Mendelssohn News

It has been said that the past is like a foreign country -- they do things differently there.

Tradition is ever so sweet in Christmas music, evoking memories of Christmases past even as the music works its charms anew.

There's an undeniable connection between Christmas and brass instruments. Part of that glow everyone associates with the holidays could just be the shine from the bells of trumpets and trombones.

SLEAFORD Music Club's final concert of 2009 sees a performance by the Litmus Trio.

Choral maestro Andre Thomas was, understandably, a little punchy earlier this week.

TAUNTON Choral Society is performing Elijah the oratorio by Mendelssohn at St James Church in Taunton on Saturday.

"Elijah" -- Saturday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m. at the Lutheran Church of Saint Andrew, 15300 New Hampshire Ave.

David Kim is like the St. Paul of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. The noted violin virtuoso is in town this weekend, performing the Mendelssohn concerto with the Omaha Symphony under guest conductor Christopher Seaman.

While much of the credit for reinventing the standard repertoire via the piano trio can go to Keith Jarrett , the pianist's muse is more about using such chestnuts as a launching point for his own self-probing and extended improvisations.

The EIU Symphony Orchestra rehearses in Dvorak Concert Hall Wendesday evening in preparation for its Mendelssohn concert.

While in Vienna Mozart wrote his K498 trio apparently dedicated to pianist Franziska Jacquin , a Mozart student.

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," ...