Benjamin Bagby Beowulf
Show DataBenjamin Bagby: BeowulfFriday, May 1, 2015, 7:30 pmLogan Center, Performance HallMedievalist and musician Benjamin Bagby and his six-string harp bewitch audiences in this “double tour de force of scholarly excavation and artistic dynamism “ (San Francisco Chronicle ), commissioned by the Utrecht Early Music Festival and Lincoln Center.' Bagby mesmerized his Berkeley crowd, which included its share of medieval buffs and scholarsBut while it was happening they might as well have been children sitting around a campfire, listening to ghost stories — the theater was stone silent.' – San Jose Mercury News6:30 PM lecture: Christina von NolckenProgram: Beowulf.This performance will run approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes with no intermission.All tickets include an additional $1 handling fee per ticket.TICKETS FOR THIS PERFORMANCE ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE ONLINE BUT A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE AT THE BOX OFFICE UNTIL SHOW TIME.Back.
Benjamin Bagby Reading Beowulf
Friday / March 24, 2017 / 8 p.m.Beowulf: The Epic in PerformanceBenjamin Bagby, voice and Anglo-Saxon harp“Hwaet!” commands the storyteller. And tremble at this fearsome tale! A millennium or more has passed since the superhero Beowulf appeared in the annals of epic poetry, yet the legend of his bare-handed conquest of the terrifying Grendel endures. As one of the world’s leading practitioners of historically informed music and theater, Benjamin Bagby dramatizes the awe-inspiring poem in the original Anglo-Saxon, while simultaneously accompanying himself on medieval harp. “Bagby mesmerized his crowdthey might as well have been children sitting around a campfire, listening to ghost stories—the theater was stone silent.” ( The Mercury News, San Jose).Is your Anglo-Saxon rusty?
Beowulf Recited
Serial sound forge 9 code activation. Not to worry—there will be English supertitles, and and peruse at any time.$29 / staff - $5 / non-Lafayette students - $6 / Lafayette students - free.