2008-2009 Season
Mendelssohn Club invites you to see, hear, and feel the music!
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival
September 6 & 13, 2008, 2pm and 4pm each date, The Rotunda, University City
Co-production of (Urban) ECHO: Circle Told with the Leah Stein Dance Company, commissioning composer Pauline Oliveros. Singers will dance, dancers will sing.
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From Heaven on High - Popular Holiday Concerts
December 13, 2008, 4pm and 8pm, St. Paul's Chestnut Hill
Works by Bach, Mendelssohn and Gilchrist, plus carols with audience participation.
Anniversary Concert - Verdi Requiem
March 29, 2009, 8pm Verizon Hall
Celebrating Alan's Harler's first 20 years as Music Director and Mendelssohn Club's 135th season. Verdi's Requiem with international soloists and a commissioned work by Philadelphia favorite Jennifer Higdon, with the augmented Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Equality Forum
May 1, 2009, 8pm, Holy Trinity Church, Rittenhouse Square
Co-production with the Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus and Anna Crusis Women's Choir, featuring commissioned works by Cynthia Folio, Peter Hilliard, and Robert Maggio. Opening concert for the largest annual GLBT civil rights symposium and festival in the U.S.
Hidden City
Multiple performances in June 2009, Frankford Arsenal
Co-production with the Leah Stein Dance Company. Commission by composer David Lang, 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner. Presented by Peregrine Arts as part of Hidden City, a festival of site-based art celebrating the hidden places and histories of Philadelphia.
Accolades for
Recent Performances
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."
-- Chestnut Hill Local
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 Carmina Burana.
-Philadelphia Inquirer
The Mendelssohn Club sang Beethoven Sympothy No. 9 better than ever, and with a clarity that often evades large choral ensembles.
-The Saratogian