Edible Landscaping in the Desert Southwest

The concert overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage and The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) conceived by Mendelssohn before the age of twenty have ranked among the most enduring of the nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire. R. Larry Todd offers a historical stylistic and analytical guide to these three remarkable works. His clearly structured and accessible text is supported by a wealth of primary documents including Mendelssohn's correspondence memoirs of his friends and nineteenth-century critical reviews.