Felix Mendelssohn News

Violinist Ronald Lantz and pianist Laura Kargul will present another of their popular Valentine's Day concerts at Woodfords Congregational Church in Portland on Sunday, February 17, at 2:00 p.m. This event will mark the seventh time the Lantz/Kargul Duo has celebrated the holiday of romance with a concert in the Portland area.

The National Ballet, under the guidance of its artistic director, the legendary Karen Kain, brought Ottawa a treat this week. Three short ballets, each with a vastly different feel, graced the stage of Southam Hall.

On Friday, February 1, 2019 digitally and Friday, February 15, 2019 physically, Deutsche Grammophon releasesMendelssohn featuring Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki with the acclaimed conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The album explores a pair of early Romantic masterpieces: Mendelssohn's Piano Concertos in G minor and D minor. Lisiecki complements the two concertos with a selection of some of Mendelssohn's most brilliant pieces for solo piano: the Variations sérieuses, the Rondo capriccioso and the “Venetian Boat Song” from Songs without Words.

For its 2019-2020 Subscription Series presented by Carnegie Hall, Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) and Principal Conductor Bernard Labadie will perform three bold concert programs, including Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony and pianist Beatrice Rana performing Bach keyboard concertos, a program dedicated entirely to works for double orchestra by Handel and Vivaldi, and a celebration of Beethoven's 250th birthday with four works displaying the composer's audacious genius.

MasterVoices, led by its Artistic Director Ted Sperling, presents Night Songs and Love Waltzes, an evening of vocal and piano works on Friday, March 1, 2019 at 8:00 PM at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. The ensemble's second concert of the 2018-2019 season will feature MasterVoices' 120 singers in a program including Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes and songs by other Romantic-era composers, Felix Mendelssohn, Clara and Robert Schumann, and Franz Schubert; Ricky Ian Gordon's Life Is Love, set to poems by Langston Hughes (new arrangements and a world premiere commissioned by MasterVoices); and the New York premiere of Ted Sperling's Night Waltzes, his arrangements of selections from Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) and new Music Director Jaime Martin announce sweeping programming for the 2019-20 Season that builds upon the Orchestra's illustrious legacy while blazing a path to its future.

For more than a century the world-renowned St. Olaf Choir has set a gold standard for choral singing, and the ensemble's 75 singers and conductor Anton Armstrong will travel to Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida from Thursday, Jan. 31, through Monday, Feb. 11, 2019 during its 2019 National Winter Tour. (Tickets are available online at stolaf.edu/tickets.)

Este 27 de enero, último domingo del mes, algunos de los más destacados concertistas de Bellas Artes demostrarán su talento y virtuosismo con sus respectivos instrumentos en una serie de conciertos que se llevarán a cabo en diferentes recintos dependientes del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) y espacios de la Ciudad de México.

Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, and Barry Hughson, Executive Director, today announced that the company returns to the National Arts Centre, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary season. The National Ballet will perform a triple bill featuring Justin Peck's Paz de la Jolla, George Balanchine's Apollo and Frederick Ashton's The Dream, onstage January 31 February 2, 2019. #NBOConTour

British conductor Michael Francis is known to San Diego concert goers as the music director of the city's Mainly Mozart Festival. Since taking the job four years ago he has embarked on an ambitious chronological survey of the music of the composer who inspired the festival's name. On this evening he traveled a few blocks north and half a musical century forward to appear as guest conductor of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra in a program of works by 'The Young Romantics.' The enthusiastic reaction he received after the performance may increase the chances he will be called on again in future Symphony seasons.

Adoration, faithfulness, longing...humanity's expressions of spiritual and worldly devotion have inspired choral composers since before the Renaissance and for sixty years, the Phoenix Chorale has honored many of these musical works in performance. On February 22-24, the Phoenix Chorale presents 'Pathways of Devotion,' led by Artistic Director Finalist Christopher Gabbitas.

Música para piano y violonchelo de grandes compositores como Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Rajmaninov, Maurice Ravel y Antonín Dvo?ák, entre otros, conforman el programa Grandes encores II, que podrá disfrutarse en dos importantes recintos del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura.

Concertmaster Joanna Frankel makes her solo debut with the Columbus Symphony, performing Beethoven's spiritual Violin Concerto. The epic Eroica Symphony completes this program devoted to the great German composer.

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Founding Artistic Director Steven Maler announced the cast of the second production of its 2018-19 Season: Birdy, adapted by Naomi Wallace from the novel by William Wharton, and directed by Steven Maler. The production runs February 27 through March 10 at the Carling-Sorenson Theater at Babson College in Wellesley.

Concert to Honor Tree of Life Synagogue Victims on PBS December 11

Concert to Honor Tree of Life Synagogue Victims on PBS December 11

On Saturday, December 15, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) Holiday POPS! concert celebrates the season with the Princeton High School Choir at 3 pm and 6 pm performances led by Music Director Rossen Milanov at Richardson Auditorium on Princeton University Campus. The festive program includes John Debney's suite from the movie Elf, Jerry Herman's "We Need a Little Christmas" from Mame (sung by choir member Danielle Danis), Felix Mendelssohn's Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride, a waltz by Johann Strauss Jr., and more. Of course, everyone is invited to join in as Maestro Milanov leads the carol sing-along!

Carnegie Hall celebrates the holiday season with a variety of festive concerts this December. On Friday, December 21 at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 22 at 8:00 p.m., Broadway's original Mary Poppins Ashley Brown rings in the holiday season with The New York Pops and Music Director Steven Reineke with Essential Voices USA offering two evenings of classic and contemporary carols including “Deck the Halls,” “Winter Wonderland,” and “I'll Be Home for Christmas.”

Camerata Pacifica continues its ambitious 'Why Beethoven?' project in collaboration with The Calder Quartet, who will perform Beethoven's String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135, the last of the composer's quartets.

Throughout history, perhaps no other composition has opened more hearts and minds to the glorious world of symphonic music than Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. On November 17th, under the baton of Maestro Christopher Confessore, the Brevard Symphony Orchestra brings the awe and exhilaration of this most epic of all symphonies to life. Concert begins at 8pm at the King Center For The Performing Arts In Melbourne.