Friday Night is Music Night [10/06/2011]
- Synopsis
- Radio programme celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company with music written for Shakespearean adaptations in film, theatre, ballet and opera. Includes soliloquys performed by members of the RSC. The music ranges from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Verdi’s Macbeth, William Walton’s score for Henry V and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. There’s also music from Patrick Doyle’s score for the Kenneth Branagh film versions of Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate, Rodgers and Hart’s The Boys From Syracuse, West Side Story and the film SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.
Roderick Dunck conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra. - Series
- Friday Night is Music Night
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Transmission details
- 10 Jun 2011 at 20:00 (Channel: BBC Radio 2)
- Duration
- 120 mins
Credits
- Music
- Cole Porter; Felix Mendelssohn; Giuseppe Verdi; Leonard Bernstein; Patrick Doyle; Richard Rodgers; Sergei Prokofiev; William Walton
- Contributor
- Robert Dunck
Additional Details
- Theatre company
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Production type
- Other
- Plays
- Comedy of Errors, The; Henry V; Macbeth; Merry Wives of Windsor, The; Midsummer Night’s Dream, A; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard III; Romeo and Juliet; Taming of the Shrew, The
- Subjects
- Drama; Music
- Keywords
- Royal Shakespeare Company; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); musical adaptations
Notes
- Notes
- For a detailed list of the music played in this programme see http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011mqnm
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Archive
- Name
British Library Sound Archive
- listening@bl.uk
- Web
- http://www.bl.uk/nsa External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7412 7676
- Fax
- 020 7412 7441
- Address
- 96 Euston Road
London
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How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Friday Night is Music Night [10/06/2011]". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av73917 (Accessed 25 Nov 2024)