In his Hebrides Overture, begun on the journey, Mendelssohn created what Duke University music historian R. Larry Todd calls "romantic tone painting at its purest." The sea was not in a ...

Classical composer Felix Mendelssohn came to the Isle of Staffa in 1829 and wrote his famous overture, The Hebrides Opus 26, a year later. Popularly known as Fingal's Cave Overture, this music has ...

Mendelssohn’s piano concertos are not performed as often as those of his late classical and early romantic era peers, and one reason may be that they are not on the same level as the works of ...

The upcoming Aiken Civic Orchestra concert will feature American concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine.