Word: mendelssohn
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...perfect opportunity to practice one's concert etiquette in Symphony Hall came last Friday at the Handel & Haydn Society's concert "Mendelssohn: The Great Romantic." The Handel & Haydn Society prides itself on being the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the country. They practice something called "historically informed performance," which means they use instruments designed in and techniques from the period the music was composed in. For the average audience member, all this means is that the flutes and clarinets are brown, the trumpets are longer, and the piano soloist has the chance to play show-and-tell with...
...beautiful brown fortepiano came with four well-dressed movers who brought the instrument onto center stage as the soloist, British pianist David Owen Norris, explained that the fortepiano was built in Mendelssohn's lifetime (1823) and was thus better suited to the composer's little tricks and idiosyncrasies...
...pianist. It is fun to hear, and maybe even more fun to watch it performed. Perhaps Norris was a little too virtuosic in the concerto: while the notes were technically accurate, it was hard to make sense of the quick and dense passages, hard to appreciate Mendelssohn's skill and talent. All those music teachers were right: faster is not always better...
...dose of high culture needn't mean a trek to the Wang Center or Symphony Hall. The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, directed by Adam Grossman, is opening its 1998-99 season tonight with a concert of music by Moussorgsky, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Barber--the exciting "Night on Bald Mountain" is one of the featured works. 3 p.m. Agassiz School, corner of Oxford and Sacramento St., 547-9477, FREE...
...many brain cells last night. Make it up to yourself by helping out a good cause. Philips Brooks House Association's Chinatown Committee is holding a Chinatown Benefit Concert with performances by Albert Pan (cello), Andrew Park (piano) and Susan Koo (violin). The three will play works by Mendelssohn, Ravel, Beethoven and Brahms. It'll be one of the few things you do this weekend that you'll be able to tell your mom about. 8 p.m., Paine Hall...