Mendelssohn Et Al April 26, 2009

The Reed College music department's spring concert celebrates the bicentenary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn in 1809. The Reed Orchestra, conducted by David Schiff, will play Mendelssohn's overture 'The Hebrides' and the Nocturne from the Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music; and a group of students in the chamber music program, coached by John Hubbard, will perform the Scherzo movement of his Octet. The orchestra will join the Reed Chorus, directed by Virginia Hancock, for the choruses from Part II of Elijah. The Collegium Musicum, also under Hancock's direction, will perform short works not only by Mendelssohn, but also by a variety of other composers with anniversaries in years ending '09 and '59.