Overdue

Anthony Tommasini has written a very interesting article for today’s New York Times that’s inspired by “dueling” productions of Macbeth in New York City: Shakespeare’s at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Verdi’s at the Metropolitan Opera

 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/music/09macb.html?

Since I’m both a Verdian and a Trekkie (the Shakespeare stars Patrick Stewart, a.k.a. Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), I’m somewhat torn.  But Tommasini gets it right: Verdi’s three Shakespearean operas, Macbeth (1847/65), Otello (1887), and Falstaff (1893) make the most of the naturally “musical” elements in the plays, but they go one step further by providing a depth of characterization that can’t be achieved by mere words, even those of the greatest playwright of the English language.

Welcome to Overdue, my blog about music libraries and the people who love them.  Since I can’t think of anything wondrous and creative to write, I’ll just add a link to my podcasts (but please don’t ask me about the tubas):

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/musiclibrary/Podcasts/Podcasts.html