enough "Romeo and Juliet"'s out there?

[acroyear]

So far, I've seen "music inspired by"'s from Prokofiev, Gounod, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Delius, and of course, Bernstein (West Side Story - hey, it's close enough...), plus the film soundtracks by Rota and Hooper, and an incidental score credited to American composer David Diamond.

so what gives?  i realize it's a great story (great enough for Shakespeare to have written it twice (Midsummer Night's Dream)), but why the musical fascination throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries?

sheesh...

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[wilhelmina-d.livejournal.com]

Ah, makes sense. :)