Music listings Nov 19, 2009
Also on the program will be works by Mendelssohn and Mozart. 3 p.m. Nov. 22. (Boston Globe)
Symphony kicks off season Sunday Nov 10, 2009
In honor of the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn s birth, the orchestra performs his Scottish Symphony, with its sweeping emotional scope and lively Scottish folk elements, in the evening s finale. Margery Goldstein will deliver a pre-concert lecture an hour before the concert begins. (Hudson Sun, MA)
‘Rob Kapilow’s What Makes It Great?’ at the New England Conservatory Nov 7, 2009
Tonight s program examines Mendelssohn s Octet in E-flat major with help from the Borromeo and Ariel string quartets. The Borromeo is a longstanding quartet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory; the Ariel is a young Israeli-formed quartet that moved to the United States in 2004 to continue their professional studies at the conservatory. (Boston Globe)
Musica Sacra and Chorus pro Musica open their seasons Sunday Nov 6, 2009
Burleigh will be dividing her time between Chorus pro Musica and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, an independent chorus that she prepares for performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. She says the choral groups form a perfect complement. (Boston Globe)
SIRIUS XM Radio's Symphony Hall to Broadcast Special Classical Music Performance From the White House Nov 5, 2009
SIRIUS XM listeners will enjoy the music of Isaac Albeniz, Agustin Barrios Mangore, Johann Sebastian Bach, Zoltan Kodaly, Maurice Ravel, Niccolo Paganini and Felix Mendelssohn. Earlier on November 4, Mrs. Obama will introduce a Classical Music Workshop with the featured musicians. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The Shakespeare of Music Nov 4, 2009
Berlin musician Carl Friedrich Zelter, the teacher of Mendelssohn, flatly assured Goethe, Some say he is a lunatic. By the time Beethoven reached his mid-40s, he could scarcely even hear others screams, much less their efforts at ordinary speech with him. (The American Conservative)
Halloween Treat from Classical Musi... Oct 31, 2009
Felix Mendelssohn: First Walpurgis Night (Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op ... Mendelssohn composed this cantata during his travels in Italy in 1831, and performed in Leipzig, February 2, 1843. (Suite101.com)
A new addition to an old quartet Oct 23, 2009
Eanet -- who had been a member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet before going to the Met -- was unavailable for an interview this week, but in an e-mail responded to a question about joining the Juilliard String Quartet: As great as working at the Met is - and I ve experienced some incredible moments over the last 10 years - the main job of a concertmaster is not about diving into the music. You re there to help the conductor communicate with the orchestra, and to help the orchestra communicate... (Boston Globe)
Community Bulletin Board: Oct. 22 Oct 22, 2009
Boston Conservatory Honors Trio will perform at 3 p.m., in the Wakelin Room at Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington St. The program will include works by Mendelssohn, Bach, Chopin and Schoenfield. The event is free. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Playing the White House: music on a higher scale Oct 20, 2009
The hour-long concert was serious, featuring works by Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, and Francois Couperin, and closed with a powerful encore. "You might know this song," Casals said, almost weeping. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
New concert hall in Atherton Oct 6, 2009
On Dec. 13, the Alexander String Quartet marks its 20th year as composer-in-residence, followed Feb. 7 by an appearance by the Afiara String Quartet playing Mozart, Berg and Mendelssohn. The New Century Saxophone Quartet performs March 14, and the season concludes April 11 with the Brasil Guitar Duo and soprano Sarah Wolfson. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Boston Singers’ Relief Fund concert Oct 2, 2009
More than 50 Boston singers will deliver noteworthy performances of Mendelssohn, Puccini, Strauss, and more, representing Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, Opera Boston, the Handel and Haydn Society, and other organizations. The choral clan will follow the baton of conductor Murray Kidd, accompanied by pianist Timothy Steele and organist Fred MacArthur. (Boston Globe)
Classical music events this fall Sep 13, 2009
BOSTON CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA Steven Lipsitt leads music by Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Beethoven. Sept. 26-27. (Boston Globe)
Events on the Westobou calendar Sep 13, 2009
MENDELSSOHN AND BRAHMS: Noon, St. John United Methodist Church, 736 Greene St.; free; (706) 860-2109 ... TRIO AUGUSTA PLAYS MENDELSSOHN AND JOHN WILLIAMS: Noon, Grover C. Maxwell Performing Arts Theatre, Augusta State University; $5; ASU students, faculty and staff free with JagCard; (706) 667-4100 ... MOZART AND MENDELSSOHN: Noon, St. John United Methodist Church, 736 Greene St.; free. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Westobou festival Sep 6, 2009
