<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/westmont-news/examining-mendelssohn-protestant-music.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>12/20/2023</pubDate><title>Examining Mendelssohn, Protestant Music</title><excerpt>For two decades, Siegwart ‘Zig’ Reichwald, Westmont’s Adams professor of music and worship, engrossed himself in the sacred music of German composer and performer Felix Mendelssohn. But when he came to his works written for the Berlin Cathedral in 1843-44, he was struck by how unusual they were compared to the rest of Mendelssohn’s musical creations.</excerpt><author>Scott Craig</author><image>
            
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