I was faced with a challenge.

How do I participate in an a cappella group who's goal and intent was to sing a piece as one could imagine the composer desired it to be sung? To engage an audience with text and sound woven together, and inspire them to go further past a performance and seek out the textual source, or become en flamed about harmonic singing and all it's potential?

And how the hell do you do it at a Renaissance festival?

Simple.

You build it, they will come. A love child of Shakespeare's text and many a composer's melodies, *including our own*... enriched with the collaboration and immense talent of those I tapped to build such a beasty with me....and wha-la...

Shakespeare's Love Child was born, and reborn, and born again in many -intets...SAB, then SATB, then SAB, then finally SSATB.

All glorious. All meaningful. All joy.

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Shakespeare's Love Child