack peak at No. 1 on Billboard charts?
In what New York theater did the Broadway version of West Side Story debut?
How many performances of West Side Story ran on Broadway?
Although nominated for Best Musical in 1957, West Side Story did not win. What show
won that year?
In what city is West Side Story set?
What were the names of the two gangs?
What was the police officer’s name?
The Music
Who wrote the music to West Side Story?
Who wrote the lyrics to West Side Story?
What line did the lyricist write to rhyme with the police officer’s name?
What, according to Tony, is “the most beautiful sound I ever heard?”
What four musical styles are woven into the music?
West Side Story’s music is based largely on what musical interval?
Which two songs did Barbra Streisand sing during her ONE VOICE concert?
Who sang Maria and Tony in the 1985 studio recording “operatic version” of West Side
Story? Who conducted this version?
Bernstein wrote some music originally intended for West Side Story that wasn’t used in
the production but became integrated into a later work. What was it?
Shakespeare and West Side Story
West Side Story was a modern day production of which Shakespeare play?
Which West Side Story character fills the part of Paris from Shakespeare’s play?
West Side Story’s Tony fills the part of which character in Shakespeare’s play?
Which character in West Side Story fills the part of Shakespeare’s Mercutio?
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Six people die in Shakespeare’s play. How many die in West Side Story?
Riff and Bernardo’s deaths are based on the deaths of which original characters from
Shakespeare’s play?
Fun With Shakespeare: It’s All About the Words
Every one of these questions has one answer, found in the list below the quiz.
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In “Take, O Take Those Lips Away”, the seals of love are ___.
(“Take…”) They are “sealed in vain” because her lips “were forsworn”, meaning:
(“Take…”) The mistress’ eyes “mislead” the morn in that:
In “Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred”*, if “fancy…is engendered in the eyes” it dies because:
(“Tell”) A knell is rung for “fancy” because it:
“Under the Greenwood” tree is what type of song?
Several of our pieces suggest the carpe diem theme; the song which is a direct address to a woman
expressing carpe diem is:
“Youth’s a stuff will not endure” means:
The shroud of “Come Away, Death” is stuck with yew because:
The speaker of “Come Away” probably wants the “fair, cruel maid” to:
Should the worst happen, the speaker of “Come” at least has the satisfaction of wallowing in self-pity
and making sure that the cruel fair never finds his ___, (though he probably, in his self-centered way,
believes she will be sorry later for what she has done to him and would want to weep over his burial
place.)
Orpheus, with his lute, commands such attention that he conquers nature and ordinary process,
effectively stopping ___.
In “When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue”, “pied” means ___, (but I wish it meant stuffed with pastry.)
In “Daisies”, “lady-smocks and cuckoo-buds” are both ___.
(“Daisies”) Married men dislike the song of the ___, because it suggests cuckold.
In “Winter”, the “parson’s saw” is a:
In “Winter”, the crabs that hiss in the bowl are ___.
(“Winter”) To “keel the pot” is to:
In “Dirge”, “scepter, learning, physic” represent acquisitions that one might make in a lifetime, i.e. ___,
___, and ___, all ending at death.
In “Dirge”, “consign to thee” means, approximately:
“Quiet consummation” in the context of “Dirge” is:
In “Hark! Hark! The Lark”, Mary buds “wink”, meaning:
“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” includes a reference to “nature’s changing course”,
obviously a reference to the changes brought about by time, but “untrimmed” makes the reference also
an allusion to the sport of ___.
“Live With Me and Be My Love”* is a:
The girl who responds to the invitation of “Live With Me” seems to be ___ in countering the invitation,
as seen in the word “might”: If only we could count on youth and the truth in every shepherd’s tongue.
The girl calls the pleasures “pretty” because she has to dismiss them as:
The refusal of the girl ends with the word “love” because:
In “When Daffodils…”, “Heigh!, the doxy” means, roughly:
A “pugging tooth” is:
In “Fie on sinful fantasy,” “luxury” is:
The “tosspots” of “Hey, ho, the wind and the rain” are:
“Turtles, rooks, and daws” (“Daisies pied”) are all ___.
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*”Tell me where…” is sung while Bassanio debates which casket to choose; he rejects more decorative
models for a lead casket, not fooled by the appearance of beauty, and finds within a portrait of Portia, a
discovery which delights them both.
*The Passionate Pilgrim, published in 1599, is a collection of poems mistakenly attributed to Shakespeare;
only 5 or 6 of the poems are his, and “Come Live With Me” is actually by Christopher Marlowe.
