Mendelssohn News

Kip Winger, a rock star since the 1980s, has composed the classical piece "Ghosts," which the Tucson Symphony Orchestra will premiere this weekend in a MasterWorks performance.

This weekend offers options galore when it comes to live, local music in Tulare County, from classical to African gospel.

Prescott Fine Arts presents the concert, AN EVENING WITH FELIX M., on Saturday, November 21st at 7:30 pm.

Three years ago, the classical music world went bananas celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.

''A Musical Triptych,'' this Sunday's entry in an ongoing series of benefit recitals for the Pennsylvania Sinfonia, brings together a disparate trio of musicians, all of whom are connected in one way or another.

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Nobody doesn't love Mozart. Other composers wrote music that is more complex, more dramatic, perhaps even more exciting; but for pure simple love, Mozart's music reigns supreme.

As pianist and scholar Charles Rosen put it simply, Felix Mendelssohn "was the greatest prodigy the history of music has ever known." He was fully formed as a composer by age 16, when he wrote his Op.

Felix Mendelssohn gets credit for a fair number of things: He was one of the folks who more or less resurrected the music of Johann Sebastian Bach from the dustbin of history, but he also wrote a goodly number of piano scores and created the incidental music for Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - including the famous "Wedding March," ...

Returning for a third season, Vancouver Recital Society showcases the brightest young stars already appearing on the international stages.

Richmond Orchestra and Chorus Association begins its 24th season with a concert entitled "Classics in Threes" next Saturday.

We asked, after a review of the Mendelssohn birthday concert at the Naples Philharmonic Center on Oct.

AS HE HAS BEFORE, Dan Wyman attended the weekend's premiere performance of his latest San Jose Chamber Orchestra commission.

When discussing classical musical prodigies, two stand above the rest - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Felix Mendelssohn.

Pianist and composer Heather Schmidt was in Fairview last week for a performance on Friday evening and a performance anxiety workshop on Saturday morning.

Please note that they have an outstanding young artist performing, and that kids under 16 are admitted free.

THE award-winning Independent Ballet Wales presents a breathtaking version of Shakespearea s magical A Midsummer Nighta s Dream, at Ludlow Assembly Rooms on October 24.

Jeanne Lamon, music director. Aisslinn Nosky, violin soloist. To Sunday. Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor St.

Mendelssohn Choir of CT celebrates 25th year By A.J. O'CONNELL Hour Staff Writer A quarter of a century ago, that Carole Ann Maxwell, DSM, director of choral and liturgical music at Fairfield University, founded the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut.

Bollywood is coming to the Palace. Tonight, for one performance only, the world of the Bollywood dance routine - the swirling saris, the gyrating girls, the handsome couples who never quite kiss - will be invading the staid surroundings of Buckingham Palace.