FULL EVENT: The Food of Love

[@Short-Cipher]

Thank you for all the time, effort, and painstaking care that went into this marvelous and varied program. I hope more people were online when it was livestreamed than appear to have viewed it on KZbin after the fact; it's deserving of a larger audience. Again, thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, I watched the majority of it twice. Bravo & Brava!! 👏

[@junehawker2364]

I'm a Golding from Wiltshire I love anything Edward de Vere Thank you for including US Its a beautiful indulgence of music poetry history and mystery ❤

[@ericsangwine6278]

Thanks from Canada for an entertaining and thoughtful program!

[@annak29]

Brilliant, fascinating, and so deeply enriching. Your reclamation of the truth of the literature and arts in their contexts and sources massively deepens it's meaning, relevance, joy, and living legacy in our own lives. How humble and endearing is each one of these gifted passionate vivacious people! 💖💝💐

[@duncanmckeown1292]

Thanks for all you do here shining a light on this amazing subject and dispelling a centuries-long mystery. Just a word on Shakespeare and music. Being from Norwich, I found out recently that there has been a puzzle for centuries among Stratfordians trying to find a link between Thomas Morley and Will Shakspere. The famous Norwich born composer (1557-1602) wrote an "ayre" that is in As You Like It: "It was a lover and his lass", which appears in a printed anthology of 1600. The best the orthodox can come up with is the evidence that both, at one time, apparently lived in the same parish in London. Not terribly conclusive? Of course, if you start with an Oxfordian position...there is little to puzzle over! Morley was a prize pupil of William Byrd who was a close, lifetime friend of Oxford. Even writing that wonderful little march for him! Morley was also, as musicologists all agree, the most Italianate of English composers...something that Oxford could not fail to notice. Incidentally, all three men exhibited (to various degrees) Catholic leanings. One more little example of how the Oxfordian perspective can add to knowledge in the most unexpected ways!

[@chappellroseholt5740]

As a brand new member of the de Vere Society I am thrilled at all of the videos I have to catch up on. This webinar is wonderful and I have so much appreciation for all the work and coordinating that went into it. I am in Concord, CA., an East Bay neighbor to San Francisco and Berkeley. I hope more people see this. I will share it on my Facebook page, too.

[@6deste]

That was amazing, thank you all

[@navik2815]

At 3.51.33, Derek Jacoby responds to a question about how DeVere’s musical rhythm influences his performance: “the poetry, the music, is a given. It’s in the words”. As a graduate student in the 90’s, I loved, studied, and did my Masters Thesis on the Music of the Spheres as expressed particularly in As You Like It. Of course, I fell in love with the plays, but it wasn’t until I purchased and listened to Allen Mandelbaum’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, as read by Derek, that my love affair with iambic pentameter began. Your method works, for the music is, indeed, in the words, as well as the meaning. It was such an awakening for me that I called Allen at his Wake Forest office (a no-no in Academia), and he answered the phone, graciously inviting me for a 6 hour lesson on how to write in the beautiful heart-language of I-Am. When I later began teaching at a Community College, I created a class devoted to reading texts aloud. I remember one student in particular who was used to failing every English class, but he infused Iago with such personal truth, I actually saw this villain in a brand new light, and the student received his first A ever! Sorry to go on for so long, but this webinar gave me an opportunity to thank you for animating texts as you do, as well as to express how hearing an important text read honestly brings so much light to the experience. Thank you, Navi K.

[@scotty]

excellent