Klarinet Archive - Posting 000441.txt from 2005/02

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Playing Shakespeare
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:48:01 -0500

Tony Pay wrote:

>(We (OAE) played Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with
Mendelssohn's
>music at Avery Fisher Hall on 24 February.)

One of my most memorable musical experiences was playing the
Sibelius music for Shakespeare's "The Tempest." It is such a
complicated play, hard to fathom. Yet sitting on the stage
behind a scrim which separated us from the actors, we played that
wonderful music. It was pure pleasure.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

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