"The Hidden City Festival's Battle Hymns might easily have joined the company of incomplete experimental adventures.... So many possible pitfalls, however, made the piece's success all the more heroic. Lang's score is a marvel even by his increasingly high standard. Stein's choreography consistently underscored the music's power.... Much of the piece's heroism had to do with the Mendelssohn Club.... The repetitiveness of Lang's music - often with music director Alan Harler conducting with his ear pressed to an electronic metronome - is affecting for audiences but hugely strenuous for the singers. Even with occasionally ragged moments, I couldn't respect this group enough."
Review of Battle Hymns performed June 13, 2009
from Philadelphia Inquirer

Our world-premiere performance of David Lang's battle hymns featured in the Fall 2009 issue of Chorus America's Voice! PDF of article.

"Music lives in the moment of performance, and it lives on as long as performers return to re-create those moments. That mystical idea floated over the Mendelssohn Club's performance of Verdi's Messa da Requiem Sunday at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall."
Review of Verdi Requiem + Higdon Premiere
from Philadelphia Inquirer,  March 31, 2009

"Not only did Harler, his singers, the Mendelssohn Brass and organist Michael Stairs offer a little bit of just about everything in the holiday mode, they did so with such perfect balance and cohesion that I found myself wondering why other music directors can't do the same. ."
Review of "From Heaven on High"
from the Chestnut Hill Local, December 2008

" Mendelssohn Club sang out against death and wars Saturday in an adventurous program at Girard College."
Review of On the Transmigration of Souls
from Philadelphia Inquirer,  November 5, 2007

Elijah
"Hill area singers superb in Mendelssohn's 'Elijah'," 
Review of Elijah
from Chestnut Hill Local, May 21, 2007 

An Evening of Passion
"In celebration of its 130th anniversary, the Mendelssohn Club accomplished what is, for many, the impossible: Its Sunday concert at the Kimmel Center gave you reason to respect Carl Orff's annoyingly popular."
Review of An Evening of Passion  March 28, 2004 concert
from The Philadelphia Inquirer

High Bridge
"What immediately strikes you about [ Charles Fussell's High Bridge ], premiered Saturday night at Philadelphia Cathedral by the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia to open its 130th season, is that it is a work of great substance.... the Mendelssohnians have gotten themselves, and the entire choral field, a major new work that deserves to be discovered and rediscovered."
Review of High Bridge  October 25, 2003 concert,
from The Philadelphia Inquirer