Episode Detail: Brush Up Your Shakespeare - Evening at Pops
In “Brush Up Your Shakespeare,” guest host Claire Bloom and members of the troupe Shakespeare and Company act out scenes from plays while the Pops performs music inspired by the works. Composers include Tchaikovsky, Berlioz and Bernstein (“Romeo and Juliet”); Verdi (“Macbeth” and “Othello”); Mendelssohn (“A Midsummer Night's Dream”); and Patrick Doyle (“Much Ado About Nothing”).