Monthly Archives: March 2019

It is with heavy hearts and great sadness that we write to inform you that Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh (MCP) bass Samuel P. Harbison III passed away on March 26.

Sam joined the MCP in 2008, during the tenure of former Music Director Betsy Burleigh.  He had always loved music and the arts, but it was during his “second mid-life crisis,” as his beloved...

The Mendelssohn Choir descended to the depths of hell and ascended to the highest heavens on March 8 & 10 during the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO)'s performance of Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, under the baton of PSO Music Director Manfred Honeck.  The MCP demonstrated its trademark versatility: at one moment peasants frolicking in a field, then in another moment a chorus of demons, and in still another...