From Mendelssohn's scherzo in A Midsummer Night's Dream to Grieg's Morning Mood from Peer Gynt, music composed for the theatre was never just 'incidental' News that the Royal Shakespeare Company is going through with cuts to its music department, shrinking one of the last bastions of theatre music composition, production and performance from a team of seven to just two, sounds the latest alarm for the place of live m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM on March 5, 2026