We're so used these days to theatre music as aural torture " blasts of pop music on the tannoy, assorted electronics or, if you're (moderately) lucky, a snatch of too-loud Chopin or Grieg before the lights come up on the Ibsen drawing-room " that it's easy to forget a time when plays were introduced, interrupted and even accompanied by a pit orchestra playing music specially composed by the greatest composers of the …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:50AM on July 17, 2015