Classical Classroom

Classical Classroom, Episode 11: Mendelssohn, “love potion”, and Shakespeare with Catherine Lu


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Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Suite from Incidental Music! In this episode, Classical 91.7 announcer and producer, and Cheeto the cat's person, Catherine Lu chats with Dacia. Learn about scherzos, nerds, and Dacia's totally plausible theory about Puck's "love potion".

 

Audio production from Todd Hulslander, with a lot of help this time actually from Dacia Clay.

Music used in this episode includes:

– Mendelssohn: Incidental Music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Op. 61 (We used CBS/Sony 37760 with Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra, which is not available – we think – for MP3 download, but here is another recording which is perfectly lovely.)

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