MENDELSSOHN AND BRAHMS: Noon, St. John United Methodist Church, 736 Greene St.; free; (706) 860-2109 ... TRIO AUGUSTA PLAYS MENDELSSOHN AND JOHN WILLIAMS: Noon, Grover C. Maxwell Performing Arts Theatre, Augusta State University; $5; Augusta State students, faculty and staff free with JagCard; (706) 667-4100 ... MOZART AND MENDELSSOHN: Noon, St. John United Methodist Church, 736 Greene St.; free. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Boston Landmark Orchestra’s free concert on the Hatch Shell Sep 1, 2009
Honor the earth and the arts tonight at Boston Landmark Orchestra s Green Masterpiece, an eco-friendly, carbon-neutral concert featuring nature-inspired music by composers including Mendelssohn, Handel, and Mozart. There will also be a performance of Thomas Oboe Lee s composition The Story of Frederick Law Olmsted, commissioned by the orchestra and based on the life of the renowned landscape architect. (Boston Globe)
Sydney choirs spread their wings Aug 31, 2009
Music inspired by the writings of William Shakespeare, including works from Mendelssohn, Walton and Verdi, will be accompanied by scenes from classic Shakespeare films. I've come up with a wish list for the film clips, so let's see what we can come up with,'' Weymark says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Taking Liberties Aug 24, 2009
Joshua Bell has created a moody cadenza for the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Keywords. (New Yorker)
Music: the week ahead Aug 20, 2009
Saturday it s all Mendelssohn, with the Italian Symphony, the Hebrides Overture and the Violin Concerto with Gil Shaham. On Sunday Michael Tilson Thomas steps in to lead the traditional season-closing rendition of Beethoven s Ninth Symphony. (Boston Globe)
Music from Angel Fire's annualclassical repertoire ready to return Aug 18, 2009
This year's Music from Angel Fire concert in Raton is titled, "Mendelssohn and His Idol," a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. The Tuesday, Aug. 25, concert includes works of J.S. Bach, the Baroque composer who inspired Mendelssohn for much of his life ... It was Mendelssohn who was responsible for the revival of Bach's music and who brought one of the greatest works of Bach, the St. Matthew Passion, back to life after more than 70 years in obscurity. (Raton Range, AL)
Real patriots support art Aug 2, 2009
The program includes music by Grieg, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Dukas. Tammy Vollom-Matturro will conduct. (Anchorage Daily News)
Opera served a la carte at the Chatham House Aug 1, 2009
Dahlin got his idea for Opera a la Carte from a restaurant in Seattle where the owners and singers provided guests with the soaring sounds of Puccini, Verdi, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Delibes and Gershwin. Members include soprano Amanda Boyd, mezzo-soprano Barbara Eckhaus, tenor Jon Morrell and Dahlin. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Skaneateles Festival to celebrate 30 years Jul 21, 2009
Weekly themes will include a celebration of Felix Mendelssohn's 200th birthday, a week dedicated to New York and a musical retrospect of the festival's 30-year history ... will commemorate composer Felix Mendelssohn's birth in 1809 ... Other Week Two concerts will include pieces by Mendelssohn and his contemporaries, such as Bach, Handel and Mozart. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Symphony enticing video gamers Jul 7, 2009
The role player delivering new audiences to classical music and bridging the gap between gamers and the uninitiated is "Video Games Live," a hybrid presentation that combines a live hometown orchestra (here, the Pittsburgh Symphony with the Mendelssohn Choir), video-game images on a giant screen, synchronized lighting and effects and audience interaction. For the first time, Pittsburgh audiences attending the Heinz Hall shows this weekend will join more than 500,000 people who have already seen... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Show your true colors on July 4 Jul 4, 2009
Chief Musician Joel Flunker will play a collection of songs in A Tribute to Bix Beiderbecke and musicians 1st Class Christopher Howard and Kelly Hurrell play Concertpiece No. 1 for two clarinets by Felix Mendelssohn. Other highlights of the afternoon include Jean Sibelius s lush Finlandia and an arrangement of Richard Strauss s best-known waltzes from the comic opera Der Rosenkavalier. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Zurich starts summer on a high note Jun 21, 2009
The Tonhalle Orchestra and invited guests will be honouring German composer and Switzerland fan Felix Mendelssohn in the 200th anniversary year of his death ... Mendelssohn is a major theme ... There will also be a Mendelssohn symposium on June 19-20. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Chintimini musicians get tuned up for annual festival Jun 19, 2009
