Category Archives: Choir

Highmark Holiday Pops

It's the most wonderful time of the year!  Snow, presents, candy canes - and the Highmark Holiday PopsThe Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra celebrate the season with conductor Daniel Meyer, vocalist Ashley Brown, and a certain special guest with a red suit and a sackful of presents!...

Handel’s Messiah

The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Osmo Vänskä, present a special one-night only performance of Handel's Messiah.  Composed in 1741, it was first performed in Dublin in April 1742.  Though it received a modest reaction from audiences at first, Messiah has now become one of the best-known and performed choral works....

Let My People Go! Free Preview

The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh presents a preview of our February 15 performance of Let My People Go! We will be singing selected movements from Let My People Go!, so spend your lunch hour with us! To purchase tickets to the February performance, visit the Let My People Go event page....

A Screening of The Times They Are A-Changin’

Relive the magic of the Mendelssohn Choir's January 2018 world premiere of Steve Hackman's The Times They Are A-Changin': The Words and Music of Bob Dylan, with a special, one-night only video screening of the entire performance at Mr. Smalls Theatre in Millvale....

A Concert for Peace and Unity

We honor the Tree of Life Synagogue victims with an open concert to help find comfort, strength, and solace through music, hope, and unity. The concert will be televised on Tuesday, December 11 at 8pm (EST) by WQED and available on most PBS stations nationwide. Taking place one month after the tragedy, this concert is free to the public, and all are invited to attend. Renowned...