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.

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Hundreds of singers and musicians will fill the stage at the Klein Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, Dec. 12, for Beethoven’s mammoth and jubilant Symphony No. 9 (often called “Choral” or “Ode to Joy”) ...

Even people who claim they “love the holidays” are probably at least agnostic about the scarcity of daylight this time of year. Yet for millennia, humans across cultures and around the world have ...

In August of 1819, Anton Schindler, Beethoven's friend, visited the composer one afternoon to find a typical late Beethovian scene. Chaos reigned. The composer's two servants had quit that morning, ...

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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 Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut is wrapping up its silver anniversary season with 'O Divine Music," a commissioned piece by composer Randol Alan Bass. The piece, which extols the glory of music, ...

Few who lived through the Vietnam War-era will ever forget Nick Ut's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph for the Associated Press of a 9-year-old girl, Kim Phúc, running toward the camera -- naked, ...

A quarter of a century ago, that Carole Ann Maxwell, DSM, director of choral and liturgical music at Fairfield University, founded the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut. The Mendelssohn choir sprang ...