PERFORMANCE

Merkin Hall
What Makes it Great? - Mendelssohn's Octet

This series has really been a pleasure.  Our previous performances included Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata. In each case, the music is broken down and then performed by concert artists.

"Who was the greatest child prodigy in the history of Western music? Most people think of Mozart, but the greatest compositional wunderkind in the history of Western music was actually Mendelssohn. He wrote his spectacular, virtuosic Octet for Strings when he was only 16 years old. Rob Kapilow explores the mystery and mastery behind Mendelssohn's stunningly precocious teenage masterpiece."