{"id":31877,"date":"2013-09-29T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T14:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=31877"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:27:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:27:59","slug":"bagby-brings-beowulf-to-um-halloween-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/bagby-brings-beowulf-to-um-halloween-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagby Brings Beowulf to UM Halloween Night"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OXFORD, Miss. — Famed performer Benjamin Bagby will bring Beowulf\u2019s epic battle with the monster Grendel to life on Halloween night in a free event at the University of Mississippi’s Nutt Auditorium.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bagby, who consistently gets rave reviews for his theatre work, brings \u201cBeowulf: The Epic in Performance\u201d to UM Thursday, Oct. 31 at 7:30 p.m.\u00a0The event is sponsored by the UM departments of English and Music. \u00a0Bagby performs the\u00a0Old English epic poem and does his own accompaniment with his Anglo-Saxon harp. He also plans to give an on-campus lecture about his work, which happens the day before he takes the stage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who attend Bagby\u2019s show will experience a rare theatrical treat at no cost, said Lindy Brady, UM assistant professor of English<\/a>. Brady and Julia Aubrey, UM associate professor and assistant chair of the Department of Music<\/a> and director of opera theatre, helped organize the performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“If people go to this concert, they are going to experience a once-in-a-lifetime event,\u201d Brady said. \u201cHe is the one person in the world who does what he does.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Bagby\u2019s performances of the show in iconic venues like Carnegie Hall, among others, have been well received. The New York Times called the show “much too rare an experience in theatre,” saying Bagby \u201ccomes as close to holding hundreds of people in a spell as ever a man has.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s a twist to the show. The performance features music, though original accompaniment to the piece\u00a0penned by an anonymous poet sometime between the eighth and 11th centuries\u00a0was lost. Bagby used medieval\u00a0music theory to reconstruct notes for his Anglo-Saxon harp he believes would have been similar to the original.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This is an individual who created the music, sings the text and accompanies himself on this one-of-a-kind harp that he researched and had built for this purpose,” Aubrey said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Though the Old English language of the original text could be intimidating to some, the performance will feature modern English supertitles. The full epic was lengthy, but Bagby\u2019s performance only lasts about an hour and 25 minutes. On stage, he handles just the first third of the piece, in which Beowulf battles the monster Grendel– a selection fitting for Halloween.<\/span><\/p>\n

Admission is free thanks to generous support from the UM Lecture Series, the departments of Music and English, UM Opera Theatre, the Medieval Studies Minor and the performer himself. Bagby comes to UM\u00a0as part of a joint effort between UM’s music and English departments and the University of Louisiana-Monroe. A fan of author William Faulkner, Bagby says he is particularly excited to visit Oxford.<\/span><\/p>\n

The day before he performs, Bagby will discuss his craft in a free lecture titled \u201cBeowulf and the Anglo-Saxon scop: A Visit to the Workshop of \u2018A Singer of Tales,\u201d which happens Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 4 p.m. at Nutt Auditorium.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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