Word: mendelssohn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...arranger and two lyricists set to work. From Mendelssohn's Ruy Bias Overture and the slow movement of the Violin Concerto in E Minor they pasted together a scene in an "opera" they billed as Marie Antoinette; from Liszt's Les Préludes, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 and Liebesträume they contrived another called My Country. Sample lyrics...
...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...
...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...