Word: mendelssohn
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...today's tight supply on arts funding from government, foundations and corporations, is virtually certain to eventually succeed. Already progress is visible: architects, for instance, abandoned the traditional steel-and-glass box for more human structures years ago. Some very recent classical composers, in the tradition of Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn, have made greater efforts to have their music evoke emotional responses than has been the case for much of this century. A few months ago, several leading rock artists unselfishly donated their time and talents to what were, for many their first political benefits; New York's MUSE (Musicians United...
...Carolina fades into Brooklyn blur, the shabby streets a "tangle of evening voices" and of men who act tough, talk fast, sing scat. Here Abeba, nicknamed the "Piano Girl" for the black and shiny spinet that her ambitious mother buys her, grows up to the accompaniment of Mozart and Mendelssohn. "We looking for you to make it big," her street-corner admirers tell...
...England Conservatory Youth Chamber Orchestra--works of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Mozart; Carolyn Fodor, soloist; Jordan Hall...
Ozawa showed considerable craft in selecting his programs. The Chinese love the violin, so there were two concertos, the Mozart Fifth in A Major and the Mendelssohn. Concertmaster Joseph Silverstein was the delicate, meticulous soloist in both. The Boston also used two Chinese virtuosos. Liu Dehai played a concerto for a lutelike instrument called the pipa. In the solos he all but turned into Orpheus...
Scotland's Western Isles are a striking blend of savage shores and pastoral serenity, made famous in music by Mendelssohn's Hebrides overture. If Mendelssohn were alive, he might now compose a Hebrides dirge...