| 单词 | Mendelssohn |
| 例句 | Neither Mendelssohn nor Schumann planned to take over the world with his art, though both suffered for it nonetheless. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But Mendelssohn had to struggle against both snobbery and bigotry. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Robert Schumann and his friend Felix Mendelssohn were German successors to Beethoven of a gentler mould. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Like the time she took me to see Colonel Blimp and sat there weeping all through the scene where the imprisoned German officers are listening to Mendelssohn. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Even the most intimate songs of Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn soften raw emotion with a poetic image - rejection being portrayed as an iced-up lake, or happiness as a bird singing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He was also an accomplished pianist, a devotee of Fats Waller, and capable of pulling off anything from swing tunes to Mendelssohn. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On Sunday, at a sell-out Wigmore Hall, its performance of Mendelssohn's Octet had me holding my breath for the entire 35 minutes' duration. Carmen; the Manson Ensemble; the Nash Ensemble – review 2012-11-25T00:05:46Z But the piece I'd nominate is the first movement of Mendelssohn's Octet. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z He said a key factor in Mendelssohn being widely accepted in the UK was largely down to its enduring choral tradition. Blue plaque remembers Mendelssohn 2013-02-04T16:59:00Z Mendelssohn, only four years older than Wagner, was baptized as an infant; still, Wagner held up his former idol’s ethnicity as a sign of artistic blight. Music Review: Jewish Themes, and Mendelssohn, at Bargemusic 2010-06-27T21:03:00Z For this program at Carnegie Hall, the ensemble performs quartets by Haydn, Schumann and Mendelssohn. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:06:12Z Onslow composed symphonies and operas, but it was his chamber music – put on a par with Mozart's by Mendelssohn and Schumann – with which he made his reputation. Onslow: String Quartets Nos 28, 29 & 30 2010-04-22T21:40:00Z War-battered Leipzig, nicknamed the "city of heroes" for its peaceful resistance as the GDR collapsed, famed as a musical crucible for Wagner, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt and others, was at last regaining its dignity. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z Alongside classic works from Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn and Beethoven, the season features works from 25 living composers, including five commissions, four world premieres and two U.S. premieres. Uncertainty around music director remains as Seattle Symphony announces 2022-23 season 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z A pleasant but cautiously played first half paired two sonatas — Debussy’s only one for violin, and Mendelssohn’s in F — that struggled to make an impact in the cavernous Fisher Hall. Music Review: In a Finale, Comfort Trumps Provocation 2011-06-06T22:06:28Z The Mendelssohn Piano Trio traversed all three of Schubert’s mature pieces for piano, violin, and cello at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday. Trio shows Schubert’s challenges 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z But for all the fairies and flower garlands and lovers chasing around, the most delightful part of the evening was the Mendelssohn score. At the Kennedy Center Opera House, music steals the show from the Pennsylvania Ballet The violin virtuoso, conductor and teacher returns to Seattle, joined by Seattle Symphony and guest conductor Julian Kuerti in a program of Smetana, Mendelssohn and Dvorák. The Week Ahead: Ozzy Osbourne, Itzhak Perlman, author Jamie Ford 2011-01-27T00:45:05Z Yet the buoyancy and clarity of early Mendelssohn remains, especially in the Mozartean grace of the first movement and the delicate wistfulness of the intermezzo that follows it. Mendelssohn: String Quintets Op 18 and Op 87 – review 2013-05-03T11:50:37Z Mendelssohn's iconic oratorio, beloved of UK audiences since its Birmingham premiere in 1846, fell from critical favour with the passing of the Victorian era. Prom 58: Mendelssohn's Elijah ? review 2011-08-29T10:24:31Z He goes sailing – Coast! – in the mist, accompanied by The Hebrides by Mendelssohn of course. Town with Nicholas Crane; Love and Death in City Hall – TV review 2013-05-22T06:00:16Z The choice of works on Saturday’s program, for which the orchestra — conducted by Manfred Honeck, the ensemble’s esteemed music director — was joined by the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, said it all. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn dominated its edifying programs in the city last year. Music Review: Takacs Quartet Plays Britten and Janacek at Zankel Hall 2012-04-15T18:18:42Z There are certainly connections between these two Romantics, and contrasts, too: Mendelssohn bright and impetuous, Brahms autumnal and internal. Season Finale at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The feeling was that Capuçon was somehow capturing the energy of Mendelssohn, that his tightrope was a high-tension wire. L.A. Phil and Semyon Bychkov achieve a musical summit with 'Alpine Symphony' 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z That these artists chose the tranquil, beguiling slow movement from this Mendelssohn work, which they played beautifully, brought a reflective moment to a gala evening. Review: Carnegie Hall Turns 125, With Brass and Other Fanfare 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The festival closes Jan. 26 with works by Beethoven, Debussy, Wolf and Mendelssohn. A Symphony presence in Seattle Chamber Music Society’s 2013 Winter Festival 2013-01-10T00:09:18Z Mendelssohn was one of the most precociously talented musicians in history, and his cultured, affluent parents knew it. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Review 2011-11-21T23:13:14Z Mendelssohn Hensel remains a prime musical example of the talented female creative artists who were never promoted in the way the men of their families were. Review: At Ballet Theater, a Tribute to an Overlooked Female Composer 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Audiences flocked enthusiastically to hear the latest symphony of Haydn, Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Shostakovich, but those days are apparently behind us. Review | Shift festival illustrates a clutch shortfall in today’s symphony culture 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Some of the “Songs Without Words” are given in Mendelssohn’s original piano setting, others in an arrangement by Friedrich Herrmann for piano and violin. Mark Morris’s ‘Words,’ a Premiere at Fall for Dance 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z In nine succinct movements, with titles like “Remote,” “Mysterious” and “Forceful,” this work weaves glancing — and distorted — references to piano trios by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and others into his own intricate, emotionally focused language. Review: Anne-Sophie Mutter Pays Tribute to Previn at Carnegie Hall 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z On Friday at the Austrian Embassy, the Minetti Quartet offered enjoyable if unremarkable renditions of works by Mozart, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn. The Minetti Quartet is enjoyable but not striking at Austrian Embassy 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z In the process, he desecrated Mendelssohn and Beethoven, but at least those composers are dead. Dance Review: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2012-10-17T22:14:48Z There’s the Mendelssohn music that Balanchine chose, abuzz with summer sounds and the confusions and harmonies of love. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ Nodding Off With the Mortals 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z At the ceremony, the flower girl, one of the bride’s ballet students, danced up and down the aisle to Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” In Clark Kent Mode, He Was Still Super Appealing 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z At 19, as soloist with the Hallé, he gave an astonishing concert of three concertos in one evening, by Bach, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z It was impossible not to notice, during this piece, the idiosyncrasies of the Recital Hall's acoustics, which were also quite obvious during the blockbuster performance of the Mendelssohn Octet last Friday night. Review: Chamber-fest concert nourished body, mind and soul 2010-07-15T20:56:00Z It’s hard to say if the players captured what Mr. Boyles called “the sound of what Mendelssohn heard” — this is the ever-seductive illusion of period performance — but they put the piece across with energy. Music Review: Grand Harmonie at the Church of the Epiphany 2013-05-26T21:47:26Z Balanchine’s joyful and seasonally appropriate “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” set to Mendelssohn’s bewitching score, arrives on Tuesday. Dance Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Well, aided by Mendelssohn and Mr. Milone, Mr. Bell proceeded to do just that. Review: At Mostly Mozart, Joshua Bell Plays a Rejiggered Bach Novelty 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z “Anthracite Fields” was given its premiere by the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and was later included in the New York Philharmonic’s inaugural NY Phil Biennial festival. Pulitzer Winner for Music Found Inspiration in Pennsylvania Coal Mines 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn, who died six months later, channeled his grief into this turbulent quartet, whose character, according to the composer and pianist Ignaz Moscheles, seemed “consistent with his deeply disturbed frame of mind.” Music Review: Quatuor Ébène Plays Schumann and Errol Garner 2014-02-23T21:46:20Z The tempos for the Mendelssohn are more deliberate than those used for Balanchine’s two-act “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” but the rewards include a palpably greater sensitivity of phrasing and finesse of tone. Review: From Royal Ballet, a Blend of Enchantment and Intensity 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Across selections from Chausson, Debussy, Poulenc, Mendelssohn, Richard Strauss and Alban Berg, Piau conjured a rarefied emotional world, suffused with wistful longing and serene melancholy, and leavened by a sense of wry detachment. French soprano’s serene concert at UDC is the stuff of dreams 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Like Mendelssohn, Farrenc drew praise for working within the confines of older traditions. Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Ashton’s Puck and Bottom strike me as obviously finer, and his use of Mendelssohn’s Nocturne more poetic and musically acute, but he uses — as did Marius Petipa in Russia — a rearrangement of Mendelssohn’s music. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z Sandwiched between the two Russians, Mendelssohn served as a kind of palate cleanser. Review: One charismatic evening with Montero and Capu?on, performing Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff 2010-11-18T02:01:00Z In a recent program works by Mendelssohn and Bruch were smartly chosen to set up the premiere of an elegant trio by Pierre Jalbert. Emboldened Orchestras Embracing the New Music 2011-12-09T17:01:08Z Days before her performance, Song spoke of Mendelssohn and Bach as if they were uncles and credited Beethoven's "many musical varieties and different personalities. It's beautiful, melodic and kind of devastating sometimes." Students' arts dedication puts them in Spotlight at Disney Hall 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z The strongest playing came in the exceptionally challenging “Variations Sérieuses” of Mendelssohn, beginning with an introspective, eloquently phrased rendition of the tender theme. In Jeremy Denk’s Kennedy Center recital, the music has the most meaning when he talks about it 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Better still, they offered a set of striking interpretive insights into thrice-familiar works: They found the proto-Romantic fervor in Mozart, the Mendelssohnian lightness in Brahms, and the operatic exuberance and scope in Mendelssohn. Review | Old is new again in Stradivari Anniversary Concert at Library of Congress 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z In fact, he made himself essential with a crisp attention to sound and pulse in the Hearne, to eloquence and fun in the Mozart and to exuberance in Mendelssohn's symphony. L.A. Chamber Orchestra ending season on a sunny note 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The playing was mostly fine, except for a prominent wrong note somewhere in the violin section in the Beethoven and an early brass entrance in the Mendelssohn. BSO at Strathmore skips the uncommon music in season preview 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, in fact, uses those words to promote its fall festival, Dedications, inviting listeners to consider works dedicated by Mozart to Haydn and by Schumann to Mendelssohn. Chamber Music Society Festival Centers on Dedications 2011-10-30T03:15:06Z The evening’s music — Charles Barker, David LaMarche and Ormsby Wilkins shared the conducting duties — included superb pieces by Debussy, Delibes, Massenet, Mendelssohn, Offenbach and Prokofiev. American Ballet Theater Holds Its Spring Gala 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z His festival will look partly back to the chamber music he admired in his youth, including performances of pieces by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schoenberg, Bartok and Shostakovich. Music Review: Glass?s Players Warm Up for a Festival in August 2011-06-13T22:17:30Z With the first and last movements of the "Italian," Mendelssohn's Fourth Symphony, he produced sparks, not the atmospheric kind you might create by lighting a match but from cutting a wire and emitting a shock. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The suspense explodes into hysteria as two groups rush on to the strident sounds of Mendelssohn’s “War March of the Priests,” capturing a man and a woman and brutally forcing them to kiss. Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘On the Mountain’ in Paris 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z A Midsummer Night’s Dream Susanna Mälkki leads the LA Phil and guest vocalists in Mendelssohn’s musical take on Shakespeare’s fantasy tale, with actors performing scenes from the Bard’s play. