#Joshua Chandos

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Less Dumas and More Dumbass

THE THREE MUSKETEERS The Attic Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Friday 11th August 2023 “This isn’t a pantomime!” sneers the eminently booable Cardinal Richelieu, after encouraging us to boo him.  No, it isn’t.  Billed as a family show, this new adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic is by Olivia Holmes, who gives us an exuberant retelling with an emphasis on daftness.  Silly jokes abound.  The…

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Favorite History Books || The Black Prince: England’s Greatest Medieval Warrior by Michael Jones ★★★☆☆

The Prince’s martial exploits were the stuff of legend even in his own lifetime. On 26 Au- gust 1346, at the age of sixteen, he fought heroically with his father in an army that crushed the French at Crécy. Ten years later, on 19 September 1356, by now a commander in his own right, he turned the tables on his numerically superior opponent, capturing King John II of France in battle at Poitiers, one of the great English victories of the Hundred Years War. In 1362, he became prince of Aquitaine, holding a magnificent court at Bordeaux that mesmerized the brave but unruly Gascon nobility and drew them like moths to the flame of his cause. Five years later, he led a great Anglo-Gascon army across the Pyrenees into Spain (crossing by the mountain pass at Roncesvalles, where Count Roland had fought a valiant rearguard action to save Charlemagne’s army seven centuries earlier), winning a stunning victory against the odds at Nájera that restored to the throne King Pedro of Castile, who had been ousted by his bastard half-brother. Edward’s meteoric military rise captured the imagination of Europe. The chronicler Jean Froissart saw him – at the outset of his career at least – as a model of chivalric virtue.

Edward became known to posterity as the ‘Black Prince’, a soubriquet that was not in existence when the Chandos Herald wrote a long poem (circa 1385) on La Vie et Faites d’Armes d’une très noble Prince de Wales et Aquitaine (The Life and Feats of Arms of the most noble Prince of Wales and Aquitaine), a tribute to a man seen as a paragon of chivalry, and in fact was used only from the sixteenth century. It is found in notes of the antiquary John Leland in the early 1540s and first appeared in print in Richard Grafton’s Chronicle in 1569. More than twenty years later, in William Shakespeare’s Henry V (Act 2, Scene 4) the French ruler Charles VI says that his countrymen fear King Henry because of his ancestry, his ‘heroical seed’... That ‘black name’ is now the standard way of describing the man. Some have suggested that the ‘Black’ is an allusion to the black armour that he wore at his first battle (although the evidence for this is scanty); others, that it is derived from the cruel way he waged war in France. When I inspect the tomb itself, I notice that the heraldic backdrop to his tournament badges is black – the colour forms part of a show of jousting prowess. Whatever the explanation for this knightly soubriquet, it was synonymous with a single-minded dedication to the warrior ethos, and the fighting fraternity of Europe’s elite.

In 1688 the antiquary Joshua Barnes wrote a historical biography of Edward III and his son, the Black Prince, praising the prince’s feats-of-arms; some seventy years later David Hume, in his History of England, also extolled his martial virtues. Indeed, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries this ‘Black Prince’ was seen in straightforward, heroic terms. On 16 September 1903 a mounted statue of the Prince was unveiled in City Square, Leeds, proclaiming him as ‘the flower of England’s chivalry’. However, modern scholarship has been more critical of him, criticizing his lack of administrative ability and also his failures of political judgement. He is seen as fixated on his military career, inflexible in his approach to government and limited in his broader abilities. As I gaze on the tomb, I wonder if French manuscript collections, many of them underexploited, can cast fresh light on this fascinating figure.

The chronicler of the abbey of Moissac, Aymeric de Peyrac, for example, showed that the Prince could be engaging, humorous and pleasingly direct. He recalled the Prince asking one of the monks, who was famed for his melodious singing voice, to take Mass. At its end, the Prince greeted the man, thanked him and said: ‘I am sorry so much misfortune has be- fallen you – and that your good friends are no longer with you.’ The monk looked a little surprised and asked him why he had said that. ‘Well,’ the Prince replied, ‘I noticed that in the service you rushed through the Office for the Living but seemed to spend an eternity on the Office for the Dead.’ The monk looked at the Prince for a while, smiled, and then said: ‘I feel that the living can more easily look after themselves; it is those souls trapped in purgatory who really need my assistance.’ This was an age of violence and frequent visitations of the plague, a horror that struck communities rapidly and without warning; an age that demanded the warrior should prepare to face death, at any time or place. For a moment the Black Prince seemed lost in his own thoughts. Then he smiled back, and thanked the monk for his answer. The two men became friends.

