Practice Tracks For Singers
In 2019 I created the score for Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s Summer Season on Pericles. Rehearsal tracks and original score below. The music was largely setting the narrator of Gower to music, reimagined as a four in one quartet of Ariel with the cast acting as chorus spirits during some of the songs.
Prologue - To Sing A Song
4 Ariels and cast as ‘spirits’
Spirits joins in the humming chorus up to measure 29.
On rehearsal tracks, singing begins around ‘30.
Act II Chorus - Now The Wind Begins To Blow
4 Ariels and cast as ‘spirits’
Spirits create the storm measures 77 to 91 with chanting and sound effects.
Act III Chorus - Sleepy Slacked
4 Ariels
Act IV Chorus - Imagine Pericles/Now To Marina
all Ariels. Spirits sing to measure 23.
Act IV Scene I Marina’s Song- While Summer Days Do Last
Marina solo
Act IV Scene II Tavern Song - The Luckless Sailor
Crusty Bard Solo
Act IV Scene IV - Me Who Stands I’ The Gaps & In Sorrow
all Ariels and spirits.
Act V Chorus - Our Story Says
all Ariels
Act V Scene I Marina’s Song recap - While Summer Days Do Last
Marina solo
Epilogue - Crowned With Glory
all Ariels and spirits.
Measures 16 to 47 are cut. This text about lesser characters, where the play has already shown what happened to them dropped the energy. Please replace the current text at 48 to 51 'the worth that learned charity age wears' with the text currently at measure 16 to 19 'led on by heav'n and crowned with joy at last.'