Word: mendelssohns
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...program consists of Suite de Premier Ton by Louis-Nicolas. Clerambault; Sonata I by Paul Hindemith; Prelude and Fugue in A minor by S. J. Bach; Sonata III, Op. 65 by Felix Mendelssohn, and Concertante for Organ, Celesta, and Percussion by Daniel Pinkham. The latter number will be conducted by the composer...
...Ferris's recital will feature Suite du Premier Ton by Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Sonata 1 by Paul Hindemith, Prelude and Fugue in A Minor by J.S. Bach, Sonata 111, Opus 65 by Mendelssohn, and Concertante for Organ Celests, and Percussion (1963), by Daniel Pinkham. The final number will be conducted by the composer...
...Stuff. Shoehorned into green-and-gilt chairs at dime-sized tables, last week's audience snacked on ham sand wiches, strawberry sundaes, champagne, beer, pink "Pops punch" and Fiedler's musical buffet-everything from a glass-rattling Sousa march ("to get everybody's attention") to a Mendelssohn concerto, a Strauss waltz, a Weber overture and a splash of lushly orchestrated show tunes. For surprise encores Vaudevillian Fiedler uncorked a brassy, off Beatle I Want to Hold Your Hand complete with handclapping and nasal chorus of "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" from the string section, and a breezy Hello, Dolly...
...anticipation of Michael Flaksman's cello solo and Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, one might have been able to ignore the unrelenting repetition of a simple motif in the opening Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave), by Mendelssohn. By attempting deafness, one might not have noticed that for a long time the brass were a measure out of step with the rest of the orchestra, and were playing so loudly that they could not hear their own error. Masochistic charity might have led one to expect the cold woodwind instruments to be out of tune at the beginning of a concert...
...every concert: not Frank Martin, Roberto Gerhard, Alberto Ginastera, or the diaper works of Piston, Prokofiev, and Bartok; but Schoenberg, recent Stravinsky, our own Kirchner. Of course these works are too hard for the orchestra; but the attempts would be worth much more than regurgitations--and bad regurgitations--of Mendelssohn and Faure...