Nederlands Blazers Ensemble en The Ashton Brothers

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s happiest comedies. Three centuries later Mendelssohn composed exquisite music for the play. The tale and the music are the foundation for this new spectacle by the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble. To help them they have called in The Ashton Brothers. Musicians and actors bring all the sweet idiocy of the play to life through theatre, mime, acrobatics, and music, of course. A must for those who love musical total theatre. .
 
This concert is part of the wind series: Blazers! Wind players give music its colour. Their endless variations in sound and timbre turn music into a real experience. They absolutely belong in the Hague Classics series: Haagse Klassieken. In their own series two wind ensembles put their instruments through their paces in music of all times and for all tastes. The Nederlands Blazers Ensemble presents a subdued programme with Dvorak taking the lead and a clown-like programme on the theme of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Then comes Calefax. Five reed players in a warm-blooded programme of Spanish style music.