Works commissioned by Mendelssohn Club
Dedicated to the ongoing vitality of the choral art, Mendelssohn Club, under Music Director Alan Harler, has commissioned and premiered 43 new works since 1990. This commitment has earned Mendelssohn Club an ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming.
| 2009 | David Lang | battle hymns text inspired by writings by Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Foster and Sullivan Ballou, a Civil War soldier |
| 2009 | Robert Maggio Cynthia Folio Peter Hilliard |
Into the Light I, Too, Can Sing a Dream Consider Krakatau Co-commissioned with Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus and Ana Crusis Choir |
| 2009 | Jennifer Higdon | On the Death of the Righteous text by John Donne written to be paired with Verdi Requiem |
| 2008 | Anthony Mosakowski | Resonet in laudibus |
| 2008 | Pauline Oliveros | Urban ECHO: Circle Told |
2008 |
Maurice Wright |
Vox Humana |
2007 |
Donald |
Caído se la ha un Clavel / A Carnation Has Fallen |
2006 |
Donald |
little tree |
2006 |
Jan Krzywicki |
Fortuna |
2006 |
Andrea Clearfield |
The Golem Psalms |
2005 |
Donald |
A New Song |
2005 |
Kim D. Sherman |
The Happiest and Unhappiest of Men |
2004 |
Donald |
Agnus Dei |
2004 |
Jay Krush |
Fanfare Felix |
2003 |
Donald |
Billings with Brass |
2003 |
Charles Fussell |
High Bridge |
2002 |
Donald |
Love Came Down at Christmas |
2001 |
Donald |
Memento mori |
1999 |
Donald |
Ite missa est |
1999 |
Alice Parker |
Sing Now of Peace |
1999 |
Jay Krush |
A Fanfare for the Chorus |
1998 |
James Primosch |
Fire-Memory/River-Memory |
1996 |
Donald |
Songs of Sweet Accord |
1996 |
Roberto Sierra |
Lux Aeterna |
1995 |
Donald |
Shepherd |
1995 |
Jan Krzywicki |
Lute Music |
1995 |
Shui-Lung Ma |
America, Our Home |
1995 |
Jonathan B. Holland |
Symphony (of Light) |
1995 |
Robert Moran |
Winni ille Pu |
1994 |
Kim D. Sherman |
A Winter Solstice Ritual |
1994 |
Cynthia Folio |
Touch the Angel’s Hand |
1994 |
Robert Stern |
Returning the Song |
1993 |
Charles Fussell |
Invocation |
1993 |
Ricky Ian Gordon |
Towards Independence |
1992 |
Jack Délano |
La Rosa y el Colibrí |
1992 |
Charles Fussell |
Specimen Days |
1991 |
Jan Krzywicki |
Poem |
1991 |
Byung Chul Choi |
The Apostle Song |
1991 |
Robert Moran |
Agnus Dei and Ite missa est |
1990 |
Osvaldo Golijov |
Cantata de los Inocentes |
1990 |
Robert Moran |
Requiem: Chant du Cygne |
Composers for 2008-2009 Season
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David Lang |
Pauline Oliveros |
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Cynthia Folio |
Jennifer Higdon |
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Robert Maggio |
Peter Hilliard |

Don St. Pierre, Composer-in-Residence





