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With the aid of Henry Purcell's rich-textured Fairy Queen score, Epstein underscores the conflicts in Shakespeare's text. His lovers are violent hotbloods; his fairies are insect-like nature sprites, inhuman and unsettling; his "rude mechanicals" quarrel with earnestness and acrobatic precision in their stage business. The curtain...
The ART Midsummer Night's Dream, though, is a durable enterprise. Changes in cast or location may alter its nuance but not its essence. Epstein's production strips the corroded encrustations of audience expectation from the familiar play, letting Shakespeare's poetry shine with its own unreflected light, magnified but...
Described by his longtime colleague Edward M. Purcell, Gade University Professor, as "a very great and very much loved friend," Van Vleck is best known for creating the modern theory of quantum magnetism based on quantum mechanics.
Purcell, who was a student of Van Vleck's in the 1930s at Harvard, said yesterday he was "extremely friendly--he treated us all as equals, when we were students and later."
The ART's interpretation of the Shakespeare play, directed by Alvin Epstein, replaced Mendelsohn's traditional, romantic music with a Henry Purcell score but retained all of Shakespeare's dialogue in what Brustein described as "an extraordinary combination of fidelity and originality."