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This weekend, soprano Custer LaRue and lute player Howard Bass will bring to The Theatre at Washington, Va. a concert of English and French Renaissance songs and solos and Anglo-American ballads. The duo performs a program entitled, “Like As The Lute.”
Soprano Custer LaRue has been recognized by critics and audiences alike as one of America’s leading early music singers. She has recorded English and Scottish music with the Baltimore Consort for the Dorian label. Her singing was called “pure and gorgeous” by “CD Review.” A “Stereophile” reviewer wrote, “After hearing LaRue's incredibly gorgeous rendition of ‘In a Garden So Green,’ I stopped the disc and just sat for a while getting my breath back.”
Howard Bass has performed as soloist, accompanist, and in ensembles throughout the United States. In the metropolitian Washington, D.C. area, he has performed and recorded with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Folger Consort, the Baltimore Consort, La Rondinella and the Choral Arts Society of Washington.
Among the popular and wellloved ballads in the program are “Barbara Alley,” “Early One Morning," and “The Ashgrove.” “Like as the Lute," from which the program draws its title, is a song by John Danyel, with words by his brother, who was one of the court poets for Queen Elizabeth I. Other composers whose music is featured include John
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