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 29-Nov. 5: Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and more 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z But in the Mendelssohn and especially in Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A, that all dropped away: the playing was straightforward and beautiful. Music Review: At Mozart Festival, Dvorak and Others Shine 2011-08-08T21:55:50Z The Mendelssohn might have fared better if it hadn't been preceded in a double bill by a genuine masterpiece: Benjamin Britten's church parable, The Prodigal Son. The Homecoming/The Prodigal Son 2010-07-20T20:45:00Z The latest, a collaboration between the European Opera Centre and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, uses a new critical edition that represents Mendelssohn's final thoughts, though it doesn't solve its problems of narrative control. Die Hochzeit des?Camacho ? review 2011-04-13T18:01:01Z Conjured by Mendelssohn’s overture, it is hushed and gossamer, full of the magic that children know. 2010-01-08T03:48:00Z Gary Sheldon conducted; the score, Balanchine’s own collage of different Mendelssohn items, sounded marvelously iridescent, although the use of an assisted acoustic gave too much prominence to the women’s voices. Review: Balanchine and Shakespeare Catch Some Waves in Miami 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z The Mendelssohn Piano Trio plans to perform all of Beethoven’s piano trios during the next three years, a journey that began Sunday afternoon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Steinway Series. Mendelssohn Piano Trio Studies Beethoven at American Art Museum’s Steinway Series These fresh young voices, joined by the impressive lay clerks, make the purest sound in this Mendelssohn collection, though intonation is not always secure. Mendelssohn: Choral Music – review 2012-09-29T23:05:35Z A visit to Scotland inspired the opening theme of Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony, which concluded the evening. Music Review: On a Cold Night, Bending the Rules of Harmony 2010-12-14T06:15:15Z The finale was Mendelssohn's very early Piano Quartet No. 1, an ambitious but unevenly inspired teenage work that few music lovers would choose to accompany them to that proverbial desert island. Chamber-music evening full of great composers, lesser works 2012-07-13T19:53:00Z Chilingirian handpicks students to spend a week at Mendelssohn on Mull performing chamber music alongside him and his quartet colleagues – and to do so in his so-called "right way". Mendelssohn on Mull ? review 2011-07-08T17:25:42Z The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns to Alice Tully Hall on May 16 with a program of music by Mendelssohn and Brahms; chambermusicsociety.org. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Performs ‘Tales From the Nine Bells’ 2014-05-07T20:58:48Z Mendelssohn’s 200th followed in 2009, and 2010 brought a bumper crop of celebrations, with impresarios intertwining the bicentennials of Robert Schumann and Frederic Chopin with the 150th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s birth. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z This year, for the first time, Garsington teamed up with the Royal Shakespeare Company to stage ‘‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’’ with music by Felix Mendelssohn. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The second act contains a suite of dances, including an exquisite pas de deux for two unidentified characters, set to the limpid andante from Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 9. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, the dancers glowed all week, rising with spontaneity and color to Mendelssohn’s call. City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn’s inexperience comes through in the run-on structure of the piece, which lasts nearly 40 minutes. Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z Leipzig is no stranger to music; the likes of Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Wagner all called the city home. ‘New Berlin’ or Not, Leipzig Has New Life 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Tuesday night, Morlot did, at least, become sunshine, with bits of Mendelssohn's merry "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the composer's cheerful "Italian" Symphony framing Mozart's sublime Clarinet Concerto. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Eschenbach led a program of Mendelssohn and Beethoven on Thursday night, the German repertory that is among his specialties, and the audience reveled in it. Review | At NSO, familiarity breeds contentment 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Felix Mendelssohn was given credit for rescuing Bach from oblivion. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The claim that Schoeps, an heir of Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy, was the rightful owner was dismissed by a court in New York two years ago. Picasso owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber sets record pre-sale estimate 2010-03-17T18:31:00Z Mendelssohn and Bach also are on the program, as well as all of the etudes in Chopin’s Opus 10. Polish Canadian piano prodigy is poised to rack up frequent-flier miles 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z The music for “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” for instance, dates to 1840, when the German composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote the tune to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the printing press. A New Carol for an Old Christmas Tradition 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Tetzlaff set a brisk tempo in the first movement of the Mendelssohn. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T22:18:57Z The concert is set to begin with Israel's national anthem, "Hatikva," and will also feature music by composers banned by the Third Reich, including Gustav Mahler and Felix Mendelssohn. Israeli orchestra to play Wagner in Germany 2011-07-25T11:26:08Z Mendelssohn thought Liszt a wonderful interpreter of others’ music who lacked creativity in his own. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Mr and Mrs Mendelssohn were treated to a diverting cuckoo-in-the-nest tale about a mayor awaiting the return of a long-lost son, before two turn up at once. The Homecoming/The Prodigal Son 2010-07-20T20:45:00Z He sometimes appeared as soloist or recitalist, and among his solo records was an LP of the Mendelssohn sonatas. David Soyer obituary 2010-05-11T18:05:00Z Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor is a common rite of passage for violinists, and on Thursday it was the vehicle for Ray Chen’s Philharmonic debut. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The Mendelssohn piece, Bell told the crowd, was written when the composer was just 16. Joshua Bell’s Metro encore draws a crowd Mendelssohn composed his Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings as a teenager. Camerata RCO Joins the Pianist Weiyin Chen at SubCulture 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z The work begins by celebrating Martin Luther, through his use of Psalm 46 for his hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” and Mendelssohn, through his use of that hymn in his “Reformation” Symphony. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Mendelssohn was also a popular conductor who established precedents, still in use, for successful, seasonlong programming of orchestral performances. Seattle Symphony takes on Mendelssohn's ambitious 'Lobgesang' 2010-06-09T23:42:00Z Principal guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard conducted a program that included Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with soloist Pekka Kuusisto, as well as new work by Helen Grime and Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3. Review: At Seattle Symphony, a winning night from opener to encore 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn and Co., the bank his family established in 1795, was one of the five largest privately owned banks in Germany. Picasso portrait returned by National Gallery to heirs of Jewish banker persecuted by Nazis 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Here he offers Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony along with the overture to Victor Hugo’s play “Ruy Blas” and the concert overture “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.” Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Haydn, Steve Reich and More 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z "Wild Sweet Love" is a sort of dance jukebox, matching lively constellations of dancers to musical fare ranging from Mendelssohn to Queen. Review: Trey McIntyre Project is physical and precise; witty and intricate 2010-03-19T16:44:00Z Then, at 8:15 p.m., she called the four other players from the back of the room to tackle a Mendelssohn string quintet. Roman Totenberg’s stolen Stradivarius was once lost forever. Now, it plays again. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Wagner and Mendelssohn: the man who declared that Jews couldn't write worthwhile music, and a Jew who wrote it. Wagner and Mendelssohn make interesting bedfellows at Seattle Symphony 2010-06-18T18:33:00Z And on March 18, the season will end with Ms. Weilerstein’s performance of Schumann’s Cello Concerto and music by Mendelssohn, Webern and Schubert. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Announces Next Season 1458-11-12T05:00:00Z “By the standards of Mendelssohn, I was hardly a prodigy,” Mr. Rutter said, “but I’d made the transition from aspiring composer to functioning one.” The Composer Who Owns Christmas 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z He missed another concert on Monday night, when the Bostonians performed a work he had chosen — Mendelssohn’s demanding oratorio “Elijah” — at Carnegie Hall. Scrambling at the Met Before James Levine?s Surgery 2010-04-05T22:24:00Z The Gewandhaus Orchestra will play composers with ties to Boston, including Stravinsky, Copland, Carter and Bernstein, while the Boston Symphony will perform works by Leipzig-based masters like Bach, Schumann and Mendelssohn. Boston-Leipzig Exchange: Andris Nelsons’ Orchestras Collaborate 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z On Nov. 3 and 4, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who was recently appointed the next music director of the Metropolitan Opera, will lead concerts of music by Bartók, Mendelssohn and Beethoven. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z I understood Mendelssohn more readily than, say, Leonard Bernstein, who, teaching us sonata form on television, seemed human pretty much everywhere. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z It features that composer’s last symphony and his last piano concerto, and tacks on a Mendelssohn overture. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It's fitting that a man as industrious as German composer Felix Mendelssohn would write not one, but two pieces of music celebrating the anniversary of the printing press. Seattle Symphony takes on Mendelssohn's ambitious 'Lobgesang' 2010-06-09T23:42:00Z It was interesting to see the Old World lusciousness with which they approached Gade and Mendelssohn preserved, in pared-down fashion, in “Abgesänge,” an alluring collection of brittle but lyrical swan songs. Review: Danish Piano Trio Shares Well-Loved Sounds and Little-Known Gems 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z At the very same lesson, Gingold was helping me discover the Mendelssohn violin concerto, with which I also fell in love. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z The lesson Mendelssohn would one day learn from Bach is that of musical implication. Generous renditions of Mendelssohn and Bach balance youth and experience 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The quartet appeared determined to dispel the conventional view of Mendelssohn as a purveyor of genteel, well-mannered compositions with a robust reading of the String Quartet in E Minor, Op. Escher String Quartet takes an aggressive approach to chamber music 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z The lieder of Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn are all featured, but Schubert remains the star. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z And on Thursday, a meatier program includes Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank, and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Mendelssohn wrote the piano part to display what was by all reports his remarkable virtuosity. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Review 2011-11-21T23:13:14Z In a letter to his London publishers, Mendelssohn discounted the religious use of his melody, asserting "it will never do to sacred words". The music that makes Christmas 2010-12-16T23:30:00Z That is why the finale of her residency on Sunday at Avery Fisher Hall — a recital of Debussy, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Sarasate, with the nimble, subtle pianist Lambert Orkis — was such a letdown. Music Review: In a Finale, Comfort Trumps Provocation 2011-06-06T22:06:28Z Pasadena Symphony The orchestra under conductor David Lockington is joined by guest vocalists for a season opener that includes Mozart’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 3 and Elgar’s “Introduction & Allegro.” The week ahead in SoCal classical music, Oct. 14-21: Mariinsky Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale and more 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Bach, naturally, is the backbone of this festival, where the great Helmuth Rilling conducts Bach's B minor Mass, Verdi's Requiem and Mendelssohn's "Elijah." Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z But the musical presentation far surpassed the variable standards of Mendelssohn's original cast. The Homecoming/The Prodigal Son 2010-07-20T20:45:00Z Culver City Symphony Orchestra Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, “Italian,” plus piano concertos by Chopin and Mozart and more. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 29-Nov. 5: Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and more 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Every music textbook still recounts how Mendelssohn, merely 20 years old, triggered a 19th-century Bach revival with his historic performance of the “St. Matthew Passion” in Berlin in 1829. