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Tag Archives: Shakespeare
Adès contra Parsifal
Ever notice that conversations can reinforce and honour contrary positions? When you sit down with someone over latkes, beers or (name your pleasure), the celebration and enactment of community & indeed, communion, makes the points where you diverge immaterial. You … Continue reading
Posted in Personal ruminations
Tagged Boito, Hoiby, Mark Shulgasser, Otello, Othello, Parsifal, Shakespeare, Tempest, Thomas Adès, Tom Service, Verdi, Wagner
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A remembered tune: Les Troyens
Melodies are time-machines. I can hear a song and instantly I go back in time. Composers know this. It’s why films often employ compositions we’ve heard before to invoke a whole set of meanings. In Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis accomplishes … Continue reading
Posted in Personal ruminations
Tagged Aeneid, Berlioz, Forrest Gump, Les Troyens, memory, opera, Shakespeare, Vergil, Wagner
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Adès, Oakes, Lepage
Watching and hearing the Metropolitan Opera high definition broadcast of The Tempest, I wonder “whose” Tempest to call it. If you listen to Joseph Kerman—who says the composer is the dramatist–you’d say it belongs to Thomas Adès: the composer A … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Alan Oke, Meredith Oakes, Robert Lepage, Shakespeare, Simon Keenlyside, Tempest, Thomas Adès, William Burden
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Reinhardt’s first and last film
The 1935 Warner Brothers A Midsummernight’s Dream (AMSD) directed by Max Reinhardt, is one of my favourite films. This week I will once again get the pleasure of including it in my film music course. If wishes were horses beggars … Continue reading
