As Attorney General Ashcroft’s taxpayer-
financed robing of the statue of justice’s
nudity shows, plenty of American politicians
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Shakespeare set to music by Purcell, Gounod,
Sondheim and others, and the following
Thursday, May 22, several UO vocal groups
sing Ralph Vaughan Williams’ setting of a
Shakespeare text, “Serenade to Music,”
along with music by Monteverdi, Handel,
and Portland native Morten Lauridsen.
And choral music fans have one more big
treat before the Bach festival: On Saturday,
May 10, the Eugene Concert Choir and the
Oregon Mozart Players perform one of the
masterpieces of choral-orchestral music:
Haydn’s joyous oratorio, The Creation. And
on Friday, May 16 at the Newman Center,
there’s a free concert of vocal and instrumen-
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Johnson’s readings from Jane Austen.
Some interesting improvisation comes
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phonist Cynthia Mullis, a veteran of well-
regarded ensembles in New York and San
Francisco, plays straight-ahead standards and
originals at Luna with her rhythm section. On
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Heller and band play some of his intrigu-
ingly off-center originals and covers at Jo
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