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Music for Shakespeare

  • Acadiana Center for Arts 101 West Vermilion Street Lafayette, LA, 70501 United States (map)

Matthew Kraemer, conductor


MENDELSSOHN: Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

DIAMOND: Music from Romeo and Juliet

- Overture

- Balcony Scene

- Romeo and Friar Laurence

- Juliet and Her Nurse

- The Death of Romeo and Juliet


SHOSTAKOVICH: Incidental Music from Hamlet: Selections

  1. Introduction and Night Watch

2.  Funeral March

3.  Flourish and Dancing Music

4.  Desire

5.  Actor's Pantomime

8.  The Banquet

10. Cradle Song

11. Requiem 

12. March of Fortinbras


KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11

- Overture

- Maiden in the Bridal Chambers

- March of the Watch

- Garden Scene

- Hornpipe


DURATION: Approximately 100 minutes, including intermission.

*Tickets are available exclusively through the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra.

The drama and romance of theater abound in this program that includes an enchanting Shakespearean overture written by Felix Mendelssohn when he was only seventeen years old. We follow with music from modern American composer David Diamond and Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and the program closes with Erich Korngold’s cinematic music for Max Reinhardt’s 1920 production of Much Ado About Nothing.

Doors Open 6:00pm /// Concert at 7:00pm

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