Moonlight Music

Two of William Shakespeare's most famous lyrics are fused together in Moonlight Music, taking one on a seductive journey only music could usher. An introduction to Lorenzo's moonlit bank of The Merchant of Venice opens the piece. The sounds of music creep while moonlight sleeps and the soft stillness of night becomes the touches of sweet harmony. Ferdinand's dreamy ode to music from "The Tempest" overtakes the first scene. Also sitting on a bank, after following music's alluring strains over the water, he is filled with a fear that it has stopped, leaving him alone and in silence. In a famous sigh of relief, he cries, “No, it begins again”, after which Lorenzo returns on the bank filled with moonlight, allowing the music to once again creep into his ears. This piece should be filled with a wide range of colors, exploring the whole palette with these musical lines.