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Into Music

Mendelssohn's Overture And "Mid-Summer Night's

Dream"

WRITTEN AT THE AGE OF

SEVENTEEN

(BY JOSEPH O ŠULLIVAN)

When Shakespeare wrote Midsummer Night's Dream" there were many things (to paraphrase Halmlet) twixt Heaven and Earth not dreamed of in his craft. The motion picture screen was one of them.

Imusic to

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London Display

London. Nov. 30.

the The opening lecture of ancial lectures given in con- nection with the International Exhibition of Chinese Artwas held the meeting room of the Royal Society, Burlington House, yesterday by Bir Percival David. director, or the exhibition. The Crown Prince of Sweden presided over a crowded, gathering.

Sir William Llewellyn, president of the Royal Academy, Mr. Oscar Raphael, Professor J. G. Anderson. Mr. Leigh Ashton, and Dr. F. T. Chang were also present on the platform.

Sir Percival David, in his lec- Erich Wolfgang Korngold, fa- mous operatie composer who was ture on "The Chinese Exhibition." brought to Holywood by Warner sald that over 240 contributors bad Bros. to arrange and adapt the generously lens their highly prized

and the nim possessions,

the exhibits Mendelssohn production, has retained all the numbered over 3,000. The nucleus original music written for the of the collection was the magn Like mach of the tradition per-stage play, augmenting it with ex-disent contribution made by the taining to the life and works of cerpts from such other Mendes Chinese, National Government of the bard, the data concerning the sohn, works, as the Scotch Sym over 800 works of art. They were writing and first production of phony, the Italian Symphony, and selected from a vast assemblage of this fantasy are confeting. Some the Song Without Words.

Imperial Treasures from the For- wera ΣΟΥ authorities say it was written in

A faithful and elaborate trans-bidden City, which 1590 to celebrate the marriage of cription of the Shakespeare clas

stored in some 20,000 cases in Shanghai. Until the fall of the the Earl of Essex to the widow of assumes its place on the scree- Sir Philip Sidney. Another tradi-

as a true integer of the fantasy Manchu Dynasty they formed part tion is that it was not written un and spectacle, the choreographic of the property of the ruling Em- peror, and as such were stored in L 1598, to mark the Wedding_of

and mimetic art of the product'on the gift of Bouthampton to EZ-

the Winter Palace in Peking.

beth Vernon Still others Basert

They were seldom seen by anyone, that Shakespeare intended it "aa

never by foreigners; they were in The tribute to Queen Eliza

tact "lost to the world. Chinese Government, in the pur- beth. However, the best authen- ticated information places its arst

suit of their enlightened policy, production in Shakespeare's Globe

had taken the unprecedented step Theatre between the years 1593-

of sending over to England some

a

screen

POWER OF THE SCREEN Embodying, as it does, the ebol erit outpourings of the proline Mendelssohn, the sound through its unlimited scope, does for the music what the stage could never do. It holds up the magic mirror to tonal nature, materialis- THE OVERTURE

ing the fanciful visions that rae ed through the composer's- tma- centuries later Twi

another gination to find vent in musica: creative genius-a youthful cum-id oms. » poser in Leipzig-reading a Ger- man

1595

"

In considering

this function of translation of "A Midsum- mer Night's Dream" for the first sic in "The Midsummer Night's tine, conceived the idea of epito Dream." It is interesting to note mizing in an overture the e'fin

spirit of the play.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was only seventeen years old at the time, and if ever young genius was gifted with prophecy the composer who, was destined to give to the world, symphonile works, oratorios, and concertos for violin and plane that rank among the greatest in all mis-

sient › fiterature, Mendelsohn was that darling of the musical

gods.

that Max Reinhardt has been quoted as saying that Shakespear needs 'the screen to give complete expression to his fantasy. It is also significant when it le recalled that several years ago Reinhardt was reported

as expressing the opinion that the motion picture was not an art but merely a novel

y entertainment

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Posidonia was the farthest north

The International character of the display was apparent from the sources from which the exhibits had been derived. The King and Queen number of treasures from the Buck gham Palace and Windsor Castle collections. The Emperor However, the great director how of Japan had not only contributed ernfesses a newly found respect for most precious bronze vesse the motion picture media. The from the Imperial, collection but coming of sound to f'ms and the had also graciously assented When seventeen years after magic of the camera have con- the loan of two objects from the *composing the famous Overturs vinced him that the audible Imperial Household Museum at The Crown Prince of he was comin'ssioned by the screen has possibilities unattain-Tokyo. King to write the Incidental able on the stage. When sound Sweden had all along evinced a music for the entire play, the came, the screen jumped farther keen personal interest in the pro- various sections of the Overture in a few years than the stage was jest, and had given most valuable Arted Into the fantasy as able to crawl in centuries" la Rein- expert help and advice. though written after, Instead of | härdt's opinion: before, the incidental music. Composed in 1826, the Overture

Reinhardt and his associates had its first public performance in February, 1827, at Stettin, Ger- have produced ample, evidence to many. Mendelssohn himself con-support his dictum. They have ducting. It was not until Oct. 18. also demonstrated that when mu- 1843. that the complete scoresie is so reldsely woven into the of the "Dream" music was play- texture of the production as is of all the Greek colonies except ed at the Neue Palais. Potsdam. that of Mendelssohn's fluminat-Naples, and there was hitherto no and on Oct, 19,, 20 and 21 at the toguse in A Midsumme indication that Greeks had manu- King's theatre in Berlin... Night's Dream the audible screen factured locally works of Bit OF "A SUBJECT OF WONDER" la the one authentic medium. For this lifportance in is region so the Shakespeure classic is pure remote from the usual centres. a veracious chronicler of the

fantasy, and the power of music The rest temples of Pasatum day reported that the play was

to interpret the stuff that certainly show that there was for long "a subject of wonder to dreams are made or, has en much, activity Hereabouts later on the Berliners that "some dispuit-dowed with immortality the Ima- but this sculpture is clearly de- ed whether Tleek (the translator) ginings of two great treative ge- rived from a temple of greater or Shakespeare was the auther muses. but all acclaimed it the work of genius. Mendelssohn's music made a profound impression, and In the light of modern music, with its freedom fem and its d sonance, the opinion of the musc critics of that day is interesting.

Of the Overture, one authority reported: "It is asserted by one who has the best right to Judge, and is not prone to exaggeration, the tendency of the motion pic plants, and the whole design must

ture producers to vocalise their originally have been heavy paint musical productions at the exed so as to bring out the detail of pense of veracious musical dra-patr, race, nd clothes, which is matisation, and motivation will not rendered at an by the chisel. greet with loud paens of joy "A Painted metopes in terra-cotta off Midsummer Night's Dreaın”

as very similar style and of the same marking a new era in musical school and date have been toon

at Thermich, in bila, on the photoplays.

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that no one piece of music con- tains so many points as does this and they have none of them the air of experiment, but seem all to have been written with certainty of their success.””

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