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...Goto ’11, brother of renowned violinist Midori Goto, will join the Bach Society Orchestra (BachSoc) this Sunday in a concert featuring the music of Strauss, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. Goto will solo in Brahms’ Violin Concerto. Touted by conductor Lorin Maazel as one of the finest young performers today, Goto has toured internationally over the past several years, playing with the London Symphony, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Shanghai Philharmonic, and the National Symphony in Washington, D.C. This semester, Goto has performed in Kansas, San Francisco, and Mexico City...
Elsewhere in Berlin, a Mozart requiem and concert for violin by Felix Mendelssohn will be performed by the philharmonic chamber orchestra. The mayor will accompany a ceremonial procession from the old city hall in Alexanderplatz in former East Berlin to the so-called new synagogue in the center of the city, where an exhibit of rare photographs of the event entitled "Fire! Anti-Jewish Terror on Kristallnacht" is being shown...
...night began with the lower string instruments. They performed a slow Andante introduction to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s “Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 107,” also known as the “Reformation,” before the rest of the orchestra joined them in the dramatic Allegro con fuoco section of the piece...
Musical director Matthew L. Tobey ’07 made another odd change to the play by choosing to integrate music of Felix Mendelssohn and various electric guitar and piano arrangements throughout the play. The choice was anachronistic, as the play is set in ancient Athens. The sporadic electric interludes, however, proved much worse as they were particularly intrusive to the play’s plot...
...concert opened with the brief “Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which Mendelssohn composed at the tender age of 17. The opening string passages sparkled and the HRO brass played the fanfare-like figures with unusual crispness. There were times in the piece when the playing of the low strings felt slightly heavy, but fortunately, those moments were only fleeting...