Mendelssohn Archives

Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society presents Isata Kanneh-Mason

by admin | Oct 6, 2023

Opening the La Jolla Music Society’s 2023-24 season with a winning program by pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason, who has gained international renown as a soloist and chamber musician, most recently serving as Artist in Residence with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra...

Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A

by admin | May 20, 2023

I am delighted to be acting as musicological cohost for this special Salon de Musiques concert celebrating Jewish composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The program offers both the familiar and the relatively unknown: Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Quartet No. 2...

CANCELED / Concert 7 / Salon de Musiques

by Kimberly Fox | Mar 19, 2020

Canceled as COVID-19 Precaution. Strauss, Schumann Chopin, Mendelssohn. Presented in a unique chamber music format. Join musicologist Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano as the Salon’s hostess. Providing informative live program notes. And moderating the conversation...

Prism IV / Bach, Mendelssohn, Beethoven – Danish String Quartet

by admin | Nov 18, 2019

The Danish String Quartet, one of the leading quartets of their generation, continues their three-year La Jolla Music Society residency with five concerts celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. The PRISM Project is a series of musical sets based on...