Mendelssohn'S Elijah News

 
Young Vocalist Lands Lead Role
Fenceviewer
Soloist Joshua Miller practices for the title role in the Bagaduce Chorale's upcoming production of Mendelssohn's “Elijah,” as accompanist Mary Cheyney Gould plays the piano and director Bronwyn Kortge looks on. Steve Fuller BLUE HILL — The last time ...


 
Farewell Concert: Rand Reeves says goodbye at Skidmore
The Saratogian
The popular conductor's swan song will be Felix Mendelssohn's “Elijah,” performed with accomplished area soloists and a 43-member professional orchestra at 3 pm Sunday in the Arthur Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College on North Broadway.


 
North Country Public Radio
Preview: "Elijah" in Watertown
North Country Public Radio
(05/03/12) Mendelssohn's greatest work, Elijah, will be performed this Sunday afternoon (3 pm) at Trinity Episcopal Church in Watertown. Todd Moe talks with conductor Richard Probert about the popular piece, which will include more than 60 singers, ...


 
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Weekend roundup: Annapolis Symphony, Concert Artists, Choral Arts
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Mendelssohn's "Elijah" once enjoyed enormous popularity, especially in Britain, much to the dismay of George Bernard Shaw, who castigated the composer's "despicable oratorio-mongering." The piece may not get quite as much exposure today, ...


 
Music director steps down after more than 20 years at Evanston church
Daily Northwestern
Lane: The first time that I directed a full orchestra in a full major work, which would have been Mendelssohn's “Elijah.” For me that was a tremendous achievement. We went on to do a lot of others, and they were probably done better, but the first one ...

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Baritone singer of immense mastery and influence
Irish Times
Besides recording many of Bach's cantatas, he was a sympathetic Christ in both that composer's Passions, an imposing Elijah in Mendelssohn and one of the original soloists in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. Britten in 1965 composed his Songs and ...

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Chorus celebrates diversity, peace with music
Oak Park Leaves
The program, led by longtime director Gerome Bell, includes an excerpt from Mendelssohn's “Elijah,” Handel's “And So Shall Your Light Shine,” and Bruckner's “Te Deum,” plus gospel music and Korean and African folk songs. The chorus was founded and ...

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