This year s festival also coincides with the 200th birthday of German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) ... COMPOSERS: Bach Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Vitali and a world premiere by Obo Addy ... Special soiree with Mendelssohn Trio on June 21 for donors of 120 or more. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Classical music picks Jun 5, 2009
The stalwart local ensemble offers a pair of recitals, with the first, on June 6, featuring works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Faure, and the second, on June 13, celebrating the 80th birthday of the widely admired composer Yehudi Wyner. At 8 p.m., $15-$25, Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, 781-736-3400 or. (Boston Globe)
New York Philharmonic leaders visit Hanoi Jun 4, 2009
The repertoire for the orchestra's Asian Horizons tour will include works by Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Mozart. - AP. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Rumpelstiltskin goes to the opera May 29, 2009
Mendelssohn in Braintree Tomorrow night's concert by the Braintree Choral Society's celebrates milestones: the 85th season of the chorus and the 50th of Scituate's Choral Art Society, which also performs. And there is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47), whose monumental oratorio "St. Paul" is the sole work on the concert, which takes place at the recently opened Thayer Academy Center for the Arts. (Boston Globe)
Songs My Mother Taught Me CD Notes May 9, 2009
Auf flugeln des Gesanges, Felix Mendelssohn. 3. (Suite101.com)
Horn concerto by the late Curtiss Blake premieres May 3, 2009
Speaking of Maestro Li, daughter Christine Harada-Li, winner of the Anchorage Youth Symphony Concerto Competition, performed the first movement of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the AYS on Tuesday ... The Mendelssohn started off that way too. (Anchorage Daily News)
City Beat (65) Apr 28, 2009
Jahja Ling, music director of the San Diego Symphony, conducts The Cleveland Orchestra in a program featuring Mendelssohn s Symphony No. 3 at Severance Hall through Sat. May 2, at 8 and Sun. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
BSO announces new season of programs Apr 17, 2009
In April of next year Levine leads the BSO, vocal soloists Christine Brewer and Stephanie Blythe, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Mendelssohn's "Elijah." In the weeks before and after the Mendelssohn, he will lead premieres of Lieberson's "Farewell Songs" with bass-baritone Gerald Finley, and Harbison's Double Concerto, with violinist Mira Wang and cellist Jan Vogler. The latter program will also include Mahler's Seventh Symphony. (Boston Globe)
Today's Best Bets Apr 4, 2009
The program will include selections from F. Mendelssohn, H. Hanson, R. Vaughan Williams and C. Saint-Sa ns. Complimentary tickets (limit four per patron) are available for pick-up while supplies last at the Classic Center box office, (706) 357-4444. (Athens Banner-Herald)
PSO does Rachmaninoff proud Apr 4, 2009
In between, the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and baritone Vasily Ladyuk offered another lesser known work, Rachmaninoff's "Spring Cantata." Ladyuk didn't always project enough in the harrowing tale of a husband's near murder of his unfaithful wife, but his rich, dark timbre fit the cantata well and the choir, Russian diction aside, was an able companion. The program repeats at 8 tonight and 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Classic case of a rebellious son making good Mar 28, 2009
He is one of its Open Academy Rising Stars, a group of young virtuosos, and will play pieces from Songs Without Words by Mendelssohn and other compositions. He has played with orchestras in China and received many performance awards. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Florida Southern Choral Ensembles to Perform Mar 18, 2009
Choral director Dr. Carol Krueger will conduct works by Hildegard von Bingen, Palestrina, Janequin, Charpentier, Jacob Handl, Mozart, Rheinberger, Mendelssohn, and Brahms, as well contemporary composers, Joshua Shank and Greg Jasperse. The concert also will feature four famous opera choruses: O Belle Nuit from Offenbach s Tales of Hoffman, Habanera from Bizet s Carmen, Call of the Flowers from Delibes s Lakm;, and Libiamo ne lieti calici from Verdi s La Traviata. (The Fort Meade Leader, FL)
Two musical anniversaries Mar 14, 2009
Felix Mendelssohn whipped up an opera as a 25th anniversary gift to his parents. In 1829, the composer presented his folks with "Son and Stranger," an opera with music that "hints at "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that he would compose a dozen years later," according to conductor Steven Karidoyanes. (Boston Globe)
Roxbury Latin opens up a world of classical music Mar 12, 2009
The quartet played selections from Franz Josef Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn and Marice Ravel. Sydney Balise of Roslindale and Kathy Robinson of West Roxbury read about the event in the newspaper, and visited the school for the first time to attend. (West Roxbury Transcript, MA)
LSO REVIEW: Concert filled with stars Mar 7, 2009
