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Prom 36: Gemma New conducts Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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In the summer of 1826 Felix Mendelssohn stumbled upon a German translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream made by August Wilhelm Schlegel. Spellbound, the 17-year-old composer wrote an orchestral overture for the play and, another 17 years later, augmented it with yet more scene-setting music – the most enchanting and characterful he would write. Gemma New joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn’s musical retelling of Shakespeare’...
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1 dates (16 Aug - 16 Aug)
Aug
16
Fri
7:30 pm
Royal Albert Hall
London, United Kingdom
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