Word: mendelssohns
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Hollywood can do anything. Liszt had never even tried to write a serious opera. Mendelssohn had started one but never finished it. Hollywood fashioned two operas and signed their names to them...
...entries in the young composers contest at Detroit's Grinnell Foundation, most sounded like crudely rewritten Mendelssohn, Debussy, Mozart. Only two scores had both real originality and technical skill. The judges had no alternative-they awarded both first and second prize to Manhattan's 14-year-old Philippa Duke Schuyler, brightest young composer in the U.S. (TIME, July...
Conductor Jones was content to follow the precedent of Felix Mendelssohn, who in 1829 started a Bach revival in Germany. The Mass was sung with even more voices than the Bethlehem choir used last week. Said Ifor Jones: "Mendelssohn was an oratorio writer [with] large choruses and super-duper performances...
...Jordan Hall they opened the evening with Mendelssohn's Quartet in E-flat Major, which even the most fervent Romanticist must realize is among fervent Romanticist must realize is among Mendelssohn's lesser works. Written at an early age, (Opus 12), it could only have been picked of the Quartet because of its opportunities for technical virtuosity. In deed, Cellist Mischa Schneider, perhaps the most impressive of he four, makes the most of his opportunity. The second movement, a Canzonetta, provides him with a superlative vehicle for pizzicato and upper register proficiency. Violist Boris Kroyt gets his chance to highlight...
...unfortunate that such a chamber music group as the Budapest Quartet, in its only Boston appearance of the season, should, when restricted to three quartets, play those of Brahms and Mendelssohn as showpieces, rather than the far superior works of Haydn and Beethoven. Even with such a deficient program, however, the beauty of the group's tone and their remarkably close collaboration makes this concert one of the greatest pleasures of any musical season...