Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X During his tragically curtailed life, the 19th century German composer Felix Mendelssohn became ...

The Old Testament Prophet Elijah faced down 400 prophets of Baal, called down fire from Heaven -- and also ran from the raving Queen Jezebel, despairing of his life. In a monumental collaboration ...

The English oratorio is a fascinating case study in nationalist music history. It was created and developed by a series of German transplants and visitors — Handel, then Haydn and finally Mendelssohn ...

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Baritone Jamal Sarikoki will retell the story of a man’s devotion, persecution and ascension in one of the greatest oratorios ever written. The concerts are dedicated to the late Steve Seidensticker.

One hundred years ago an American critic, bored to death at a performance of Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah, described it as “hopelessly, awfully, irremediably mid-Victorian.” We are less damning of ...

Talk about timeliness: right at the outset of Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah, the Old Testament prophet proclaims, “As God the Lord of Israel liveth, before whom I stand: There shall not be dew nor ...

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