Author: SCI Members Mailing List
Subject: YouTube: Orchestrated scenes from Freund's Romeo and Juliet
From Don Freund dfreund at indiana.edu<mailto:dfreund at indiana.edu>
Last month IU’s New Music Ensemble presented a concert including my orchestrated version of the “Ballroom” and “Balcony” scenes from my Romeo and Juliet: a Shakespearian Music Drama. This is a prototype of what may become a fully orchestrated version of the complete drama, which has thus far been produced as a work for singing actors and piano. Our NME (conducted by David Dzubay) played brilliantly, and the “singing actors" really made the theatre element work along with their tremendous voices! [...]
Subject: YouTube: Orchestrated scenes from Freund's Romeo and Juliet
From Don Freund dfreund at indiana.edu<mailto:dfreund at indiana.edu>
Last month IU’s New Music Ensemble presented a concert including my orchestrated version of the “Ballroom” and “Balcony” scenes from my Romeo and Juliet: a Shakespearian Music Drama. This is a prototype of what may become a fully orchestrated version of the complete drama, which has thus far been produced as a work for singing actors and piano. Our NME (conducted by David Dzubay) played brilliantly, and the “singing actors" really made the theatre element work along with their tremendous voices! [...]