Felix Mendelssohn News

LIFT Lab Live presents studio performances of solos and duets for socially distanced audiences of 10. NYTB first produced LIFT Lab Live in October and November 2020, providing emerging and established choreographers with a safe space to create and audiences with strict Covid protocols and a rare opportunity to enjoy live performance.

Bloomingdale School of Music will present a virtual community concert and spring benefit A Symphony of Bloomingdale: In the Key of Hope on Tuesday, April 13, 2020 at 7pm. The event will include songs from Rent and The Wizard of Oz, with performances by Alyssa Fox (Frozen, Wicked), Aisha Jackson (Frozen), and more.

Music Director and Roy and Lillie Cullen Chair, Andrés Orozco-Estrada returns to Houston in May to close out the 2020–21 Season with two magnificent Classical Series concerts featuring Mozart's Sinfonia concertante, K. 297b, E flat major and Piazzolla's Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (Four Seasons of Buenos Aires), May 7–9; and a program of instantly recognizable and famous overtures including Mozart's Don Giovanni, Beethoven's Egmont, Mendelssohn's The Hebrides, and more, May 14–16.  And, for the first time, Orozco-Estrada will conduct the livestream of the BBVA Family Series, May 15 at 11 a.m.

February 2020 was the last time the Australian String Quartet toured the country. As an organisation built for full-time touring, the COVID pandemic forced the company to redefine how it goes about celebrating string quartet music. To great acclaim, the group achieved this through commissioning, recording and streaming projects. 

Bloomingdale School of Music has announced a virtual community concert and spring benefit A Symphony of Bloomingdale: In the Key of Hope on Tuesday, April 13, 2020 at 7pm. A Symphony of Bloomingdale honors Erika S. Floreska, Bloomingdale School of Music Executive Director from 2014-2020.

The Royal Opera House will continue its #OurHouseToYourHouse programme, featuring online broadcasts that can be accessed by audiences around the world for just £3.  

In celebration on Women's History Month, Maplewood Division of Arts & Culture, South Orange Village and the South Orange Performing Arts Center have joined together to bring to the region WOMEN IN MUSIC, a chamber music concert showcasing the music of women composers.

New York Theatre Ballet will present the second installment of LIFT Lab Live, an in-house live performance series created in the fall, that provides emerging and established choreographers with a safe space to create and offers audiences a safe space to experience live music and live performances of new choreography.

Looking ahead to its 35th anniversary later this year, the Music Institute of Chicago Chorale, conducted by Daniel Wallenberg, welcomes guest musicians from around the world for its free virtual performance, How Can I Keep from Singing, which takes place Sunday, March 14 at 2 p.m.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra brings its first-ever all-online season—with near weekly concert streams distributed through its new streaming platform BSO NOW, November 2020-April 2021—to an end with four programs led by BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons, released each Thursday at noon, March 25–April 29, at www.bso.org/now.

Today (February 23) in live streaming: Stars in the House celebrates Black Male Excellence, Patrick Page takes on Shakespeare's villains, and more!

DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, announces its virtual programming lineup for January through March. Continuing in the same format as DACAMERA's Fall 2020 programming, which the The New Yorker described as “an online season that stands apart from the virtual crowd,' the Spring season will include streamed concerts, two performances highlighting its longstanding collaboration with the world-famous Menil Collection, premiere broadcast streams of archival concerts with new introductions and more. All virtual concerts are free with registration at dacamera.com. 

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has launched the first programs in its digital concert series, a first-of-its-kind in the orchestra's 141-year history.

Il progetto 'Vous permettez, Aznavour?', dedicato al celebre chansonnier francese, con la voce di Michelangelo Nari ('Sweeney Todd', 'Siddhartha', 'Sanremo Musical', 'Tutti insieme appassionatamente', 'L'ultima strega', 'La Bussola e il Cuore' con Amedeo Minghi), non si ferma, nonostante questo complicato periodo storico.

Boston Baroque has announced the release of an upcoming concert documentary film introducing the X-tet, Boston Baroque's new period string chamber ensemble. The virtual special will provide viewers with a look behind the scenes of a weeklong residency, giving an up-close view of the group's artistic process in preparing the inaugural performance of the X-tet, and featuring exclusive interviews with the musicians about their time working and growing together as an ensemble. 

Two prodigious composers who lived half a century apart are featured by the Utah Symphony string quartet in this week's online, 30-minute On Demand chamber concert stream.

Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota will present a live performance of “Women of Note,” its celebration of female artists and composers in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of women’s right to vote.

San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) launches the 2021 Digital Season on January 21 with George Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream, filmed on stage at the War Memorial Opera House in March of 2020.

Utah Symphony invites audiences to access the first full Masterworks online performance of music by German composers that reflect the tragedy of destruction and the triumph of music over grief and pain, and the Utah Symphony debut of Israeli guest conductor Asher Fisch.

CTM Classics is welcoming the Jasper String Quartet to its artist roster for North American representation. Jasper Chamber Concerts is dedicated to encouraging curiosity, community, and inclusivity through world-class chamber music performances.