All The World’s A Stage

• Rossini’s opera is a fine work – but the rip-roaring overture is where the action is. Sheer fun!
• Haydn’s No. 60 makes use of music he wrote for a play, Le Distrait, by Jean-François Regnard
• In 2013, at the age of 30, Caroline Shaw won the Pulitzer Prize for music.
  Entr’acte (a minuet & trio) was inspired by Haydn
• Written for an adaptation of a commedia dell’arte libretto, Stravinsky later described writing the Pulcinella Suite as the epiphany through which the whole of his later work became possible

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