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...Part of the estate of Detroiter Louis Mendelssohn, who was treasurer of Fisher Body Co. before it was acquired...
Jenny Lind's friends included Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Schumann and Brahms. Her great friend Felix Mendelssohn loved to sit at his piano and explore her upper register. Frederic Chopin referred to her affectionately as "this Swede." She often rode along the trails of Wimbledon with the 78-year-old Duke of Wellington, who decorated his dotage with bright young ladies of the stage. The crowned potentates of the Continent competed for her friendship, from Prince Metternich of Austria to King Frederick William of Prussia. She was a close friend of England's Queen Victoria. Accordingly, when Jenny Lind died...
...cinema, and even a cross-eyed Mona Lisa. Approoutset with a Weillanously blasphemous parody of priate background music has been concocted by Robert Prince, who strikes the right note at the Rossini's Stabat Mater (which is, indeed, blasphemous even in the original), and later summons up remembrances or Mendelssohn's Spring Song and the concluding fanfare of Paramount newsreels...
Last night's was an odd concert. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra surpassed itself in many respects: it delivered a fully professional performance of Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony, under the direction of Michael Senturia. Yet an accumulation of minor failings and a stolidly unadventuresome program--Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Handel--revealed that the orchestra is, after all, only a remarkable organization of musical amateurs...
...concert also marked Michael Senturia's last regular concert in Sanders Theatre as director of the HRO. It was a brilliant farewell. While Kogan faced the orchestra feet together, like a conductor, Senturia spread his feet, hunched his shoulders, and went at Mendelssohn's Fourth Symphony like a boxer. An incredibly sharp attack started the symphony; the strings, warmed up, sounded as one. Senturia shifted tempi with assurance when the increased excitement demanded change. In the middle movements, although the fourth horn had problems, the woodwind solos over a string obbligato were exceptionally good for the HRO. Senturia took...