 In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mendelssohn's music for "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" was regularly used in theatrical productions.The same is not true of Sullivan's "The Tempest" music, although he later was commissioned to write incidental music for productions of other Shakespeare plays staged by Henry Irving and others.In his review of the 2008 recording by the Kansas City Symphony, Rob Barnett writes, "This music is smooth, full of lissom invention and generally in the style of Schumann and Mendelssohn ...