Meet the Music! “Felix, Flies, and Fireflies!” with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 2 p.m.
No charge • Reservations required • Family-friendly
Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 2 p.m.
No charge • Reservations required • Family-friendly
What would an orchestra of insects and tiny animals sound like? Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet for Strings, which he composed when he was 16 years old, has a magical scherzo, a musical party inspired by a vision of an orchestra of frogs, mosquitoes, flies, and crickets, and a bagpipe that blows soap bubbles. When dawn breaks, all of this vanishes. Between the ages of 11 and 14, Felix Mendelssohn wrote over 100 pieces of music — including piano pieces, chamber music, songs, choral pieces, symphonies, and operas. The 16-year-old Felix composed the magical Octet for Strings that is still one of the most beloved pieces of chamber music in the world today. Inspector Pulse, the world’s greatest and only private ear (investigator of musical mysteries), is inspired by the sound of a fly and soon discovers that he was not the first musician to feel the buzz.