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z At the age of two, she refused to do more than 10 hours of maths homework a night and deliberately played wrong notes in the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Digested read: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua 2011-01-31T21:30:02Z Then it was back to Mendelssohn for the encore, the second movement of the D minor Trio, whose elegiac opening Mr. Ax performed beautifully. Music Review: Perlman, Ma and Ax in Live From Lincoln Center 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z It is originally from the Book of Kings in the Hebrew Bible, but I first came upon it in the oratorio “Elijah” by Mendelssohn, who figures in the historical part of the novel. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z A specialist in the music of Central European composers — notably Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Bruckner — he had built a respectable if not scintillating career amid the musical and political repressions of East Germany. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z He plays 15 pieces from the 48 miniatures Mendelssohn called “Songs Without Words,” published in eight volumes. Classical Playlist: Puccini, Mendelssohn, Wagner and More 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Similarly, Schumann’s Opus 41 String Quartets were explicitly dedicated “to his friend Mendelssohn.” Chamber Music Society Festival Centers on Dedications 2011-10-30T03:15:06Z Since then he has taken an unusually eclectic path, recording the concertos and sonatas of Mendelssohn, Grieg, Fauré and Walton on the one hand, while premiering works by cutting-edge contemporary composers on the other. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z His technique is impeccable in both works, with a sweet-toned and unsentimental approach to the Mendelssohn. Classical Playlist: Bach, Biber, Gottschalk and More 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Lack was still a teenager when she began embarking on worldwide tours, drawing praise for her intensity and warmth of tone in concertos and sonatas by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Haydn and others. Fredell Lack, Admired Violinist and Teacher, Dies at 95 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Premiered by a 150-member chorus, the Mendelssohn Club, in Philadelphia in 2014, "Anthracite Fields" was then a highlight of the New York Philharmonic's Biennial. West Coast premiere of 'Anthracite Fields' by L.A. Master Chorale mines the depths of American music 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z With the London Symphony, there is tender, precisely shaded Ravel, a survey of cultivated Mendelssohn, exquisite Debussy, fiery Prokofiev and touching Strauss. To the Conductor Claudio Abbado, the Orchestra Was a Collective 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The key lies in his childhood, and a family tree he is proud to share with Felix Mendelssohn and Karl Marx stretching back to a 16th-century Polish Talmudic scholar, Moses Isserles. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Eastern time, is a program featuring music by Mendelssohn and George Walker, as well as two pieces by William Grant Still, often called the “dean” of Black composers. 7 Things to Do on Labor Day Weekend 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z But if his fastidious lyricism endowed his Mozart and his Rossini with grace as well as drive, his ability to twist a score taut also gave his Mendelssohn, and even his Debussy, immense cumulative force. A Conductor’s Career, Cut Short, Still Blazes on Recordings 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Also on the bill: Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4. A&E highlights: Spring festivals, James Blake, fantasy exhibit at EMP 2013-04-17T21:26:00Z The festival’s resident orchestra, playing in Avery Fisher Hall, offered Weber, Mendelssohn and , the last in a nod to his 200th birthday this year. Music Review: Joshua Bell With Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:18:00Z But he also seems to want more from the composer than the surface splendor wherein the greatest wonder of Mendelssohn lies. Dudamel adds his dramatic touch to a night of Mendelssohn at Hollywood Bowl 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z I think Mendelssohn, too, a century later, was a composer who had an incredibly easy natural gift and wrote some very nice tunes. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z They will perform piano trios by Beethoven and Mendelssohn, and will be joined by the violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama for Dvorak’s Piano Quartet in E flat. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 31-Feb. 6 2014-01-31T00:02:45Z Kahane preceded Mendelssohn's "Italian" symphony with Nocturne and Scherzo from the composer's incidental music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the horn-rich Nocturne allowing Todd a final bow. L.A. Chamber Orchestra ending season on a sunny note 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The Mendelssohn was spruce and radiant with rapid-fire staccatos, weightless phrasing in the Andante and a palpable dance step to the Saltarello. SCO/Fischer – review 2013-02-03T18:43:21Z As such he conducted the premiere of the 16-year-old Felix Mendelssohn’s bewitching “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Overture in 1827, but the demands of his post cannot have been crushing. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z It’s a hard contrast to process, but Mendelssohn’s detailed examination — geared more to the devout Wildephile than to the casual fan — is compelling. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z During the Mendelssohn bicentenary in 2009 Mr. Hanani saw an opportunity to bring Franck’s music to light by programming works of both composers in the series he directs, Close Encounters With Music. Music Review: Yehuda Hanani Revives Eduard Franck at the Frick - Review 2011-10-05T21:45:06Z Groups like the American Classical Orchestra in New York began playing Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and their contemporaries in period style in the 1980s and ’90s. Music Review: Grand Harmonie at the Church of the Epiphany 2013-05-26T21:47:26Z In live recordings of works by Ravel, Mendelssohn, Brahms and especially Haydn, these three musicians dance on a fizzy alchemy of melody and rhythmic verve. Trio con Brio Copenhagen: cultural connections 2012-01-13T23:07:04Z But with Mendelssohn, Dudamel is more like an amphibian taking to air. Dudamel adds his dramatic touch to a night of Mendelssohn at Hollywood Bowl 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Many listeners, he added, consider Mendelssohn, a happy child prodigy who composed his marvelous String Octet at 16, a rival to Mozart in terms of teenage brilliance. Music Review: Perlman, Ma and Ax in Live From Lincoln Center 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z Ashton’s is set in costumes of the early-19th-century era of Mendelssohn’s music, Balanchine’s in a Russian-American idea of the mythical Athenian period described by Shakespeare’s play. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z Mendelssohn’s beloved overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” can be used two ways, both wondrous. Shakespeare in Disney Hall: An L.A. Phil 'Dream' deferred 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z "After Bach died, only a few musicians played him until Mendelssohn brought him back." Renowned pianist to play once-again-popular Prokofiev concerto with Seattle Symphony 2010-09-16T22:21:00Z Ms. Yip pushed for better hours and started building up their repertoire with basics like Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and, she said, “lots of Stravinsky, because I’m a big fan.” A Conductor Following Family Footsteps and Blazing a Trail 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Pairing the Schubert with Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony, which ended the program, was a good idea, since the Mendelssohn ends with a saltarello, sort of a no-kidding tarantella. Music Review: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Plays at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-10T23:23:32Z Fans of fireworks won't be disappointed though, in either the opening Capriccio in F sharp minor or the astonishingly assured bravura finale of the Sonata in E major, both the work of the teenage Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol 1 – review 2013-02-24T00:05:38Z But the weightiness that seemed unsuited to Bach worked surprisingly well in Mendelssohn's Third Sonata. Alessandro Taverna ? review 2012-02-10T18:15:42Z In the 19th century, Mendelssohn wrote collections of short piano pieces, more for the parlour than the concert hall; "Songs without words" he called them, as if purely instrumental music required an apology. Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z Mendelssohn insisted the tune should never be used for religious purposes, Gant said, but 15 years later, William Cummings, a British organist, took the melody and added words from a Methodist hymn. A New Carol for an Old Christmas Tradition 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The Nazis organized boycotts of Mendelssohn and Co. and excluded Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from important leadership positions. Picasso portrait returned by National Gallery to heirs of Jewish banker persecuted by Nazis 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club in Philadelphia, it has been performed in Pennsylvania at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston and, earlier last week, at Penn State. As Trump Tries to Revive Coal, an Oratorio Confronts Mining’s Past 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Like the estranged king and queen of the fairy realm, Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and the play that inspired it have undergone something of a separation. Hallé/Stenz – review 2013-03-01T17:09:36Z Even Wagner, no fan of Mendelssohn’s, admired the Romantic, poetic qualities of this symphony. Music Review: On a Cold Night, Bending the Rules of Harmony 2010-12-14T06:15:15Z Concerts in the Heights, an all-female quintet, will perform works by Brahms and Mendelssohn. Spare Times for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:40:03Z The programs earlier in the week began with Cage's early ballet score, "The Seasons," before moving on to audience favorites: Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Stravinsky's ballet, "Pulcinella." San Francisco Symphony interprets John Cage, with great results 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Later on, a celebration of keyboards includes music by three different Bachs, Mendelssohn, Satie, Lutoslawski and more. Classical Music Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z This last, focusing on civic emancipation and economic rights, originated with Moses Mendelssohn in the late 18th century and led young 19th-century Jews into myriad forms of political activism. ‘The House of Twenty Thousand Books’ recreates an intellectual milieu 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z It was on a gently reflective note that Williams ended, with a Mendelssohn Venetian Gondelied, in memory of the festival's artistic director, composer Gareth Walters, who died six weeks ago. Llyr Williams – review 2012-07-18T16:46:24Z Ballet is lucky that it has two superlative versions of Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Balanchine’s from 1962 and Ashton’s from 1964, both using music by Mendelssohn. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater?s Ashton Program at the Met 2010-06-09T22:16:00Z Balanchine, without any alterations, incorporates other Mendelssohn scores that expand the vast classical Romanticism of his conception, and the contrasts of scale with which he shapes the drama are astounding. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z “The Dream” is visually beautiful, seamlessly entwined with the famed Mendelssohn score, and concise. Shakespeare: huge dance fan. Check out these Bard-themed dances on DVD Blum was commissioned to paint grand murals along the proscenium of Mendelssohn Hall in New York City. Motor City exhibition ‘Dance’ shows how motion has long inspired American art 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The vast majority of the 19th century's most important conductors were also its composers: Mendelssohn, who revived Bach's St Matthew Passion for audiences in Leipzig, Berlioz, Weber, Liszt, and, above all, Wagner. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z Mendelssohn, like Mozart a prodigy composer, wrote two indisputable masterpieces in his adolescence: the String Octet and Overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z The Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki joins the Orpheus players for Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a piece that they released on record, to some effect, in February. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Its new approach was evident in its two Mostly Mozart Festival concerts at Alice Tully Hall: a Beethoven program on Thursday evening, already reviewed, and works by Mozart, Bach and Mendelssohn on Sunday afternoon. Music Review: Mostly Mozart and Chamber Orchestra of Europe 2012-08-07T21:46:15Z The finale was Mendelssohn's very early Piano Quartet No. 1, an ambitious but unevenly inspired teenaged work that few music lovers would choose to accompany them to that proverbial desert island. Chamber-music evening full of great composers, lesser works 2012-07-12T14:56:05Z The programme comprised music by Mendelssohn, Dvorák and Brahms – all promoted by the RPS in their lifetimes. Philharmonia/Sokhiev – review 2013-01-27T17:26:00Z He performed three pieces: two from Bach and one from Mendelssohn. Joshua Bell’s Metro encore draws a crowd Meanwhile, take in Mozart’s K. 428 quartet, Bartók’s fourth, and Mendelssohn’s precious A minor work. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Nov. 7-13 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z And Mendelssohn’s fascination with Baroque music — captured in this Bachian, if broad-boned, Prelude and Fugue — made his appearance here seem thematically apt, if peripheral. Music Review: Baroque 4x4 Festival at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church 2012-08-28T21:04:06Z The music is to 10 of Mendelssohn’s 48 “Songs Without Words,” all very charming, covering diverse moods; the title, “Words,” might lead you to expect some of Mr. Morris’s mime gestures or expressionistic motifs. Mark Morris’s ‘Words,’ a Premiere at Fall for Dance 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Before the dogs were marched out onto the stage, their parents waiting nervously in the foyer, Berkeley cued the music: The familiar “Wedding March” from Mendelssohn’s suite of incidental music. Dogs get a sniff of the stage life with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s casting call The program ends with Mendelssohn’s spirited “Scottish” Symphony. