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Mendelssohn over the Airwaves
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The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh is regularly featured on both radio and television. Performances of the Choir with the Pittsburgh Symphony are heard locally over WQED-FM (89.3) and distributed nationally by PRI.
This season's radio broadcasts include:
- FAURE: Requiem
Airdate - June 13, 2007 on WQED-FM -- Live simulcast Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts Faure's Requiem and Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony to complete his tenure as PSO Principal Guest Conductor. With Lucas Meachem, baritone, and Nicole Cabell, soprano. Broadcast live on Classical QED 89.3, or listen online at WQED.org
- BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 (previously recorded)
Airdate - June 15, 2008 Sir Andrew Davis, Conductor; Erin Wall, soprano; Meredith Arwady, contralto; Frank Lopardo, tenor; Alan Held, bass; Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast on Classical QED 89.3, or listen online at WQED.org
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HANDEL: Messiah (previously recorded) Airdate - June 22, 2008 Betsy Burleigh, conductor; Lisa Saffer, soprano; Margaret Lattimore, mezzo-soprano; Philippe Castagner, tenor; Sanford Sylvan, bass; Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast on Classical QED 89.3, or listen online at WQED.org
- THEOFANIDIS: The Here and Now (previously recorded)
Airdate - August 31, 2008 Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor; Jean-Philippe Collard, piano; Randall Scarlata, baritone; Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. [also on program: HONEGGER: Pacific 231, RAVEL: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand] Broadcast on Classical QED 89.3, or listen online at WQED.org
PITTSBURGH 250: The Mendelssohn Choir's 100th Anniversary Original Airdate - Thursday, April 3, 2008 - WQED-TV 's OnQ Pittsburgh's oldest continually operating performing arts group, the Mendelssohn Choir, celebrates its 100th anniversary with looks back from choir members, conductor emeritus Robert Page, and music director Betsy Burleigh. View OnQ on Demand
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| October 17 & 19 Derek Bermel:
The Good Life with the PSO & conductor Leonard Slatkin |
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| December 12 & 13 Handel: Messiah & Messiah Sing-Along |
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| December 17 - 21 Holiday Pops
with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra |
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