This tag: Berlioz
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 American composers, English Composer, European History, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Purcell, Shakespeare400, Women Composers
This tag: Berlioz
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 American composers, 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
This tag: Berlioz
This is the first of six postings for lectures from the Cruise on the SAGA Pearl II to the Gulf of Bothnia. MUSIC AND ART INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE This series of Six Talks was devised to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016. They were commissioned for a cruise to the Gulf of… Read more »
- Posted on: July 7, 2016
- Featured in History, History features, Music, Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Also tagged Art History, British Kings and Queens, David Garrick, English Composer, Henry Fuseli, London History, Macbeth, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Modern history, Richard III, Saga Cruise to Bothnia, Seven Ages of Man, Shakespeare400, Theatre History, Thomas Morley, Tudor History, Vaughan Williams, William Blake, Women's history