A Midsummer Night's Dream
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight.
The Pacific Northwest Ballet, choreography by George Balanchine:
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Years ago, in college, I knew this score by heart, I listened to it so often. Still have the album, George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra, and hope you don't mind if I share this from the liner notes:"Mendelssohn's score...is one of the miracles of music, an achievement of gossamer lightness, fantasy, wit and exquisite romantic feeling that in every way matches the beauty of the Shakespearean comedy that inspired it. That the Overture is the work of a seventeen-year-old boy makes it all the more amazing an accomplishment."
Bless you for the memories this evokes and the joy it brings to my soul.
