Shakespeare Celebration Reaches a High Note with Viva Concert

Derby Evening Telegraph › April 18, 2009

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Summary

Derby Live's Shakes in the City Shakespeare festival reaches its climax (on the day before the great man's birthday) with one of the best-known pieces of music ever prompted by his plays.

Or, at least, some of it is well-known.

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Shakespeare Celebration Reaches a High Note with Viva Concert

Mendelssohn wrote his Midsummer Night's Dream Overture after, as his sister Fanny once remarked, the two of t...

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