Aria Stiles, the 15-year-old instrumental winner, was flashy and emotional playing the third movement of Mendelssohn s violin concerto. Both winners were rewarded with standing ovations. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Turn of the wheel Mar 5, 2009
Erie Philharmonic Orchestra will present music by Mendelssohn and Orff on Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Warner Theatre, 811 State St. Ticket prices range from $16-$48 and are available at 455-1375 ... On the surface, the two pieces on Saturday's Erie Philharmonic program, the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto and Carl Orff's cantata "Carmina Burana," couldn't be more different ... The Mendelssohn is a lithe and charming 25 minutes of graceful melody, while the Orff sets the often-ribald songs of dissolute... (Erie Times-News, PA)
Complete S.F. Symphony 2009-10 schedule Mar 4, 2009
Jarell): Three Etudes; George Benjamin: Dance Figures; Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, "Scottish." ... Mozart: Symphony No. 35, "Haffner"; Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1; Mozart: Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Concert features guest conductor, rising stars Mar 1, 2009
will play the third movement of Mendelssohn s violin concerto ... Stiles said the Mendelssohn concerto is one of her favorite violin concertos, and she has played it at recitals and competitions. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
A theatrical delight on a warm summer night Feb 27, 2009
If concert hall listeners relate Mendelssohn's music to A Midsummer Night's Dream to Shakespeare's play at all, they tend to hear it as a piece of program music, retelling the story rather than intensifying it ... Mendelssohn, coming from a symphonic tradition, demands peroration and recapitulation, and wedding march and fairy music, song and chorus, flit by in a glittering coda behind Oberon and Puck's great valedictions ... In a gesture dear to 19th-century composers, Mendelssohn ends with the... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Entertainment Briefing Feb 19, 2009
The program will feature works by Wang An-Ming, Jennifer Higdon, Vitezslava Kapralova, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Persis Vehar. The program will feature six student performers: Maggie Boland, Rachel Grippen and Mallory Marlatt, sopranos; Lindsey Johnson and Kara Morrissey, mezzo-sopranos; and Zachary Owen, baritone. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Weekend Highlights Feb 19, 2009
Winona Symphony Orchestra, featuring Prokofiev s Peter and the Wolf, Mozart s Symphony No. 41 and Mendelssohn s Ruy Blas Overture, 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Winona State University Performing Arts Center, Winona, 15, (507) 452-2712. KARAOKE. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Portsmouth area community calendar Feb 17, 2009
n Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Hill conducting: Mendelssohn Bi-Centennial (with a nod to St. Patrick) Andrew Sords, violin, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E-minor, Stanford Irish Rhapsody #1, Elgar Enigma Variations, at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 15 (pre-performance lecture at 2 p.m.) at The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth. Tickets $12-18 available at 436-2400 or at TheMusicHall. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
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Features the music of Mendelssohn and the choreography of Peter Anastos. Tickets are 20 to 50, at 426-1110 or. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Quartet performs Valentine's Day concert at Central Feb 10, 2009
The program includes audience favorites such as Mozart s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Puccini s O mio babbino caro and Pachelbel s enduring Canon in D. advertisement For the classical music aficionado, the quartet will perform selections from string quartets by Mendelssohn, Dvorak and Brahms, according to a press release. More popular tastes will be treated to a passionate tango by Piazolla and an arrangement of the jazz standard Stolen Moments. (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
This season's sizzle: Lang Lang, Nézet-Séguin, Golijov Feb 8, 2009
Soloists next year include pianists Evgeny Kissin and Ingrid Fliter (both playing Chopin), Yundi Li (Chopin, with Nezet-Seguin), Anton Kuerti (Mendelssohn) and Lars Vogt (Grieg); violinists Itzhak Perlman (also playing Mendelssohn, in the composer's bicentenary year), Leila Josefowicz (Thomas Ad. s) and James Ehnes (Prokofiev); and singers Barbara Hannigan (Gerald Barry) and Measha Brueggergosman (Ravel). (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
200 years later - and still a star Feb 8, 2009
You could say that Felix Mendelssohn lived just long enough to make himself misunderstood ... A focal point for Mendelssohn celebrations is Berlin, where the composer was buried ... Today, the Berlin Philharmonic plays a commemorative concert that includes Mendelssohn's Octet a masterpiece written when the composer was just 16 years old. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
