SHAKESPEARE AND MUSIC August 25, 2008
Posted by thenaturalist in Interesting.add a comment
In reviewing a musical event involving Shakespearean themes, Alex Ross of the New Yorker says, “When composers have tried to set Shakespeare [to music], they have run up against the problem that his verse creates music in the mind, next to which even the most inspired efforts may be found wanting.” Maybe that’s why I can still hear the rhythms if not the exact words of the famous Shakespearean passages I had to memorize a long time ago.
