Recent Reviews

All reviews are reprinted here by permission, as detailed on each review page.

The following list contains links to reviews of concerts produced by Mendelssohn Club.

• Star of Wonder "The Mendelssohn Club's annual visit to St. Paul's in Chestnut Hill was a thrilling triumph...A choir of exemplary power and peerless delicacy...under Harler's golden touch." Review from the Chestnut Hill Local of the December 15, 2007 holiday program, which included Kodaly's Missa Brevis.

• War protest through choral music "The Mendelssohn Club sang out against death and wars Saturday in an adventurous program at Girard College." Review from Philadelphia Inquirer,  November 5, 2007

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

• An Evening of Passion  Mendelssohn Club's 130th Anniversary Concert, the music of Orff, Bartok, and Krush. Review of the March 28, 2004 concert, from The Philadelphia Inquirer

• High Bridge  the music of Fussell, Vaughn Williams, and Marshall. Review of the October 25, 2003 concert, from The Philadelphia Inquirer

• Krzysztof Penderecki St. Luke Passion Review of April 6, 2000 performance of the St. Luke Passion in The Philadelphia Inquirer

• Beethoven, Merryman, St. Pierre  Review of October 23, 1999, concert from The Philadelphia Inquirer.

• Verdi Requiem  March 14, 1999 The Philadelphia Inquirer

The list below contains links to reviews of concerts that Mendelssohn Club performed as part of the Philadelphia Orchestra's season.

• Beethoven Ninth Symphony performance August 1, 2007 with Philadelphia Orchestra at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY; reviewed in the Saratogian

• Winter Wonderland, December 11 - 13, 2003, reviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, December 12, 2003

• Beethoven Ninth Symphony performance August 10, 2002 with Philadelphia Orchestra at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY; reviewed in the Saratogian

• Orff Carmina Burana performance with Philadelphia Orchestra at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, reviewed in the Glens Falls (NY) Post Star

• Borodin Polovtsian Dances, Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky with Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Music Center, July 20, 2000, reviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer

• Bernstein Chichester Psalms and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"); in the Times-Union, Albany NY, August 2, 1999

• Orff Carmina Burana and Bernstein Chichester Psalms at Mann Music Center, July 22, 1999 in the Philadelphia Inquirer