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MUSIC AND ART INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE No. 4: The Scandinavian Connection To celebrate being in Scandinavian waters the art and music inspired by Hamlet will be examined. Finland’s greatest composer, Sibelius, was also inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Music – Sibelius’s “Storm” from Incidental Music for The Tempest. We have already heard some Sibelius this week… Read more »
- Posted on: July 28, 2016
- Featured in History, History features, Music, Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Also tagged Beethoven, Delacroix, Delacroix and Shakespeare, European History, Hamlet, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Modern history, Ophelia, Paintings of Ophelia, Sibelius
This tag: Shakespeare400
MUSIC AND ART INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE No. 3: Midsummer Dreams Some of Shakespeare’s fantasies especially Midsummer Night’s Dream but other supernatural phenomena such as ghosts as well. Music – Wedding March from Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Incidental Music. That music is so familiar that we often forget why it was written. Mendelssohn composed an Overture… Read more »
- Posted on: July 27, 2016
- Featured in History, History features, Music, Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Also tagged Ancient Greece, Britten, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Mendelssohn, Modern history, Opera, Purcell, Shakespeare's Fairies, Shakespeare's Ghosts, Shostakovich
This tag: Shakespeare400
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, 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, Tchaikovsky, Women Composers