Set 5 – “Down! Thou Climbing Sorrow” The Lute Society of America’s video excerpted from our presentation of Songs From Shakespeare: True Love Never Did Run Smooth at the June 2010 Lute Festival at Case Western Reserve University. Featuring Garald Farnham, Alane Marco, Christopher Preston Thompson, Erika Lloyd. Stage direction and text adaptation by Katherine Harte-DeCoux. Songs: “Take, o take those lips away” (Measure for Measure); “Blow, blow thou winter wind” (As You Like It); “And will he not come again” (Hamlet); “Full fathom five” (Tempest); “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun” (Cymbeline)

Ariela Farnham and Nancy D’Antonio, daughter and wife of Garald Farnham, created a wonderful video collage set to our performance of “Ther Is No Rose of Such Virtue.” This was recorded live on December 18, 2010, as part of our “A Pennyworth of Christmas” Concert at Advent Lutheran Church NY, NY. Featuring Erika Lloyd (soprano), Alane Marco (mezzo) and Christopher Preston Thompson (tenor). Enjoy!

Our first YouTube video! This is Set 6 – These Most Brisk and Giddy-Paced Times (aka the silly set) from our concert “Songs from Shakespeare” at the LSA Lute Festival in June 2010. Featuring Garald Farnham, Erika Lloyd, Alane Marco and Christopher Preston-Thompson. Stage Direction and Text Adaptation by Katherine Harte-DeCoux from a concept by Garald Farnham and Alane Marco. Songs: “Jog on, jog on the footpath way” (Winter’s Tale); “Three merry men” (Twelfth Night); “Hold thy peace, thou knave” (Twelfth Night); “Under the greenwood tree” (As You Like It); “When that I was a little tiny boy” (Twelfth Night)