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Built around the theme of Mendelssohn — he traveled! he revived Bach! — the core series is dominated by relentlessly unthreatening standards. Review: A Musical Tour of Mendelssohn’s Europe 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Composers like Mahler, Martinu and Mendelssohn were blacklisted on the basis of religion, politics and race. Nejiko Suwa and Joseph Goebbels’s Gift 2012-09-21T17:36:28Z They reveal a composer caught on the brink of Romanticism; some moments recall late Beethoven or Schubert, others anticipate Mendelssohn and Schumann, or look back to Haydn and Mozart. Onslow: String Quartets Nos 28, 29 & 30 2010-04-22T21:40:00Z The effect is like a percussive, nuggety take on a Mendelssohn gondola song, complete with samples of Venetian church bells, a symbol for time and grief: The work floods with emotional power. Review: Four Days of Luigi Nono in ‘Utopian Listening’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z “You can detect how brilliant Mozart was writing individual parts instead of vertically. Mendelssohn’s ‘Songs Without Words’ have those beautiful paintings in them. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z But in the Mendelssohn the Brooklyn Youth Chorus was delightful. Review: From Royal Ballet, a Blend of Enchantment and Intensity 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The piece was given its premiere in April 2014 at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Mendelssohn Club Chorus. Julia Wolfe's 'Anthracite Fields' wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize in music 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z When the bride walked down the aisle to meet her groom, everyone began humming Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March.” They Eloped on the Way to Their Wedding 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Where the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh will find a perch is anyone’s guess. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z The recently announced fall schedule includes compositions by Chopin, Schumann and Mendelssohn, among others. Lunchtime in London: Great Composers at St. James's 2010-08-29T10:00:00Z Here, the audience, impatient for the Mendelssohn symphony to follow, responded like children who had been promised dessert if they ate their first course, only to be presented with the first course again. Northern Sinfonia/Holliger | Classical review 2010-03-18T21:45:00Z But there were also moments of great delicacy, as with the evanescent pizzicatos at the end of the symphony’s Vivace non troppo movement, a quintessential Mendelssohn scherzo in all but name. Review: The Academy of Ancient Music Tackled Mendelssohn at Mostly Mozart Festival 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Last year's Mendelssohn bicentenary unearthed very little , as there is very little to unearth. The Homecoming/The Prodigal Son 2010-07-20T20:45:00Z In the spring at the Kennedy Center Honors, he delivered the third movement of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in a soaring tribute to honoree Midori. Perspective | Best classical music of 2021: Noseda reunites with the NSO, ‘Fire’ lights up the Met 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Stone, 56, and Ms. Wilt, 51, each held their 79-year-old father’s hands, and all three began moving forward as Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” began playing. One Wedding Ceremony. Two Couples. Four ‘I Dos.’ 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Photograph: Mark McNulty Mendelssohn, it would seem, blew hot and cold about , a genre associated with his youth. Die Hochzeit des?Camacho ? review 2011-04-13T18:01:01Z The program included the Prelude to “Cappriccio” by Strauss, sections from the Holberg Suite by Grieg and Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia No. 1 Mr. Owens’s background made for some interesting moments at Aspen. He Sings, He Conducts (and He's Not Bad on the Oboe) 2010-08-03T20:53:00Z The symphonies are substantial pieces – the First from 1861, lasts almost 70 minutes – in a style that seems closest to Mendelssohn and Schumann with just hints of Brahms and Wagner in the later works. Raff: Symphonies Nos 1 ? 11; Suites 2010-07-29T21:50:00Z Phil inaugurated the new Bowl shell with the Mendelssohn and production of the play by A Noise Within. Dudamel adds his dramatic touch to a night of Mendelssohn at Hollywood Bowl 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The Mendelssohn score, incidental music he composed for the play, was performed with a delightful, singing sweetness. Washington Ballet’s season finale: Space Age world premiere & earthy classics 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z In the fall of 1990, it was announced that Mr. Masur would take over four December performances of Mendelssohn’s oratorio “Elijah,” which Bernstein, in failing health, had been scheduled to lead. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Diangienda is now on his way to London to become an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society, an accolade previously granted to the likes of Mendelssohn, Rossini, Wagner, Brahms and Stravinsky. The scratch orchestra of Kinshasa 2013-05-09T17:29:43Z In the late 18th century, a German Jew by the name of Moses Mendelssohn, the pupil of a rabbi from Dessau, grappled with the thorny Jewish dilemma. Millenniums of Tribulation 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z In addition to playing soothing music, Challenger used his time at the organ to entertain and spark memories by playing songs like Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March.” Organists offer soundtrack to jabs at medieval UK cathedral 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Here he was exceptionally fine, from the meaty downward line, amid trembling violas, in the Mendelssohn quintet’s third movement to the exuberant blossoming at the start of the Brahms. Season Finale at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z His Second Symphony, the "Song of Praise," is one of those Mendelssohn works that incorporate elements from the Protestant tradition. Wagner and Mendelssohn make interesting bedfellows at Seattle Symphony 2010-06-18T18:33:00Z This was part of a generally dull concert by the festival orchestra under the direction of Matthew Halls that included a dispirited Mendelssohn Overture and a mild-mannered rendition of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8. At Mostly Mozart, a Self-Effacing Magnetism 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z This “Dream” is costumed in the early-Victorian attire contemporaneous with Mendelssohn’s music. Review: Washington Ballet Scales New Heights via the Classics 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Paganini, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Rachmaninoff were all considered among the top virtuosos of their day. Composer Stephen Hough, accomplished on paper and in the concert hall 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Their sound was too small for the Usher Hall, but was still thrilling – the Mendelssohn buoyant and radiant, the Haydn gracefully poised. ASMF/Isserlis/Bell ? review 2011-03-08T18:30:17Z More typical Bargemusic fare is planned for Saturday and Sunday: piano trios by Haydn and Mendelssohn, and a Brahms Violin Sonata. Classical Music Listings for Nov. 4-10 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z “It’s a very humanizing story, and musically, the Mendelssohn is very humanizing,” Berkeley said. Dogs get a sniff of the stage life with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s casting call Here St. Thomas’s very fine organist recreates a program of Bach works that Mendelssohn performed at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig in 1840. Classical & Opera Listings for June 19-25 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn was certainly a master of melody, a genius particularly evident in his “Songs Without Words.” Music Review: Perlman, Ma and Ax in Live From Lincoln Center 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z Pairing this 20th-century masterpiece with a sparking performance of Mendelssohn’s beloved Violin Concerto enhances the CD’s broad appeal. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Among the 65 people to receive this honor were Mendelssohn, Liszt, Dvorak and Copland. Music Review: A Slide Show for the Ear, Given by Emanuel Ax 2011-04-29T21:40:52Z The third movement is like some intergalactic Mendelssohn scherzo. Music Review: Revisiting an Annual Rite of Beethoven and Sibelius 2011-03-01T22:13:44Z But it was in parts of the Mendelssohn that the sound of the period instruments was most distinctive. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra Opens at Alice Tully Hall 2012-10-16T21:45:14Z A Midsummer Night’s Dream Principal guest conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the LA Phil and guest vocalists in Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with actors performing scenes from Shakespeare’s fantasy tale. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Nov. 5-12: 'Persona' at REDCAT and more 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z He next played Chopin’s Scherzo No. 2, which, juxtaposed with the gentle Mendelssohn miniatures, was jarring. British pianist Leon McCawley shines in program at the Phillips Brahms’s Symphony No. 3, a descendant of the early-Romantic Mendelssohns, followed the intermission. Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays Avery Fisher Hall 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z But Mendelssohn went ahead and did something unique. Seattle Symphony takes on Mendelssohn's ambitious 'Lobgesang' 2010-06-09T23:42:00Z For the concert at Strathmore, presented by Washington Performing Arts, Fischer offered a traditional repertory program: an overture and concerto by Mozart and the incidental music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Felix Mendelssohn. Budapest Festival Orchestra at Strathmore 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Schumann’s nontraditional, through-composed form, seamless without breaks between movements, Reich has noted, bears the influence of Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn Octet Felix Mendelssohn wrote the first version when he was 16. Samuel West Takes Comfort in D&D, Mendelssohn and Ron Swanson’s Whiskey 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z This was an unusually powerful and eloquent rendition of the music, which is a singular collage of items by Felix Mendelssohn, culled from multiple scores by George Balanchine for his two-act drama. City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Of those the Mendelssohn, with its currents of Romanticism and broad contrasts, seemed to engage Mr. Chamayou more fully. Music Review: Mostly Mozart at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-08-25T22:15:11Z “See how simple it is?” he asks after the Philharmonic surges through the opening bars of Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” at a concert devoted to understanding melody. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Sight-impaired from an early age, he took up the violin at 6 and performed Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor with the Boston Symphony Orchestra three years later. Joe Morello, Drummer with Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dies at 82 2011-03-13T21:52:59Z Yet, for whatever reasons, he returned with only the most standard of standard repertory: Prokofiev’s “Classical” Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Major Return Played Safe 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Wolfe traces its modern forms back to the 18th-century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment he helped inspire. ‘At Home in Exile,’ on the Jewish Diaspora, by Alan Wolfe 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Hogwood had a particular affinity for Mendelssohn and was scheduled to conduct the composer’s “Elijah” in March 2015 with the Handel and Haydn Society. Christopher Hogwood, Early-Music Devotee, Dies at 73 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Little wonder that Mendelssohn himself, on a trip to Mull, Iona and Staffa, was inspired to write the Hebrides Overture. Scotland's best classical music festivals 2012-05-25T21:45:07Z As Schulz said, “He finds the Mendelssohn moments in Wagner.” One of the World’s Great Maestros Is Suddenly a Free Agent 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Attendees can expect more immediate rewards: live music, a D.J., free popcorn and soda, new friends and works that are as far away from old masters as Nicki Minaj is from Mendelssohn. Spare Times for Children for June 15-21 2012-06-14T22:46:48Z That’s another reason — other than sexism, that is — for the Mendelssohns not to be featured together orchestrally: She simply didn’t write much for orchestra. Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays Avery Fisher Hall 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z In its poise and pastoral freshness David’s writing resembles some music of Schubert and Mendelssohn. Review: Quatuor Cambini-Paris Revisits Neglected French Composers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Wilde would later reconfigure the Americans’ provincial attacks against him and commodify them into concentrated doses of dizzy drama, Mendelssohn argues. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z His Scotch Symphony, replete with misty ruins and ceremonial tartans and set to Mendelssohn, is less a tribute to Scotland itself than to the romantic ballets of 19th-century Paris, especially La Sylphide. Mariinsky Ballet: Don Quixote; Balanchine/Robbins triple bill ? review 2011-08-06T23:06:13Z He provided an immaculate accompaniment to Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, in which soloist Akiko Suwanai's glossy tone and seamless legato made up for a certain blandness of character. BBCSO/Davis 2010-04-14T21:15:00Z Mendelssohn’s beloved incidental music for ’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” is so elaborate that it was not hard for later composers to fashion the various pieces into an evening-length ballet score. