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Proms 2024
16 Aug 2024, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2024 Prom 36: Gemma New conducts Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Prom 36
Prom 36: Gemma New conducts Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
19:30 Fri 16 Aug 2024 Royal Albert Hall
Gemma New joins the Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn’s musical retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, following Mozart’s heavenly Clarinet Concerto with Anthony McGill and Mel Bonis’s colourful ³§²¹±ô´Ç³¾Ã©
Gemma New joins the Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn’s musical retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, following Mozart’s heavenly Clarinet Concerto with Anthony McGill and Mel Bonis’s colourful ³§²¹±ô´Ç³¾Ã©

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In the summer of 1826 Felix Mendelssohn stumbled upon a German translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream made by August Wilhelm Schlegel. Spellbound, the 17-year-old composer wrote an orchestral overture for the play and, another 17 years later, augmented it with yet more scene-setting music – the most enchanting and characterful he would write. Gemma New joins the Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn’s musical retelling of Shakespeare’s story (see also Proms 24 & 68) – performed with readings from the play for dramatic context – after equally colourful musical storytelling from forgotten French late-Romantic composer Mel Bonis and the heavenly sounds of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.

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Image: Gemma New © Roy Cox