At Night, The Music Enhances The Mood.
In: New York Times, Jg. 158 (2009-06-18), Heft 54710, S. 1-1
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Among the early manifestations of genius, few rank higher than the overture Felix Mendelssohn wrote at 17 to ''A Midsummer Night's Dream.'' Listening to it again on Tuesday evening at New York City Ballet, where it introduces George Balanchine's two-act ballet version of Shakespeare's play, I heard how much Mendelssohn encapsulates in a few minutes: the magic sleep, the gossamer workings of fairyland and of dream, the thrill of ceremony, love's tenderness and confusions, the rude mechanicals, a man transformed into an ass, the arrival of the hunt, the disillusion of awakening, the rewards of reconciliation. Mendelssohn wrote other marvels at an even younger age, but in this overture he envisioned Shakespeare's great play in a way that has seemed definitive ever since; and he tapped that vein again 16 years later to rich effect when he wrote a number of items of incidental music for the play. Even if his music is seldom performed at productions of the play today (the British theater critic James Agate was disappointed if it was not), I know of nobody who, hearing it, feels that Mendelssohn misunderstood Shakespeare in any way. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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At Night, The Music Enhances The Mood.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | ALASTAIR, MACAULAY |
Zeitschrift: | New York Times, Jg. 158 (2009-06-18), Heft 54710, S. 1-1 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2009 |
Medientyp: | review |
ISSN: | 0362-4331 (print) |
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