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z Those qualities are matched, though in an earlier harmonic accent, in the Mendelssohn Octet, represented here by a lively, seat-of-the-pants reading of the opening Allegro moderato con fuoco movement. Music Review: Bowing and Plucking to Honor a Festival 2011-01-16T22:09:24Z Ms. Lack was the first concertmaster of the Little Orchestra Society in New York and went on to make many recordings, including one of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, Op. Fredell Lack, Admired Violinist and Teacher, Dies at 95 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The mature Mendelssohn 16 years later added about 45 minutes of incidental music to go with Shakespeare’s play. Shakespeare in Disney Hall: An L.A. Phil 'Dream' deferred 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z The great revelation here is that Mendelssohn's melodrama is distinctly un-melodramatic. Hallé/Stenz – review 2013-03-01T17:09:36Z Mendelssohn Mendelssohn: Complete Quartets La Dolce Volta Launched last year, La Dolce Volta is a French label that for some reason sports the silhouette of a motor scooter as its logo. This is Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets – review 2013-06-20T19:10:00Z “There is a connection with Mendelssohn in the last movement, in the counterpoint, but she takes it to another level. It’s used as a dramatic construction.” Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn, a prolific teenage prodigy, composed at least 80 works from age 11 to 16, including operas, string quartets and string symphonies, most performed during Sunday soirees at the family mansion in Berlin. Music Review: Chamber Music Society in Its Season Finale 2010-05-24T23:32:00Z A youthful work that doesn’t quite amount to top-shelf Mendelssohn, the concerto nonetheless offered soaring melodies and ample opportunities for Mr. Bell and Mr. Denk to engage in racing solo lines and breathtaking duo passages. Music Review: Joshua Bell With Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:18:00Z After three decades featuring male composers — Dvorak and His World, Mendelssohn and His World, Schumann and His World — the annual Bard festival is finally spotlighting a woman. She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Bach and Mendelssohn show up in “Partita,” just as “Flûte en Suite” digs up a series of Baroque dances. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The renowned pianist plays a recital of works by Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn. The Week Ahead: M.I.A., Mike Birbiglia and Andr?s Schiff are arts highlights 2010-10-13T23:23:00Z “I don’t think he was playing the Mendelssohn violin concerto,” Mondie says. National Symphony Orchestra violist plays heirloom built by grandfather 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The sections from Mendelssohn’s “First Walpurgisnacht” music, near the end of Act I, acquired a special force. City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z That includes the opener of this program, which is set to some of Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words” and is titled, of course, just “Words.” Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z And it is all in the family: Mr. Isserlis is Mendelssohn’s distant cousin. Spare Times: For Children, for Jan. 13-19 2012-01-12T22:22:26Z But Mendelssohn makes the piano behave here, and there are frequent violin excursions accompanied by filigreed runs and rippling arpeggios on the solicitous piano. Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z The months of Mendelssohn Hensel’s “Das Jahr” — the excerpts here include January, February, June and December — do not depict the changing seasons so much as the composer’s experiences in a single year. Review: At Ballet Theater, a Tribute to an Overlooked Female Composer 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z And Mendelssohn wrote the “Reformation” Symphony for the tercentenary — but in 1830, the anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, not 1817, a year after the 7-year-old Mendelssohn, born Jewish, was baptized a Lutheran. 500 Years Later, the Reformation Is Still Creating Music 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Stage productions don't tend to opt for this 19th-century Romantic response to the text, while Mendelssohn's music has survived as a truncated concert suite, chiefly celebrated for its overture and, of course, that wedding march. Hallé/Stenz – review 2013-03-01T17:09:36Z The evening ended with Emery LeCrone’s “Five Songs for Piano,” set to Mendelssohn and originally created for the Columbia Ballet Collaborative. Dance Review: 104 Degrees of Spirited Dancing 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z The Escher’s bruising style and somewhat grainy sound proved a less natural fit for a composer such as Felix Mendelssohn. Escher String Quartet takes an aggressive approach to chamber music 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z On the program are Mendelssohn’s “Variations Sérieuses,” Bach’s Partita No. 4 and the first book of Debussy’s Préludes. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Neatly symmetrical, the concert began and ended with canonical Beethoven, with interesting curiosities by Mendelssohn and Bloch and a relative rarity, George Crumb’s “Apparition,” among them. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-21T22:19:11Z The young Mendelssohn was a virtuosic performer on piano and violin, and this concerto is an unabashed showpiece for both instruments. Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z He saved a particular intonation of voice for ringing Tony to complain about what "Mendelssohn", as he called him, had been briefing the papers. The enemy within: how Machiavelli would have dealt with Gordon Brown 2010-10-09T05:59:00Z And Ehnes joins other north American string players in a fizzing account of the glorious Octet, written by the wildly precocious Mendelssohn at the age of 16 – without a trace of teenage angst. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto/Octet ? review 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z While the symphony played Felix Mendelssohn’s incidental music for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on stage, seven actors portrayed the more than 20 roles in a four-night engagement last weekend. Dogs get a sniff of the stage life with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s casting call For a traditional program of Mendelssohn and Mozart, the festival orchestra abandoned David Geffen Hall, the space it typically uses, for Alice Tully Hall. Lincoln Center Still Has Mostly Mozart, but What Is It? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z But it is in Act II that Balanchine demonstrates the ideal of Romantic love: two anonymous dancers at the wedding divertissement dance to Mendelssohn’s string symphony No. 9. Love Two Ways: Ashton and Balanchine on Romance 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn wrote the piece in 1847, shortly after the sudden death of his beloved older sister, Fanny, also a gifted composer and her brother’s artistic confidante. Music Review: Quatuor Ébène Plays Schumann and Errol Garner 2014-02-23T21:46:20Z The ensemble comes to Carnegie Hall’s intimate Weill Recital Hall for a program of works by Mendelssohn, Thomas Adès and Shostakovich. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 31-Feb. 6 2014-01-31T00:02:45Z Mendelssohn's Bach and our Rodgers and Hammerstein reconstructions share a common point: people need time before they are ready to listen with open ears to works that have become "unfashionable". Rodgers and Hammerstein: the Mozarts of the 20th century 2010-08-11T20:45:00Z Harry Beck, who designed the London tube map, and Mendelssohn are to be commemorated soon. Simon Hoggart's week: a stalking horse from the same stable 2013-02-01T15:39:43Z The most violent playing across the series, oddly, comes in the first movement of Mendelssohn’s A minor quartet on “Prism II,” as a young disciple rages at a master’s death. The Danish String Quartet’s ‘Prism’ Is Essential Listening 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z On paper, a program offering works by Haydn and Mendelssohn might not seem so daring. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in October 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z He made his performance debut in San Francisco in 1928, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, and soon toured New York and Europe. Ruggiero Ricci, Virtuoso Violinist, Dies at 94 2012-08-10T02:50:07Z It culminates in a performance of Mendelssohn's String Symphony, when all groups come together on the Friday and Saturday.• Scotland's best classical music festivals 2012-05-25T21:45:07Z Without overstating the case, I think you can compare the revival of the great film musical scores with what Mendelssohn did in Berlin in 1829 when he revived Bach's St Matthew Passion. Rodgers and Hammerstein: the Mozarts of the 20th century 2010-08-11T20:45:00Z Before the Vienna Philharmonic’s three concerts over the weekend at Carnegie Hall, I was primed for this storied orchestra’s dashing Mendelssohn, formidable Brahms and majestic Bruckner. The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Mendelssohn’s music for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is full of sweet thunder and other wonderful noises. At Ballet Theater, a Thrilling Puck and a Moment to Take Stock 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z His origins notwithstanding, Mendelssohn was a better Christian than Wagner. Wagner and Mendelssohn make interesting bedfellows at Seattle Symphony 2010-06-18T18:33:00Z But what's missing when the two are cleaved is Mendelssohn's sense of melodrama. Hallé/Stenz – review 2013-03-01T17:09:36Z Petrenko has fun with it and the cast is excellent, though Mendelssohn's implacable tenor writing pushes Jérôme Billy's Basilio to his limits. Die Hochzeit des?Camacho ? review 2011-04-13T18:01:01Z After Handel’s death, Mozart and Mendelssohn rearranged its score. Dance Review: Mark Morris Stages ‘Acis and Galatea’ 2014-04-28T21:20:19Z The first, in E flat, was dedicated to Brahms, though musically it owes much more to Mendelssohn and Schumann, without ever matching either composer or even Bruch's own violin concerto. Bruch: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 2010-04-15T21:50:00Z “What struck me was the happiness I felt in encountering gospel or church music I would then find that same feeling inside a Mendelssohn piece or a chord structure in Beethoven,” Tines said. At 29, this 'El Niño' singer is the buzz of California's opera world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Mendelssohn led the ensemble for a dozen years, where most of his orchestral works were first heard. Gewandhaus Orchestra does German canon justice at Kennedy Center After playing a few bars from Love and Marriage and Mendelssohn’s Wedding March, they grill the operator mercilessly. Computers open up the world of relationships – archive, 11 November 1983 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Most astonishing, Mendelssohn was still in his teens when he wrote his first piano sonata. Review: Philip Glass, at 82, Unveils His First Piano Sonata 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Critics raved when he played the Mendelssohn in Manhattan in 1929. Ruggiero Ricci, Virtuoso Violinist, Dies at 94 2012-08-10T02:50:07Z Stewart Goodyear took off like gangbusters in the Mendelssohn piano concerto — fast, efficient, driving — and put aside elegance for hair-raising thrills. Mostly Mozart’s Repertoire Broadens With Its Audience 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The closest thing, a staging of Mendelssohn’s incidental music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” was canceled last minute for supposed scheduling difficulties. Commentary: Look out, New York. This is what an L.A. summer week looks like for Gustavo Dudamel 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Originally the concert was to include a staged performance by director Alberto Arvelo of Mendelssohn’s incidental music to “Midsummer’s Night Dream” with vocal soloists and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Review: The Hollywood Bowl opens with Dudamel and raft of favorites 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z Ehnes’ own string quartet performs one of the most engaging early Romantic examples of the genre by Mendelssohn, the “Mozart of the 19th century” — with Mozart’s own dazzling two-piano piece to start the program. Your guide to this summer chamber music festival 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z In just a few minutes of Hagan, you can hear the melodic thrust and drama of Mendelssohn, or the elegant weave of the familiar and the fresh you get from Amy Beach. A pioneering Black composer gets her due, 110 years after her debut 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z “Riprap” has the freshness, zest and originality of a young Mendelssohn. Review: On a moonlit night, new music and nature meet at the Ford under a Green Umbrella 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z A live band played traditional songs like Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" as joyful couples, some in matching outfits, said their vows together. After two-year hiatus, Mexico City conducts mass ceremony for same-sex couples 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z The Mendelssohn was recently dropped for the unsatisfying excuse of scheduling conflicts. Review: The Hollywood Bowl opens with Dudamel and raft of favorites 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z Andrew Litton conducted the Opera House orchestra in the Mendelssohn score. Review | In a terrible week, the much-needed balm of ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Like many romantic composers, Felix Mendelssohn drew on literature, such as Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as the inspiration for his music. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His father was a professional musician who played pedal steel guitar in the improbably named Felix Mendelssohn’s Hawaiian Serenaders, which played faux-luau arrangements of popular songs including “In the Mood” and “Whispering.” Gary Brooker, singer-songwriter of ‘Whiter Shade of Pale,’ dies at 76 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z People love to brings various Schumanns and Mendelssohns into discussions of Farrenc, and I get it — who doesn’t love bearings? Review | Noseda and the NSO bring new energy to Haydn and overdue attention to Farrenc 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z German Reinhardt was respectful of another nation’s anthem, just as she was, in her highly capable manner, to Mendelssohn’s spirited “Italian” Symphony. Gustavo Dudamel built a ladder. These conductors, many women, are climbing — fast 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Thor Johnson, the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony, took an interest in young Jimmy, who advanced quickly and made his debut with the orchestra at 10, playing Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1. James Levine, Former Met Opera Maestro, Is Dead at 77 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z At 10, he made his debut with the Cincinnati Symphony as the soloist in a performance of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 2. James Levine, acclaimed Metropolitan Opera conductor who faced abuse allegations, dies at 77 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z “Pasadena Presents” Pasadena Symphony’s spring season gets underway with Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto featuring violinist Chee-Yun plus Mendelssohn’s Octet for Strings. 