“I didn’t know who the composer was, but I thought it sounded like Felix Mendelssohn. We had just played his Octet, so I kind of had him on my mind. And it definitely sounded like that period.

The concert is the final performance of Daytona Solisti’s 2025 Winter Festival celebrating the group’s 20th anniversary.

Poetry Out Loud, presented in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, brings some of ...

The program features works by Clara Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Amy Beach. The performance will take place 3 p.m. March 2 at the Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts in Brainerd.

Felix Mendelssohn originally wrote the melody for an 1840 cantata commemorating Gutenberg’s printing press, and declared that the “soldier-like” tune would never be suited to a sacred text.

Mendelssohn is one of the 'Sunshine Composers' who, like Rossini and Saint-Saëns, wrote effortless, life-enhancing, optimistic music. 'Felix' is the Latin for 'happy' an auspicious choice for it ...

Next Saturday, the Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) will host their fourth concert of the season, “Landscapes,” with guest conductor Matthew Poon and acclaimed guzheng player Lina Cao. Poon is in his second ...

She was born into a musical family – her mother taught her to play the piano and her brother was the composer Felix Mendelssohn. Fanny was such a brilliant pianist that at the age of 13 she could play ...

Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49, was written in 1839. Along with the famous Octet it is one of his most popular chamber works. When fellow-composer Robert Schumann reviewed ...

Pianist and early keyboard specialist Olga Pashchenko celebrates the piano music of siblings Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn in ...