The last years of the Prince’s life were blighted by sickness and he was only able to attend his final military engagement, the siege of Limoges, in 1370, carried on a stretcher. According to the chronicler Jean Froissart, the Black Prince – increasingly frustrated by his own debilitating sickness and the deteriorating war situation – sacked the town and put its civilian population to the sword. This striking image of a chivalric hero falling below the standards that had made him admired throughout Europe has lodged itself in the popular imagination, but I find myself wondering whether it really happened in the way that Froissart described it. Whatever the truth of Limoges, there was now a cloud hanging over English fortunes. The Prince relinquished his duchy of Aquitaine due to ill health and spent his last years con- fined to his sickbed. He died on 8 June 1376, aged only forty-five. Nine years later the Black Prince’s magnificent tomb was completed by his son, now ruling the kingdom as Richard II. There was no more appetite for foreign war; the realm was divided by internal dissension and unrest. The Prince’s memorial at Canterbury became a memorial to a bygone era.

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Review of “Bruch: Scottish Fantasy.” Also, Violin Concerto. Joshua Bell, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Sony 19075 84200 2

Since its founding by John Churchill and Sir Neville Marriner in 1959, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields has been among the most-prominent chamber orchestras in the world. I was lucky enough to have begun collecting their recordings about the time Sir Neville started conducting them from the podium in the early 1960's, and I have followed their career through the years on L'Oiseau-Lyre, Argo, Decca, Philips, EMI, Collins, Chandos, DG, CORO, and now Sony. Although they seemed to lose a little of their recording presence during the early 2000's, their current Music Director since 2011, violinist Joshua Bell, has brought them back into the public eye. I certainly welcome any new recording by them.

The current disc features two of the most-popular works by the German Romantic composer Max Bruch (1838–1920): his Scottish Fantasy and Violin Concerto No. 1. Record producers and conductors often pair these pieces on their discs, but seldom is the Scottish Fantasy announced so prominently. Indeed, in this case it is the only work mentioned on the cover of Bell's album. I didn't even know they included the Violin Concerto until I looked at the back of the jewel box.

To read the full review, click here:

https://classicalcandor.blogspot.com/2018/07/bruch-scottish-fantasy-cd-review.html

John J. Puccio, Classical Candor

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Handel, the Duke of Chandos, and the finest Baroque Church in England

Accidentally came across this gem at Great Witley, Worcestershire, a comparatively rare example of a baroque church installed following a faculty in the early seventeenth century.  Apparently many of the fittings came from the Duke Chandos’s Cannon’s Place, Edgware, including the Handel organ, which is ‘one of the finest in the Worcester diocese’.  

Particularly fine are the ten stained glass windows by Joshua Price, which also came from the Duke of Chandos.  Hard to pick a favourite, but I particularly like the use of gold to suggest things of heavenly origin:

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Silver and Gold

TREASURE ISLAND Attic Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, 9th August 2024 The greatest adventure story ever written receives the Tread The Boards treatment in this lively and largely faithful adaptation by Catherine Prout.  Being the summer family show, expect a lot of silliness and a barrage of jokes, most of them funny, some of them gloriously groanworthy.  Lots of the jokes come from a puppet…

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Abridged Too Far?

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) The Attic Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Friday 7th June 2024 After five months of exile, thanks to flood damage to the building, Tread The Boards Theatre Company is back with a new season, and it’s certainly good to see them at the start of what promises to be an exciting season. The opener is this madcap nonsense, written by Adam Long,…

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Big Dick Energy

DICK WHITTINGTON The Attic Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Friday 15th December 2023 This year’s seasonal offering from Tread The Boards is the only pantomime based around an historical figure, but don’t let that put you off!  Director John Robert Partridge and his cast of eight go all out to present this joyous piece of theatre.  What it may lack in terms of scale, it more than compensates for…

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The Man-She of Inisherin - sorry, Illyria!

TWELFTH NIGHT The Attic Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Sunday 2nd April 2023 When Viola washes up from a shipwreck, she believes her twin brother to have perished and so she dons male clothing and finds work running errands for the local duke.  Director John Robert Partridge gives his Illyria and Oirish setting, bejabbers, a world of greenery and pub furniture.  For the most part, it works very…

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Merry (Christmas) Men

ROBIN HOOD The Attic Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Friday 16th December, 2022 You might think the intimate performance space at Stratford’s Attic Theatre would be too restrictive to stage a pantomime.  Well, you’d be reckoning without the genius of Tread The Boards’ resident writer-director John Robert Partridge.  He puts the focus on his cast of six to deliver all the conventions of the art…

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Man-made Man

FRANKENSTEIN The Attic Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Saturday 15th October, 2022 Back in 1818, young Mary Shelley invented the science fiction genre with her gothic novel that deals with those little things like creation, life and death.  By creating life and thereby usurping God, Victor Frankenstein then shirks his responsibilities as a creator.  His creation, unguided, has to find his own way…