Operatic voices reverberate throughout a quaint bar on North Mississippi Avenue — a typical Tuesday night for the musical regulars that frequent Mendelssohn’s, Portland’s one-of-a-kind classical music ...

Until a few years ago—a short time in terms of music history—Felix Mendelssohn had the dubious distinction of being the only major repertory composer whose reputation had been in continuous decline ...

A new digital station plays only music written by women. Stephen Moss finds treasures as well as tedium, but wishes Scala’s classical channel could be bolder At 10am last Thursday, Women Composers ...

When I was a lad, not yet in my teens, I made my debut on stage, playing the part of Bottom the weaver in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We didn’t put on the whole thing, just the final act, ...

PORTLAND, Ore (KPTV) – Mississippi Avenue in North Portland is now home to a classical music bar: Mendelssohn’s! Owned by a descendant of famed classical composer, Felix Mendelssohn, the bar offers a ...

Mendelssohn visited Scotland in 1829 when he was just 20 years of age. He didn’t care for the local music, but his visit there at the start of his celebrated "Grand Tour" of Europe resulted in two of ...

The Mendelssohn String symphonies have been fairly well served on record, both quantitatively and quality-wise[1], but ultimately they never quite sounded like youthful Mendelssohnian masterworks but, ...

The concept of this little festival is very simple: young musicians at the start of their professional lives gather on the Hebridean island off Scotland’s Argyll coast, to make music with highly ...

That Mendelssohn wrote five symphonies is widely known, though I'd wager that 99% of listeners only know 40% of them. Begin with the rarely-played Symphony No. 1, written when Mendelssohn was 14.