Word: mendelssohn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ridgefield, Conn, high school, he led his orchestra, proud, gay and beaming, through a typical "pop" concert program that his concert and radio audiences seldom hear him play. While kids and grown-ups sat enthralled, he gave them Saint-Saëns' bone-rattling Danse Macabre; he made Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony glow with Italian sunlight, Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun shimmer sensually. By the time he had sailed through one of his own light favorites, Waldteufel's Skaters' Waltz, the audience could not let him go without more. Even though he despises encores...
...Mendelssohns' silver wedding anniversary, and their 20-year-old son Felix had put aside ideas for his third ("Scotch") symphony to fashion a little drawing-room-sized operetta for the happy occasion. It was to be sung by the Mendelssohn daughters, Fanny and Rebecka, two friends of the family, and Fanny's husband, Painter Wilhelm Hensel. Since Hensel had no ear for music, Felix had given him only one note in a trio. When the great day came, wrote one of the more musical friends, Memoirist Eduard Devrient, "[Hensel was] not able to catch the note, though...
Last week, Manhattan's little Lemonade Opera (TIME, Sept. 8, 1947 et seq.) gave Felix Mendelssohn's 120-year-old Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde (The Return from Abroad) a U.S. performance-but made no great impression with it. In fact, after three years of applauding the Lemonaders' fine selection of strange fruit, most listeners found Die Heimkehr (now titled The Stranger) a sorry piece of citrus indeed...
First they heard Beethoven's noble and powerful "Archduke" trio-a perfectionist's performance, marred only slightly by an accidentally turned microphone and the nearby snort of commuter trains. By week's end, when the three had got through their program of Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Ravel (in trios, duos and solos), they had Chicago in the palms of their hands...
...Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 (the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Mendelssohn's trip to Scotland was almost as happy musically as his tour to Italy, which produced Symphony No. 4; Rodzinski here gives the "Scotch" a good piping. Recording: fair...