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Andy Sheppard With Shakespeare Songs at Smock Alley Theatre
Courtesy of Aisling Halligan | Posted on February 16, 2016
Where
Smock Alley Theatre
6-7 Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar
Dublin
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When
Wed, March 16, 2016
20:00
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’The great English poet of the saxophone’, jazz virtuoso Andy Sheppard joins forces with drummer Christophe Marguet and pianist Guillaume de Chassy in a musical journey across Shakespeare’s world. Part-improvised and part-written, the music draws inspiration from Renaissance composers Thomas Morley and William Byrd, with the trio unfolding an extraordinary palette of sounds to conjure up everything from star-crossed lovers and brooding Danish princes to the rustling advance of Birnam Wood.
West Country saxophone colossus Andy Sheppard has composed over 350 works and collaborated with artists as varied as percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, violinist L...