Saturday, May 31

This is the first day of an all-new Art in the Park show, in Georgetown's beautiful San Gabriel park, this year for the first time in Georgetown directed by Lynette Wallace. Ms. Wallace hosts a juried show featuring a large contingent of the nation's finest artist-exhibitors, with scrumptious food from a range of vendors and fine wines to savor.

After 6pm, admission will be free for everyone to attend this year's performance by the Temple Symphony Orchestra of some of the most beloved works of our keynote composer, Felix Mendelssohn, in the Gazebo.

This will be the first of many concerts in Ellsworth Peterson's fourth series of music festivals, this year entitled Mendelssohn in Georgetown

8:00 P.M.

Mendelssohn in the Park Gazebo, San Gabriel Park

The Hebrides Overture (“Fingal's Cave”)
Symphony No. 4 in A Major (“Italian”)
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture and Incidental Music

Temple Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Fairlie, conductor

After the concert enjoy another brilliant fireworks show by the banks of the San Gabriel River,

Sunday, June 1

Lynette Wallace'sArt in the Park Show continues in San Gabriel Park, through 5 pm.

Thursday, June 5

2:00 P.M.

Mendelssohn Symposium I
Palace Theatre

Mendelssohn in Georgetown: An Introduction to the Festival
Ellsworth Peterson

Mendelssohn and Shakespeare (preliminary title)
Marian Kimber Wilson

6:30 P.M.

Reception for Donors
Southwestern University (location pending)

8:00 P.M.

A Concert of Chamber Music
Alma Thomas Theatre, Southwestern University

Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13
Shanghai Quartet

Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80
Miró Quartet

Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20
Shanghai and Miró Quartets

Friday, June 6

9:30 A.M.

Mendelssohn Symposium II
Caldwell-Carvey Foyer, Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Southwestern University

Felix, Fanny, and Joseph: The Mendelssohn-Eichendorff Songs
Susan Youens

Mutual Influences in the Lieder of Felix and Fanny*
R Larry Todd

3:00 P.M.

Lieder and Chamber Music
First United Methodist Church (location pending)

A Recital of Songs With and Without Words by Felix and Fanny
Virginia Dupuy, Bruce Cain and Dale Dietert

Piano Trio in D Minor by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Eri Lee Lam, Hai Zheng and Kiyoshi Tamagawa

5:30-8:00

Visit the shops around Georgetown's historic Courthouse Square on this First Friday and enjoy a meal at one of the city's fine restaurants.

8:30 P.M.

A Cathedral Evensong
Lois Perkins Chapel, Southwestern University

The choral music for this service of Evening Prayer was composed by Mendelssohn in English
for use in Anglican Worship. Included are:

Organ Sonata in A Major, Op. 65, No. 3
Magnificat, Op. 69, No. 1
Nunc dimittis, Op. 69, No. 3
Anthem: “Hear my prayer”
Prelude and Fugue in C Minor

John Schmidt, organ
Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble
Kenny Sheppard, conductor

Saturday, June 7

9:30 A.M.

Mendelssohn Symposium III
Caldwell-Carvey Foyer, Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Southwestern University

Mendelssohn and the Revival of Bach's Violin Solos
J. Michael Cooper

“A Christian Mendelssohn cannot be”:
Jewish and Protestant Influences on Mendelssohn's Sacred Music
Jeffrey Sposato

3:00 P.M.

A Recital of Chamber Music
First United Methodist Church (location pending)

Violin Sonata in F Minor, Op. 4
Cello Sonata in D Major, Op. 58
Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 66

Eri Lee Lam, violin
Hai Zheng, cello
Kiyoshi Tamagawa, piano

8:00 P.M.
Alma Thomas Theatre, Southwestern University

An Opera by Felix Mendelssohn

Son and Stranger
(performed in the English translation by Henry F. Chorley
of Felix Mendelssohn's one-act Liederspiel Heimkehr aus der Fremde)

Virginia Dupuy, the mother
Lynn Parr Mock, Lisbeth
Bruce Cain, Kauz, the traveling salesman

The Festival Chamber Orchestra
Hank Hammett, stage director

Sunday, June 8

8:30 and 11:00 A.M.
First United Methodist Church

As part of the service of worship
the choir of the church will perform Mendelssohn's Hymn, Op 96.

3:15 P.M.
Klett Center for the Performing Arts
Georgetown High School

Pre-concert Lecture: Some Thoughts on St. Paul
Ellsworth Peterson

4:00 P.M.

Festival Finale

St. Paul, the oratorio

Bruce Cain, baritone
Chorus Austin
San Gabriel Chorale
Mendelssohn Festival Orchestra
Kenny Sheppard, conductor