22 weekend culture picks: A Belafonte birthday bash with Jay-Z and Tiffany Haddish 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Mendelssohn composed from a deeply felt spirituality — an exuberantly joyful one at that. Feedback: KMET's 'Paraquat' Kelley on Eddie Van Halen 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Shortly after his death, Mendelssohn was attacked for being a Jew by an insanely jealous Richard Wagner and discredited by progressives for being a conservative. Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Up first: works by Florence Price and Mendelssohn. Your weekend culture watch list, from a Bollywood dance party to free 'Carousel' 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn was only 16 when he wrote it. Never read Middlemarch or listened to Wagner’s Ring cycle? Now’s your chance 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Theirs is a massive family tree extending from a 16th-century rabbi from Padua to Frankel’s father, with branches including Karl Marx, philosopher Martin Buber, composer Felix Mendelssohn and journalist David Halberstam. Review | The Holocaust, mental illness and a family’s secrets 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Apart from this minor detail, everything else Swed says about Felix Mendelssohn and his long-overdue recognition and acceptance by our day is right on. Feedback: KMET's 'Paraquat' Kelley on Eddie Van Halen 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z George Bernard Shaw complained of Mendelssohn’s “despicable oratorio mongering.” Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Opera Orchestra share the stage in a program that includes works by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms. 8 best things to do in L.A. and O.C. including Blue Man Group 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Pittance Chamber Music presents soprano Liv Redpath and members of the LA Opera Orchestra in a program that includes works by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Dinnerstein and Haimovitz make beautiful music together and more classical concerts in SoCal this week 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Le Salon de Musiques The chamber-music series presents “Passionate Romances,” a program of works for voice, strings and piano by Schumann, Mendelssohn and Robert Kahn. Classical music in L.A. this week: Handel's Messiah, 'La Boheme' and more 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Mark Swed’s “How to Listen” piece about Felix Mendelssohn and the Octet for Strings was wonderfully informative. Feedback: KMET's 'Paraquat' Kelley on Eddie Van Halen 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z In his otherwise probing “The Romantic Generation,” Charles Rosen sniffily titled his chapter on the composer “Mendelssohn and the Invention of Religious Kitsch.” Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Le Salon de Musiques The intimate chamber-music series presents “Passionate Romances,” a program of works for voice, strings and piano by Schumann, Mendelssohn and Robert Kahn. Classical music in L.A. this week: Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Handel's Messiah and more 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons Zurich Chamber Orchestra is joined by violinists Daniel Hope and Willi Zimmerman for a program that includes the Vivaldi favorite plus pieces by Bach, Mendelssohn and El-Khoury. Classical music in L.A. this week: Danish String Quartet, Zurich Chamber Orchestra and more 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z The filly is a half-sister to four-time Eclipse Award winner Beholder and Grade 1 stakes winners Mendelssohn and Into Mischief. American Pharoah filly sells for record $8.2 million 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Live From Lincoln Center Musicians of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center are in Greece for a performance of works by Mendelssohn, Beethoven and others. What's on TV Friday: 'Good Talk With Anthony Jeselnik' on Comedy Central 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z A withering Ludwig Wittgenstein reduced Mendelssohn to “a man who is jolly when the people he is with are jolly anyway.” Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z In the annals of composing prodigies, Korngold’s only serious rival is Felix Mendelssohn. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the Opera Composer Who Went Hollywood 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The gilded instrument, painted with cherubs and monkeys, will deliver music by Victoria's favourite composer, Mendelssohn, as well as several songs composed by her husband, Prince Albert. The BBC Proms are going to outer space 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn’s Elijah Baritone Patrick Blackwell and others perform in this Friends of Music presentation of the classic oratorio. SoCal classical music listings, April 14-21: Stravinsky, Salonen and more 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z She was previously honored by Berlin with the Moses Mendelssohn Prize, named after the Jewish philosopher and given to honor people for fostering tolerance. Reinvented legacy: Nazi’s paintings fund foundation for Jews 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and son of a wealthy Berlin banker, the composer was the epitome of white privilege, growing up in an idyllic Berlin mansion, where he was given every opportunity. Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Gunnevera, Thunder Snow and the early pacesetter Mendelssohn made things interesting in a wide-open field, an upside to the absence of Justiry, horse racing’s 13th Triple Crown winner. In Winning Breeders’ Cup Classic, Accelerate Challenges a Triple Crown Winner 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Gunnevera, Thunder Snow and early pace setter Mendelssohn made things interesting in a wide-open field, an upside to the absence of horse racing’s 13th Triple Crown winner from the Classic. Accelerate wins Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Ryan Moore sent Aidan O’Brien’s Mendelssohn straight in to the lead and then settled at the head of affairs for the next mile, setting strong fractions as he did so. Frankie Dettori wins Breeders’ Cup Turf on Enable to complete dream double 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z But once the gate opened he positioned himself just off the pace, picked up the tempo entering the far turn and then moved even with Mendelssohn entering the stretch. Accelerate breaks John Sadler's winless streak in big races at Breeders' Cup Classic - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Imagine the premiere of the Octet at one of the Mendelssohns’ regular Sunday salons that attracted the leading poets, philosophers and powerful politicians of the day. Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z GMT, three runners from British and Irish stables – Roaring Lion, Thunder Snow and Mendelssohn – attempt to plunder the most valuable and prestigious race of the meeting, the Classic. Breeders' Cup 2018: day two – live! 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn & Sibelius String quartets performed by members of the LA Phil. The week ahead in SoCal classical music, Oct. 28-Nov. 4: 'Nosferatu,' 'Vampyr' and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The intimate chamber-music series Le Salon de Musiques launches its ninth season of music and conversation with “Romantic Nostalgia,” a program of string quartets by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Purcell. Weekend Picks for Oct. 4-7: Los Angeles Ballet, 'Wicked Lit,' Le Salon de Musiques and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Le Salon de Musiques The intimate chamber-music series opens its ninth season with “Romantic Nostalgia,” a program of works for string quartet by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Purcell. The week ahead in SoCal classical music, Sept. 30-Oct. 7: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, L.A. Phil and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Still, Mendelssohn never stopped seeing himself as a Jew. Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Fifty Hollywood Bowl summers ago, Itzhak Perlman, 23 and already pegged to be the next great violinist, made his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Review: Itzhak Perlman shows his staying power at 50th Hollywood Bowl anniversary 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z In 1942, a Royal Albert Hall concert featured her work alongside that of Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky, and in 1952 she won a competition to compose the Coronation Overture. Women composers: why are so many voices still silent? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Perhaps the biggest mystery and curiosity in a race full of them, the second choice Mendelssohn wound up last. Justify shakes off muddy track, wins 144th Kentucky Derby in commanding performance 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn, who won the UAE Derby in Dubai by 18 ½ lengths, was third favorite and finished last in the 20-horse field. Justify wins Kentucky Derby in convincing fashion 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Disastrously, Germany didn’t either: Hitler toppled the Mendelssohn monument in Leipzig. Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn, trying to become the first Europe-based horse to win the Derby, finished last. Justify wins sloppy Kentucky Derby, Baffert gets 5th title 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z History would be written if Ireland-based Mendelssohn pulls off a victory. The Latest: Some Derby fans call it a day, head for exits 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Then there is Mendelssohn, who won his last race, the UAE Derby, by 18 1/2 lengths. In a Kentucky Derby filled with fascinating story lines, Justify manages to stand out 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s another to see that foal eventually win a major race such as the UAE Derby in Dubai by 18½ lengths, a Mendelssohn performance that reminded Mitchell smack-dab of Beholder. The Kentucky Derby field is dominated by a horse that died in 2015 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Even the even-tempered, athletic Mendelssohn is part myth. Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Scat Daddy, Mendelssohn’s sire, was starting to become established as an outstanding stallion of dirt and turf horses when he died in 2015. Mendelssohn is bred for his date with destiny in the Kentucky Derby 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z An old jinx could be disproved, and history would be written if Mendelssohn wears the garland of red roses. A Derby with lightly raced colts, and lots of possibilities 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Strong, outgoing and trained by Aiden O’Brien, Mendelssohn must quickly learn Churchill Downs after hitting the track for the first time Thursday following quarantine since his arrival. Justify tops list of leading contenders in Kentucky Derby 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z And then came a resounding triumph in the UAE Derby in Dubai in March where Mendelssohn romped by 18 1/2 lengths to earn a trip to Kentucky, where he was bred. Mendelssohn will try to become first European Kentucky Derby winner 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The 1954 recording is an example of one of the few modernist ensembles who took Mendelssohn serious at that time. Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Justify, who will challenge Mendelssohn for favouritism in a 20-strong field, is another son of Scat Daddy who could be valued in the high eight figures by Saturday night. Mendelssohn is bred for his date with destiny in the Kentucky Derby 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn has the least amount of time on the Churchill Downs dirt than any horse in the field. A Derby with lightly raced colts, and lots of possibilities 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z But then few horses have matched the globe-trotting credentials of Mendelssohn, the 5-1 second choice for America’s greatest race on Saturday. Mendelssohn wants to be 1st Euro Kentucky Derby winner 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z There’s a Mott element, a Baffert favorite, a Pletcher mass and then the second favorite, Mendelssohn, sitting over unseen and mysterious in his barn, quarantine process ongoing, after another of his globe-trotting trips. The 2018 Kentucky Derby has a slew of star power and a slew of favorites 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn was 16 when he produced this truest embodiment of unbridled, anything-is-possible youth. Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn is perhaps an even stronger contender than Arazi, for all that he is not sure to start favourite. Mendelssohn is bred for his date with destiny in the Kentucky Derby 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The second-favorite would figure to bounce around the board some leading up to the race, for that is Mendelssohn, listed at 5-1 and starting from No. 14. Justify is set as the Kentucky Derby favorite in a deep field 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z “They looked so much alike, Mendelssohn and Beholder,” said Fred Mitchell, who bred both at his Clarkland Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Mendelssohn wants to be 1st Euro Kentucky Derby winner 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Justify has been made the early 3-1 favorite for the Kentucky Derby, with Europe-based Mendelssohn the second choice in a full field of 20 horses. Justify installed early 3-1 favorite for Kentucky Derby 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z This is the immediately recognizable, immediately lovable Mendelssohn of the Overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the Violin Concerto and the “Scottish” and “Italian” Symphonies. Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z O’Brien has had a handful of runners in the race, but Mendelssohn, a dirt-bred colt whose half-sister Beholder was a five-time Grade One winner on the surface, was a Kentucky horse from day one. Mendelssohn is bred for his date with destiny in the Kentucky Derby 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn, winner of the UAE Derby by 18 lengths, will break from the 14th hole and was set as second favorite at 5-1. Horseracing: Justify draws number seven for Kentucky Derby 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z And perhaps a bargain, if Mendelssohn notches another win Saturday in his latest travelogue. Mendelssohn wants to be 1st Euro Kentucky Derby winner 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn was even more impressive with an 18¾-length victory that set a track record at 1 3/16 miles and beat the race record by 2.27 seconds. McKinzie suffers leg injury, won't run in Santa Anita Derby, Bob Baffert says 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Indeed, Mendelssohn’s unsullied exultation led to one of the great and influential careers in music. Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z So the stakes could scarcely be higher as Moore and Mendelssohn prepare for an all-or-nothing race around a tight oval track where no favours will be asked or given. Mendelssohn is bred for his date with destiny in the Kentucky Derby 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z While the World Cup was the main event, the buzz surrounded Mendelssohn, who qualified for the Kentucky Derby by winning the $2-million UAE Derby by an astonishing 18 3/4 lengths. Thunder Snow has impressive win at $10-million Dubai World Cup 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps Mendelssohn, based in Ireland, will give the first leg of the Triple Crown an international flair. Mendelssohn wants to be 1st Euro Kentucky Derby winner 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z "Already with major preps to go, we've got Mendelssohn winning the UAE Derby. … It's a different kind of pressure when you have five. But there is a lot of pressure when you only have one." McKinzie suffers leg injury, won't run in Santa Anita Derby, Bob Baffert says 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z None of that, of course, matters in the slightest when, at his best, Mendelssohn raises your spirits by sweeping you away on the wing of song. Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Between them, Moore, O’Brien and Mendelssohn will never get a better chance to write a chapter of their own. Mendelssohn is bred for his date with destiny in the Kentucky Derby 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Horses that make the trip from Dubai usually are not a factor on the first Saturday in May, but Mendelssohn's performance will no doubt create interest in him as legitimate contender. Thunder Snow has impressive win at $10-million Dubai World Cup 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Stepping onto the Churchill Downs dirt for the first time on Thursday morning, Mendelssohn let out a holler to announce his arrival. Mendelssohn wants to be 1st Euro Kentucky Derby winner 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn will try to qualify for the May 5 Kentucky Derby through the main Derby leaderboard with a victory Saturday in the UAE Derby. Furlongs, not football: Gronkowski earns spot in Ky Derby 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z At his best, moreover, Mendelssohn was the voice not just of good taste and restraint but of essential reason. Mendelssohn: Ah, youth! The sheer pleasure of music that gives us hope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z By contrast, Mendelssohn’s passage towards the Bluegrass State has been serene. Mendelssohn is bred for his date with destiny in the Kentucky Derby 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Del Mar in November, so he is no stranger to long commutes. Thunder Snow has impressive win at $10-million Dubai World Cup 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z It was Mendelssohn’s public debut after two days in quarantine to ensure that he and three stablemates trained by Aidan O’Brien showed no signs of illness following their overseas flight. Mendelssohn wants to be 1st Euro Kentucky Derby winner 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The prizewinning Macedonian pianist brings a creative program to Meany Theater, ranging from Mendelssohn’s intimate “Songs without Words” to the spectacular kaleidoscope of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade.” Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for April 2018 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z SUN-WED Classical music performance featuring Mendelssohn piano trio and vocal performances, 3 p.m. Community calendar: Valentine treats for Zoo and Aquarium critters, Flower & Garden Show, MOHAI Black History Month 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z “He had the dirt pedigree with the Beholder line,” Paul Smith, whose father Derrick’s colours will be aboard Mendelssohn, said this week. Mendelssohn is bred for his date with destiny in the Kentucky Derby 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn, who captured the Juvenile Turf on Friday, was among O’Brien horses that swept the top four spots. Attendance down but mutuel handle up on first day of Breeders' Cup 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z And then came a resounding triumph in the UAE Derby in Dubai in March where Mendelssohn romped by 18 ½ lengths to earn a trip to Kentucky, where he was bred. Mendelssohn wants to be 1st Euro Kentucky Derby winner 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z He recounted the performance of Gustav Mahler’s “Resurrection” symphony earlier this year by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania cantor, once on Schindler’s List, sings on 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Experience the timeless beauty of Bach and Mendelssohn’s most powerful songs played on period instruments, while surrounded with the Gothic architecture of the Cathedral. Religion events from around the Washington area 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Wang will perform two chamber pieces: a string quintet by Felix Mendelssohn and a piano quintet by Antonin Dvorak. Masterpiece restored: Stolen Stradivarius will sing again 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z When The Easter Sonata was discovered, the manuscript was marked "F Mendelssohn," and many concluded it was by Felix. Belated premiere for Fanny Mendelssohn - BBC News 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Mendelssohn has already shown the ability to handle challenges around the globe. Mendelssohn wants to be 1st Euro Kentucky Derby winner 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Although Mendelssohn had converted to Christianity, he remained conscious of his Jewish origins. Bach’s Holy Dread 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z The Cathedral’s Artists in Residence and the Diderot String Quartet perform Bach and Mendelssohn on period instruments, while surrounded with the Gothic architecture of the Cathedral. Religion events from around the Washington area 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z More than 200 years later, Felix Mendelssohn composed music to accompany performances of Shakespeare’s play at the Prussian court. Your Friday Briefing 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z A sonata by Fanny Mendelssohn, which was mistakenly attributed to her more famous brother Felix, will be performed under her name for the first time on International Women's Day. Belated premiere for Fanny Mendelssohn - BBC News 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The series continues on successive Fridays: June 10 will feature music for woodwinds performed by the Poulenc Sextet and June 17 features music for strings by the Mendelssohn Octet. Flint Institute of Music hosting chamber music series 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z In 1824, Bella Salomon, an observant Jew living in Berlin, gave a copy of the St. Matthew to her grandson, Felix Mendelssohn, who resolved to lead a performance. Bach’s Holy Dread 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z As the oldest ensemble of its kind in the world, based in the city of Bach and Mendelssohn, the Leipzig Gewandhaus upheld the core classic and romantic symphonic repertoire more rigidly than any other. Kurt Masur obituary 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Mendelssohn was a fine man, died too young.” Mantle on Commerce Street 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Her diaries, however, went on to become the principle source of information on the Mendelssohn family. Belated premiere for Fanny Mendelssohn - BBC News 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z More than 10 musical acts, including R&B; singer Harvey Scales, will perform at the More Music Less Crime concert Dec. 12 at Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center. Anti-crime concert in Rockford to feature over 10 acts 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z The 82-year-old Mendelssohn is a vibrant character whose personality is revealed in a stream of consciousness as his mind jumps from thought to thought, often pausing to rant about modern life. Review: New short fiction collection by Colum McCann 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z His infinitely cultured association with the Gewandhaus brought light, buoyant Mendelssohn and Schubert; interpretations of other key figures in the tradition such as Beethoven, Mahler and Strauss could sound undernourished. Kurt Masur obituary 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Mayor Bill de Blasio was on hand to help marry a couple in front of the building, and a band played Mendelssohn's "Wedding March." Live Supreme Court reaction: Emotions from joy to sorrow over landmark change for same-sex marriage rights 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn, who hails from Worcester, England, believes it is next to impossible to find a quality cup of tea in the colonies. EXCHANGE: UK women love the quilting, not the tea 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center is donating the use of its concert hall. Anti-crime concert in Rockford to feature over 10 acts 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Powell and her husband attended the April 2014 premier of "Anthracite Fields," performed by the Mendelssohn Club and the Bang on a Can All-Stars in Philadelphia, and came away moved. Pulitzer-winning music a tribute to Pennsylvania coal miners 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Its first season consisted of only two concerts, devoted to standard works by composers like Georg Philipp Telemann, Felix Mendelssohn and Anton Dvorak. Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Adds a Spring Series 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The Moses Mendelssohn Centre announced that it, along with two other leading Jewish groups, would be creating an alternative commission. Anger at German anti-Semitism panel 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z While there, Mendelssohn struck a friendship with Sprague and began building the foundation for a full-fledged tour stop down the road. EXCHANGE: UK women love the quilting, not the tea 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn was only 17 when he composed the overture to the Shakespeare work. Budapest Festival Orchestra to play D.C.’s Strathmore 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Those who wish to hear the musical genius of Beethoven or Mendelssohn are left to decide what the experience is worth. W.Va. Symphony Orchestra plans ‘pay what you wish’ concerts 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z “Mendelssohn admired Mozart and wrote pieces based on Mozart’s style,” Ms. Martin said of her selections. Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Adds a Spring Series 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z A spokesman for the Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies in Germany said it was a "scandal". Anger at German anti-Semitism panel 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Mendelssohn praises the quilting businesses in this area and loves shopping in Hannibal, Missouri. EXCHANGE: UK women love the quilting, not the tea 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Chamber Orchestra will perform a concert of works by Ernest Bloch, Aleksandr Borodin and Felix Mendelssohn. Religion events from around the Washington area 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z After studying materials sciences and engineering at Carnegie Mellon, Brian Mendelssohn took a job as a metals commodity trader in Pittsburgh. How One Pittsburgh Man Became A Successful Renovator, Flipper, And Business Owner During The Recession 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The March 22 concert will feature Mozart’s Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285, and Piano Quartet in G Minor, K. 478, as well as Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words” for cello and piano, Op. Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Adds a Spring Series 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The Windsbach Boys Choir will perform a program made up mostly of German a cappella sacred and secular music written by Bach, Mendelssohn, Bruckner, Schütz and German folk songs. Religion events from around the Washington area Jews were purged from orchestras and the work of Jewish composers such as Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer was banned. "The Death of Klinghoffer": Let the Show Go On 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Of particular note is the publication of the many alternative versions of the overtures and symphonies of Mendelssohn, revealing new insight into the composer's working methods. Christopher Hogwood obituary 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z At 31, just before the economy crashed, Mendelssohn took the plunge: He quit his day job to start his then one-man Botero Development. How One Pittsburgh Man Became A Successful Renovator, Flipper, And Business Owner During The Recession 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Every day on his bus ride to his job as a metals commodity trader, Mendelssohn would look at the rundown buildings. Forbes' Opportunity Cities: 19 Places Where It May Be Easier To Make Your Mark 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Classical music concert, participants from the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute in small chamber ensembles perform works by Schubert, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Shostakovich and Barber. D.C. community calendar, July 10-17, 2014 "Mendelssohn's signatures are a work of art in themselves," Ward Jones said. 