Midsummer matrimony
Mendelssohn – Wedding March, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, conclusion
WCFSO – February 2008
As red as …
Valentine’s day, rooted as it is in violence, invites a revisiting of the old Veronese feud.
Juliet: My only love, sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me
That I must love a loathèd enemy.
William Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene v [138-141]
Sergei Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet, Suite no. 2, the Montagues and the Capulets, opening
WCFSO – February 2008
Wedding marches
Last weekend in Cedar Falls the WCFSO hosted a marriage proposal in the front rows of the GBPAC Great Hall. Then we tuned up and kicked off our Shakespeare in Love program with Mendelssohn’s music for ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’
If you a] were at the concert, b] are also planning to get engaged and/or married to the strains of Mendelssohn, or c] just enjoy his music, listen to Robert Greenberg’s take at NPR music.
Disclosure: I am d] getting married this summer, but Felix is not invited.
The Bard
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