Four Shakespeare Fragments (2022)

For Voice and Piano

Duration: 8’

Movement Titles: Macbeth 4:i | Othello 1:i | As You Like It 3:v | Julius Caesar 2:ii

First Performance: 27 March 2023 / Cory Schantz / Reinhardt University, Falany Performing Arts Center, Flint Hall / Waleska, Georgia.

Text: William Shakespeare (E)

Dedication: "Composed for and dedicated to Cory Schantz, 2021.”

Publisher: Peermusic Classical

Hagen with Cory Schantz and Anne Beloncik Schantz, June 15, 2018, Rhinebeck, NY. p/c: Gilda Lyons

TEXTS

  1. Macbeth 4:i
    By the pricking of my thumbs,
    Something wicked this way comes.
    Double, double toil and trouble;
    Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

  2. Othello 1:i
    I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,
    For daws to peck at.

  3. As You Like It 3:v
    The fool doth think he is wise,
    But the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

  4. Julius Caesar 2:ii
    Cowards die many times before their deaths;
    The Valiant never taste of death but once.