The Mainly Mozart Festival closed its 22nd season Sunday afternoon with a remarkably ambitious presentation that combined a medieval classic of world literature with a large work of Romanticism, and along the way featured a children’s chorus and a brand-new ballet. For sheer guts and imagination, the festival’s mounting of Franz Liszt’s Dante Symphony in a two-piano … [Read more...]
Dante, Liszt anchor multimedia finale for Mainly Mozart Festival
For the Romantics, the medieval Italian writer Dante Alighieri loomed large, nowhere more so than in his Divine Comedy. Manuscript copies of the first part of this vast three-part poem, Inferno, became available in 1314, or just over 700 years ago, and quickly attracted commentary and interest. By the time Franz Liszt began working on a symphonic interpretation of the poem in … [Read more...]