Performance

Mansfield Park

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Patricia Rozema’s *Mansfield Park* (1999) reframes Jane Austen’s novel as a period romance with sharper social edges, folding in Austen’s own literary presence and a pointed awareness of Britain’s ties to slavery and Caribbean plantations. The score, heard at Town Hall with The Sinfonietta and an all‑female orchestra, sits in the classical tradition while accommodating a few modern turns in orchestration. It matters because the film treats polite manners as a cover for economic power. I’m not aware of a definitive NYC premiere history for the score itself, but its inclusion in this Austen anniversary program signals its place in the city’s ongoing film‑music concert repertory.