October Music Study: Music Inspired by Shakespeare

This week we’re listening to Mendelssohn’s incidental music for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.

There are many Shakespeare-inspired or Shakespeare-related music you can listen to if you don’t have this particular album. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, for instance, or Verdi’s Othello.

Suggested reading: Chapter 10 of Young People’s Concerts by Leonard Bernstein
Ah, Music! by Aliki

Mendelssohn and Shakespeare has been the topic at 4Real several times. Here’s a related thread you can peruse for more ideas.