'Lost' Mendelssohn song unearthed 2014-05-06T07:30:59Z Bach and Mendelssohn and selections from the American Songbook. Religion events from around the D.C. area 2013-12-28T02:46:33Z Mendelssohn heard about those Section 8 houses through a neighbor, then approached the seller. How One Pittsburgh Man Became A Successful Renovator, Flipper, And Business Owner During The Recession 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z "I'm not going to walk down the aisle to Mendelssohn wearing white in a church and throw a bouquet and do the first dance," adds Soroff, columnist for the Improper Boston. The gay people against gay marriage 2013-06-10T23:20:10Z The composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, earned the honor of a Berlin street named after him in the 19th century. German Equality, Enforced in Names 2013-04-26T14:17:56Z Since then, its whereabouts were unknown until it was found in the papers of the current owner's grandfather, himself a musician and Mendelssohn enthusiast. 'Lost' Mendelssohn song unearthed 2014-05-06T07:30:59Z Soldiers fired guns stationed at Tower Bridge during the procession and a Royal Marines band played funeral marches by Beethoven, Chopin and Mendelssohn. London Pauses to Mourn Thatcher 2013-04-18T02:07:33Z Soldiers will fire guns stationed at Tower Bridge during the procession and a Royal Marines band will play funeral marches by composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin and Felix Mendelssohn. Global Figures Set to Mourn Thatcher 2013-04-17T07:51:56Z I was reminded of it recently with the news that a trove of Toscanini's possessions - from his Steinway piano to an autographed Mendelssohn score - are to be auctioned off by Sotheby's in London on Wednesday. City Room: Toscanini and Me: The West 69th Street Connection 2012-11-25T16:00:14Z In the end, a compromise was found by including the wife of Moses Mendelssohn, Fromet, in the name for the square. German Equality, Enforced in Names 2013-04-26T14:17:56Z A song written by German composer Mendelssohn has had its first public hearing since it went missing 140 years ago. 'Lost' Mendelssohn song unearthed 2014-05-06T07:30:59Z Porifera Inc. is a two-year-old company based in Hayward, Calif. Vice president of business development, Jeffrey Mendelssohn, said it has achieved a breakthrough in forward osmosis membranes by using carbon nanotubes. Desalination: Energy Hog No More? Part 1 2012-05-31T17:54:07Z Besides, he was a Roman Catholic, and that didn't please such prim persons as Mendelssohn and Hiller, not to mention his own fellow-countryman, Joseph Joachim. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z One consequence of the Mendelssohn movement was that many writers used their vernacular language besides or instead of Hebrew, or translated from one to the other. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Mendelssohn, an 18th-century philosopher, whose theories heralded the Jewish enlightenment, reflected the museum’s mission of tolerance and understanding and his name resonates internationally, museum officials said. German Equality, Enforced in Names 2013-04-26T14:17:56Z Mendelssohn wrote the privately commissioned piece, titled The Heart of Man is Like a Mine, in 1842. 'Lost' Mendelssohn song unearthed 2014-05-06T07:30:59Z So it was with Mendelssohn; the greatest musical triumph ever achieved, was the performance of the oratorio of Elijah, given at Birmingham, the work on which Mendelssohn's fame will rest. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Those, on the other hand, who call Liszt a creative genius should not omit to observe and state that his genius was qualitatively unlike the genius of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schumann. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z At the Jubilee commemoration of the society, 1893, Lord Kelvin recalled that Mendelssohn, Weber and Beethoven were the "gods" of the infant association. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z Nevertheless, the suggestion was rejected, because Moses Mendelssohn was not a woman. German Equality, Enforced in Names 2013-04-26T14:17:56Z Then he went to Leipzig, to his friend Mendelssohn, where in 1843-1844 he conducted a number of the Gewandhaus concerts and produced his oratorio. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z He was nine years in composing this oratorio; and notwithstanding the most flattering ovation, Mendelssohn's serene temperament was not moved to vanity or conceit. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z In musicianship Liszt had no contemporary who could pretend to tie his shoe-strings, with the possible exception of Felix Mendelssohn. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The Study of Mendelssohn In a complete course for a piano student should the study of Mendelssohn be included? Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z As the Adagio of Mendelssohn's concerto ended, a stern-faced man in plain evening-dress, sitting slightly apart from the others, said: "I do not care much for music, but this music I love." The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z He studied in Germany under Hauptmann and Mendelssohn, and on his return to England composed several oratorios and other pieces, none of which had permanent success. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Mendelssohn of course applauded, but the Queen laughingly told him, that she had been too frightened to sing well. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Concerning Liszt's Irrlichter and Gnomenreigen, he said: "I wish the inspired master had written more pieces like these, which are as perfect as any song without words by Mendelssohn." Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Pg 86 Mendelssohn is surely a composer who is not to be omitted. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z She played Chopin for him, Mendelssohn, Grieg and Chaminade; and she played them in a surprisingly scholarly fashion. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z The Chopin concertos now occupy the position, technically speaking, of the Hummel and Mendelssohn concertos. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Prince Albert and the Queen were ever warm patrons and friends of Mendelssohn. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z He found the latter devoid of religious sentiment, and in this verdict he was joined by none less than Mendelssohn. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Playing the "Spring Song" too Fast Should Mendelssohn's "Spring Song" be played in slow or fast time? Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Mendelssohn was his friend from boyhood, and aided him greatly with his suggestions, though it is doubtful whether Bennett ever studied with him. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z Because of his obviously romantic melodies he was definitely ranged with the most extravagant of the romantics, with Berlioz, Schumann, Liszt; but, as a matter of fact, he is formally closer to Mendelssohn. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z This was a very difficult task, for Mendelssohn was a great worker. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z It was a duet for two instruments, beginning with Mendelssohn's Chants sans Paroles and proceeding to a work of Liszt's. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The choral service terminated with the Wedding March of Mendelssohn, performed on the harmonium by Mr. Joseph Thumper with his accustomed skill. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Feb 3, 1872 2012-02-10T03:00:16.947Z It was through Mendelssohn's influence that he brought out Bach's music in London. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z The night I heard him he played the Mendelssohn concerto, and at the beginning of the slow movement his chanterelle broke. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Little was Mendelssohn prepared, either mentally or physically at this time, to bear the one great sorrow that overwhelmed this happy life, on which the sun of prosperity had ever shone. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise" and "Elijah"; Haydn's "Creation," Handel's "Messiah" and "Israel in Egypt"; she sang in them all. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z She turned to the piano: a light piece by Sullivan lay open before her, and a number of airs from Chopin, Schubert, and Mendelssohn were scattered loosely on the top one above the other. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z At the time of the opening of the story she had not made her d�but, and she did not appear in England until 1847, the year of Mendelssohn's death. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z As a finale, the assembled pupils sang a Dutch Bergmann's Gruss, "The Miner's Welcome," and one of Mendelssohn's delightful songs. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z To this great power of intellect, Moses Mendelssohn added a purity and dignity of character worthy of the old stoics. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z I enjoyed the service, Mendelssohn's 'Hymn of Praise,' Dean Stanley's sermon, and so on, very unusually. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z In Bremen, for example, I heard the Paulus of Mendelssohn given entirely by amateurs, and both in the choruses, and in the solos, the finish of the performance was perfect. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The romance of "Charles Auchester," which is really a memorial to Mendelssohn, the composer, was first published in England in 1853. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z By one of those splendid coincidences in which dreams are so fertile, a thicket of trees proved to be a pipe-organ, and began to blare a popular tune of Mr. Mendelssohn's. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z One of Moses Mendelssohn's daughters married Frederick Schlegel, and swerving from the religion in which both had been brought up, both became Roman Catholics. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z We gave 'Israel in Egypt' and Mendelssohn's 'Hymn of Praise.' Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z It is worth recording that Mendelssohn’s complete Midsummer Night’s Dream music is said to have been first played by Gung’l’s band. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z It is well known that Seraphael, its leading character, is the author's ideal of Mendelssohn, and that the romance was intended to be a memorial of him. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z She had chosen one of the less hackneyed of Mendelssohn's 'Songs without Words,' and when she had finished I thanked her heartily, while Miss Farington chimed in with more reserve. A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 2011-12-15T03:00:17.253Z George Mendelssohn the son of Joseph, was also a distinguished political writer and Professor in the University at Bonn. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z To the mass of music-loving people of this country, however, I believe that Mendelssohn requires no introduction. The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio "Elijah" 2011-12-06T03:00:26.413Z And Haydn, and Weber, and Schubert, and Mendelssohn! what a propaganda have they made for the Fatherland! Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z Mendelssohn had been dead but six years, and his name was still a household word in every English family. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z The piano in one of Mendelssohn's trios was quite charming—so sure and delicate. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z With such an array of intellectual ancestry, the Mendelssohn of our day came into the world at Hamburg, on the third of February,1809. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z It is fifty years since Mendelssohn's "Elijah" was first performed. The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio "Elijah" 2011-12-06T03:00:26.413Z Still, if we could have something other than Lohengrin and Mendelssohn I think I could face marriage with a little better heart. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z In youth he had musical ambitions, studied under Mendelssohn and Weinlig at Leipzig, under Loewe at Stettin, and afterwards at Vienna. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Mendelssohn's music is the music of the good taste that enjoys all the good things that have ever existed. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z It was not till some years after, that Mendelssohn completed the music to Shakspeare's great play. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z The Jubilee of this event provides a fitting opportunity for presenting a history of Mendelssohn's familiar oratorio. The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio "Elijah" 2011-12-06T03:00:26.413Z He became a member of the Protestant Church in 1805, and through his influence the whole Mendelssohn family became Christians. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z In the very year in which Mendelssohn's work appeared we notice among the younger generation a general revival of interest in the Hebrew, the mother-tongue of their race. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z The songs of Mozart and Mendelssohn are much better for early use than are those which are being published now. Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z Mendelssohn composed very rapidly, but he was cautious in giving his works to the public, until they thoroughly satisfied his judgment, the most critical to which they could be submitted. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Especially is this the case in regard to the numerous letters from Mendelssohn and his correspondents which are here made public for the first time. The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio "Elijah" 2011-12-06T03:00:26.413Z In this city, which through Moses Mendelssohn has become so celebrated, the Jewish community influenced many of its citizens in a remarkable manner, on account of their ability and intelligence. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z Mendelssohn emulated the plastic idealism of Plato and the divine hilarity of Socrates. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z |
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