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Interchange – Prospero’s Roaring War: The Rough Magic of Shakespeare’s Tempest

We open with the first movement of Beethoven’s “Tempest,” or Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, composed in 1802, performed here by Glen Gould on March 19, 1967 on the television program “Music For a Sunday Afternoon.” We read ourselves in Shakespeare’s Tempest – not only can we chart our sociological course by surveying productions of the play, but …

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