a. crabapples
b. pastoral fantasy of a life not subject to time, countered by the realism of the reply of the girl
c. kisses
d. time
e. variegated
f. the appeal to the senses is ephemeral
g. they have falsely promised a new beginning (a dawning); they are so bright that there is a false
dawn
h. “O Mistress Mine”
i. grave
j. dies, and soon (“in the cradle”) after birth
k. flowers
l. this plant is associated with death
m. wise saying
n. a peaceful, undisturbed end
o. follow your path
p. they lied
q. blink in strong sunlight
r. she probably wishes she could live with him
s. lovely on the surface, but trivial, ephemeral
t. thirsty, moist
u. give in to him, not kill him
v. drunken wastrels
w. sexual license, licentiousness
x. let’s go! Wench
y. stir energetically, turning up the layer at the bottom
z. a pastoral fantasy of life without responsibility (with the dim recognition that the fantasy
is not entirely reasonable, given the reality of process and time: “winter and rough
weather”
ab. wistful
ac. we don’t stay young forever
ad. cuckoo
ae. birds: (turtledoves)
bc. power, knowledge, healing (the art of)
bd. Sailing
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Puzzle Answers: Mix and Match:
Song we are Singing
O Mistress Mine
Come Away, Death
Shakespearean Work
Twelth Night
Twelth Night
Orpheus with his Lute
Take, O Take Those Lips
Away
Tell Me Where is Fancy
Bred
Under the Greenwood
Tree
Lovers Love the Spring
King Henry VIII
Measure for Measure
Winter
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Dirge
Cymbeline
Hark, Hark! The Lark
Cymbeline
Shall I Compare Thee
Sonnet 18
Live with me and be my
love
When Daffodils begin to
Peer
It was a lover and his
Lass
Spring
The Winter’s Tale
Who is Sylvia
Fie on sinful Fantasy
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Merry Wives of Windsor
Hey,ho, the wind and the
rain
Twelth Night
If music be the food of
love
Selections from West
Side Story
Twelth Night
Sure I must perish by your charms,
unless you save me in your arms
Romeo and Juliet
I’ll see my love tonight and for us
stars will stop where they are
Merchant of Venice
As You Like It
As You Like It
Phrase
Youth’s a stuff will not endure
Fly away breath; I am slain by a fair
cruel maid
In sweet music is such art
But my kisses bring again seals of
love
Let us all ring fancy’s knell; I’ll
begin it-Ding dong, bell
And turn his note unto the sweet
bird’s throat
It was a lover and his lass, with a
hey, and a ho, and hey no-ni-no
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
tu-whit; tu-who, a merry note
Fear no more the heat o’th’ sun, nor
the furious winter’s rages
With every thing that pretty is, my
lady sweet. arise
Thou art more lovely and more
temperate
Melodious birds sing madrigals
The Winter’s Tale
With heigh, the sweet birds, O how
they sing
As You Like It
It was a lover and his lass, with a hey,
and a ho, and a hey no-ni-no
Love’s Labour’s Lost
The cuckoo then, on ev’ry tree,
mocks married men, for thus sings
he
The heav’n such grace did lend her
Pinch him and burn him and turn
him about till candles and starlight
and moonshine be out
But that’s all one, our play is done,
and we’ll strive to please you ev’ry
day
Answers to Shakespeare Trivia: Now Is the Month of Maying
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Answers to West Side Story Trivia;
Timelines
What year was the musical West Side Story first performed on Broadway?
What year did the movie come out?
In what time period is West Side Story set?
Who’s Who
Who wrote the book, West Side Story?
Who directed and choreographed the original Broadway production?
Who portrayed Maria and Tony in the original Broadway show?
Who portrayed Maria and Tony in the movie version?
Who sang the vocals of Maria in the movie version?
Who sang Tony’s role on the move recording version?
Who played Anita in the original Broadway cast?
Who played Anita in the movie?
Facts and Figures
How many Academy Awards did the movie West Side Story win?
Which two actors won Oscars for their roles?
How many weeks did the movie soundtrack peak at No. 1 on the Billboard
charts?
In what New York theater did West Side Story debut?
How many performances of West Side Story ran on Broadway?
Although nominated for Best Musical in 1957, West Side Story did not win.
What show won that year?
In what city is West Side Story set?
What were the names of the two gangs?
What was the police officer’s name?
The Music
Who wrote the music to West Side Story?
Who wrote the lyrics to West Side Story?
What four musical styles are woven into the music?
Which two songs did Barbra Streisand sing during her ONE VOICE
concert?
Who sang Maria and Tony in the 1985 studio recording “operatic version”
of West Side Story? Who conducted this version?
What line did the lyricist write to rhyme with the police officer’s name?
What, according to Tony, is “the most beautiful sound I ever heard?”
Bernstein wrote some music originally intended for West Side Story that
wasn’t used in the production but became integrated into a later work. What
was it?
West Side Story’s music is notable for being based largely on what musical
interval?
Shakespeare and West Side Story
West Side Story was a modern day production of which Shakespeare play?
Which character fills the part of Paris from Shakespeare’s play in West Side
Story?
Tony from West Side Story fills the part of which character in Shakespeare’s
play?
Which character in West Side Story fills the part of Mercutio from
Shakespeare’s play?
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1957
1961
Late 50’s, early 60’s
Arthur Laurents
Jerome Robbins
Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert
Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer
Marni Nixon (dubbed for actress
Natalie Wood)
Jimmy Bryant (dubbed for actor
Richard Beymer)
Chita Rivera
Rita Moreno
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Rita Moreno, George Chakiris
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Winter Garden Theater
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Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man
New York City
Jets and Sharks
Krupke
Leonard Bernstein
Stephen Sondheim
Classical, jazz, pop, rock
Something’s Coming and Somewhere
Kiri Te Kanawa, Jose Carreras,
Bernstein
“It’s just my bringin’ upke’ “
Maria
Chichester Psalms
Tritone (“Maria”)
Romeo and Juliet
Chino
Romeo
Riff
Six people die in Shakespeare’s play. How many die in West Side Story?
Riff and Bernardo’s deaths are based on the deaths of which original
characters from Shakespeare’s play?
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Tybalt and Mercutio
Answers to: Fun With Shakespeare: It’s All About the Words
1c, 2p, 3g, 4f, 5j, 6z, 7h, 8ac, 9l, 10u, 11i, 12d, 13e, 14k, 15ad, 16m, 17a, 18y, 19bc,
20o, 21n, 22q, 23bd, 24b, 25ab, 26s, 27r, 28x, 29t, 30w, 31v, 32ae
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