Performance

Mansfield Park

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Patricia Rozema’s 1999 *Mansfield Park* reframes Jane Austen’s novel as a period story with a sharper social ledger, threading questions of empire and plantation wealth into the romance. Its film score, heard at Town Hall in New York as part of Symphony & Sensibility, sits in the classical tradition while serving a modern adaptation’s brisk, unsettled tone. Featured here with The Sinfonietta and an all-female orchestra, it becomes a study in how orchestration can argue with the manners on screen. One clear point: the music helps tilt the tale from drawing-room comedy toward moral inquiry.