At Friday’s first performance of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s “Mendelssohn Taking Flight” concert, guest conductor Alexandrea Arrieche failed to note that the order of the program had been ...

How can you get your cultural fix when many arts institutions remain closed? Our writers offer suggestions for what to listen to and watch. Jonathan Keates’s “Messiah: The Composition and Afterlife of ...

At Buckingham Palace in 1842, the German composer Felix Mendelssohn found himself confessing to piracy. Queen Victoria, a great admirer of his music, announced her intention to sing her favorite of ...

Commentator Rob Kapilow unfolds the opening, fugue-like layers of Felix Mendelssohn's Octet for strings, revealing the most fantastic 40 seconds... Felix Mendelssohn's Genius In 40 Seconds In our ...

The authentification of the portrait F. M. B. results from a comparison of the work with similar paintings of the same period (e.g. H. Vernet). The date of the portrait is April/May 1825; the composer ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The fourth event in the 2008-2009 Cultural Corner Concert and Lecture Series is 3 p.m., Sunday, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana State University Colleges of Arts and Architecture and Letters and Science will join ...

The New York Philharmonic under Matthias Pintscher brought dramatic urgency to “Pelleas und Melisande” in commemoration of the composer’s 150th birthday. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim How can you get ...