The Game of Love: Winners & Losers

Friday, February 10, 2012 - 7:30pm
Event Location: 
Lethbridge Public Library Theatre

Love is in the air! From its deepest passions to heartbreaking cruelties, all aspects of love are musically revealed during The Game of Love: Winners & Losers on Feb. 10 at 7:30 pm at the Lethbridge Public Library Theatre.

Learn about the many interpretations of love by the masters of music with an insightful lecture by Black preceding the concert at 7:30 pm.  The evening’s program, performed by U of L music faculty and students includes Chopin’s passionate Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 for piano, Schumann’s Romance for Flute and Piano, and three excerpts from the song cycleTry Me Good King:  Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIIIby Libby Larsen. “As the title indicates, the texts of the songs are drawn from the last words of Henry VIII's wives, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves,” says Dr. Brian Black. “All are very dramatic - particularly of Anne Boleyn’s - which sets her words on the eve of her execution.”

From Thomas Morley’s madrigal,Though Philomela Lost her Love, sung by the U of L Women's Choir, to two love songs by Debussy, the program presents classical compositions devoted to the lighter and darker side of love from the Elizabethan age to the 20th century.

Admission to The Game of Love: Winners & Losers is free and everyone is welcome.