Word: mendelssohn
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Trotting onto the stage wearing dark pants and a white, cossack-style shirt with frilly cuffs, Helfgott, who still takes a daily mix of antipsychotic drugs, smiled giddily as applause washed over him, then launched into a formidable program of Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt and Beethoven. He hummed, groaned and jabbered as he played, his head bent low over the keyboard, his fingers flying. At times he sang a melodic line instead of playing it. Midway through a Chopin Ballade he began picking nervously at his shirt and lost the melody altogether...
...concertmaster he used to be. The strings were together and the winds were together. If Laredo's choice of tempi was often less than daring, he made up for it by successfully turning the minuet into a scherzo. He seemed to want the fourth movement to sound like Mendelssohn's "Italian" symphony, with pleasing results...
...carols included classics like Felix Mendelssohn's "Ave Maria," as well as pieces commissioned for the service, most notably "Lo, there is light!", by Matthew Orlovich, a 26-year-old doctoral candidate at the University of Sydney...
...when a rock band composed of three adolescent boys draws crowds whose enthusiasm dwarfs that of those who routinely attend symphony concerts in the nation's sixth-largest city. Something is wrong with a society which places more value on a band titled "Immature," than on Bach partitas or Mendelssohn songs without words. Something is deeply wrong, and if our generation does not act soon to draw listeners to the nation's echoing, empty concert halls, we will lose irreplaceable works of beauty...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Will perform Debussy's La Damoiselle Elue with the Radcliffe Choral Society, Mendelssohn's Symphhony No. 3 "Scottish" and Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs with the Harvard Glee Club, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and Radcliffe Choral Society. Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m. Call 496-2222 for tickets and more information...