This tag: American composers
MUSIC AND ART INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE No. 6 All’s Well That Ends A Summary of the earlier talks and some examples taken from Twentieth Century Music and Art including some Popular ones. Music – Fantasia on Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams. That work is misleadingly called the “Fantasia on Greensleeves” by Vaughan Williams despite not really… Read more »
- Posted on: August 2, 2016
- Featured in History, History features, Music, Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Also tagged English Composer, European History, French composers, Italian composers, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Shakespeare400
This tag: American composers
MUSIC AND ART INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE No. 5: All At Sea – [this talk was cancelled but I have included it so that anyone interested can see what art I was going to talk about. I have adjusted the music as I included some works in other talks]. Much of Shakespeare takes place when characters… Read more »
- Posted on: August 1, 2016
- Featured in History, History features, Music, Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Also tagged Berlioz, English Composer, European History, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Purcell, Shakespeare400, Women Composers
This tag: American composers
MUSIC AND ART INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE No. 2: Love’s Labours Some Music and Art inspired by Shakespeare’s great love stories, especially Romeo and Juliet but also Othello, Much Ado About Nothing and others. Opening Music – Opening of Act III of Prokofiev’s Ballet “Romeo and Juliet” That music is not the most conventional for a… Read more »
- Posted on: July 20, 2016
- Featured in History, History features, Music, Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Also tagged Berlioz, Coleridge-Taylor, Elgar, English Composer, French composers, Henry Fuseli, Italian composers, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Mendelssohn, Modern history, Opera, Pre-Raphaelites, Richard Dadd, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare400, Tchaikovsky, Women Composers