Tag: Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn Medal for Rachel Salamander – Culture
“Untrue as a keynote speaker,” August Strindberg once said maliciously about his fellow writer Björnson, and you’ll now think: “What a clumsy start to a keynote speech.” And you’re actually…
Speech by Rachel Salamander on receiving the Moses Mendelssohn Medal: I wanted to bring something new into the world – culture
It is in the nature of honors that they honor what has passed. I was lucky to grow up in the shadow of Auschwitz, in one of the best Germanys…
Munich: Mendelssohn afternoon with Julia Fischer – Munich
Originally, Christian Thielemann would have Concert with Julia Fischer and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden in the Isarphilharmonie. Would he have conducted with such composure? This is noticeable with David Afkham…
Moses Mendelssohn in an exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin. – Culture
When he arrived at the Hallesches Tor in the autumn of 1743, at the age of 14, coming from Dessau, his native town, he is said to have answered the…
Conductor John Eliot Gardiner at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
When Max Reinhardt, the co-founder of the Salzburg Festival, filmed “Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 1935, he naturally had Felix Mendelssohn’s music edited for the soundtrack. Since its composition a hundred…