Operatic voices reverberate throughout a quaint bar on North Mississippi Avenue — a typical Tuesday night for the musical regulars that frequent Mendelssohn’s, Portland’s one-of-a-kind classical music ...
The Mendelssohn String symphonies have been fairly well served on record, both quantitatively and quality-wise[1], but ultimately they never quite sounded like youthful Mendelssohnian masterworks but, ...
Just in time for Thanksgiving, Renee Montagne talks to music commentator Miles Hoffman about musical "thank yous." Hoffman is the violist of the American Chamber Players. There are lots of ways to say ...
The San Diego Symphony Orchestra has wrapped up the first month of the 2025-2026 Jacobs Masterworks Series. Irwin Jacobs himself was at the Saturday, October 18 concert at The Jacobs Music Center, and ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Tyshawn Sorey’s tribute to the Rothko Chapel, a vintage Pavarotti concert and a release from the Berlin Philharmonic are among our selections. Kim ...
The concept of this little festival is very simple: young musicians at the start of their professional lives gather on the Hebridean island off Scotland’s Argyll coast, to make music with highly ...
The trautonium is described here as “the instrument of a lone man”. In this case, one Oskar Sala, who spent his long musical life associated with this extraordinary, temperamental electronic beast.
PORTLAND, Ore (KPTV) – Mississippi Avenue in North Portland is now home to a classical music bar: Mendelssohn’s! Owned by a descendant of famed classical composer, Felix Mendelssohn, the bar offers a ...
With installment 51 in their Romantic Piano Concerto series, the Hyperion label has turned over yet another damp rock, and look what's popped up! Concertos by German composers Wilhelm Taubert and ...
There are lots of ways to say thank you today that don't include turkey or cranberry sauce. For example, there is music. (SOUNDBITE OF FELIX MENDELSSOHN ORATORIO, "ELIJAH") CHORUS: (Singing in German) ...