{"id":232892,"date":"2026-05-15T17:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232892\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:30:41","slug":"orchestra-of-the-bronx-to-close-2025-26-season-with-june-7-performance-at-lehman-college-bronx-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232892\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchestra of the Bronx to close 2025-26 season with June 7 performance at Lehman College \u2013 Bronx Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orchestra of the Bronx<\/a> announced it will conclude its 2025-26 season with a performance of Felix Mendelssohn\u2019s \u201cSymphony No. 5\u201d and Johannes Brahms\u2019 \u201cViolin Concerto\u201d on Sunday, June 7, at 3 p.m., in the Lovinger Theater at Lehman College<\/a>, at 250 Bedford Park Blvd. W.<\/p>\n

This upcoming show, which will have free admission with no reservations required, reflects the Orchestra of the Bronx\u2019s mission, under the direction of founder and director Michael Spierman, to present stellar performances of music from the classical repertory.<\/p>\n

Mendelssohn composed Symphony No. 5, later renamed \u201cThe Reformation\u201d by his sister, in anticipation of the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession in 1830. The Augsburg Confession was a major event in the establishment of Protestant theology and the Lutheran Church.<\/p>\n

Mendelssohn underlined this connection by using Martin Luther\u2019s hymn \u201cEin feste burg ist unser Gott\u201d and a cadence called the \u201cDresden Amen.\u201d Ill health and a touring schedule delayed the completion of this work until 1832, when he conducted his first performance of it when he was 23 years old at the Singakademie in Berlin.<\/p>\n

The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, was the only violin concerto made by Brahms. It was dedicated to and premiered by his friend, violinist Joseph Joachim, on Jan. 1, 1879, at Gewandhaus in Leipzig. Joachim considered this music, as well as Mendelssohn\u2019s, to be one of the four great German violin concerti.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising, is Beethoven\u2019s.\u00a0 The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness,\u201d Joachim said. The richest, most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heart\u2019s jewel, is Mendelssohn\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orchestra of the Bronx resident concert master Urara Mogi will also serve as the soloist for the violin concerto. In addition to also serving as the resident concert master for the Bronx Opera<\/a>, Mogi has immense experience as a soloist and orchestra member in ensembles across the United States, Canada and her home country of Japan.<\/p>\n

She is the principal violin for the Manhattan Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, annually appears in that same role at the Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival and has also served as concert master for various other orchestras in the tri-state area, including Princeton Pro Musica<\/a>, the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra<\/a>, the Altoona Symphony Orchestra<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n

Mogi also serves as the artistic director of Colza concerts, a Japan-based chamber ensemble and concert series that introduces gifted young performers and introduces seldom-heard chamber music to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orchestra of the Bronx announced it will conclude its 2025-26 season with a performance of Felix Mendelssohn\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,24449,91370,9,24,63,4566,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-232892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-lehman-college","tag-lovinger-theater","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-orchestra-of-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}