The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh opens the 2023-2024 season with a performance of Brahms' soulful, yet hopeful Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. It is Brahms' longest composition, and while it uses sacred text, it is not a requiem in the traditional Latin sense, rather focusing on hope and comfort. The concert begins with an a cappella performance of Latvian composer...
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Handel’s Messiah
Join the Mendelssohn Choir and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as they perform Handel's beloved masterpiece, Messiah....
Highmark Holiday Pops
It's the most wonderful time of the year! The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra are feeling that gingerbread feeling during Pittsburgh's favorite holiday musical tradition: the Highmark Holiday Pops!...
Liszt’s Dante Symphony
The Mendelssohn Choir and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra present the Pittsburgh premiere of Franz Liszt's rarely-performed Dante Symphony. Liszt interprets Dante's Divine Comedy through music, as he takes us through the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
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Beethoven Symphony No. 9
The Mendelssohn Choir and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra present the perennial favorite, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. This performance celebrates the 200th anniversary of the premiere, which took place in Vienna in May 1824....