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2011-2012 Season at a Glance
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October 23 2011 – 4 PM
Shadyside Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh
December 2-4, 2011
Manfred Honeck, conducting the PSO at Heinz Hall
December 15-18, 2011
Marvin Hamlisch, conducting the PSO at Heinz Hall
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Manfred Honeck, conducting the PSO at Heinz Hall
March 11, 2012 – 3 PM
Third Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh
May 4 & 5, 2012
Manfred Honeck, conducting the PSO at Heinz Hall
May 16, 2012
Manfred Honeck, conducting the PSO at Rodef Shalom
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Music for the Spirit - May 16
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 The Mendelssohn Choir and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Manfred Honeck will present the annual community concert “Music for the Spirit” at Rodef Shalom on Wednesday, May 16, at 7:30 PM. The Music for the Spirit concert series was formed to celebrate the universal spiritual message of music over all religious traditions. This particular concert will feature works by Handel, Mendelssohn, Haydn, and more.
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Paris Festival - May 4 & 5
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 Join the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, led by Maestro Manfred Honeck, for a performance of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 130. This concert continues the PSO's Paris Festival: The City of Light, celebrating the music, art, and culture cultivated in Paris at the start of the 20th century. Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, and Ravel's Bolero and Piano Concerto in G Minor, performed by Lise de la Salle, will also be featured.
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Mozart & Copland: Choral Masters - March 25
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 The Mendelssohn Choir, conducted by Music Director Betsy Burleigh, will present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's unfinished Great Mass in C Minor at East Liberty Presbyterian Church. Written during 1782-83, it was purported to be Mozart's "work of thanksgiving" on the occasion of his marriage. The concert will also include a performance of Aaron Copland's In the Beginning. The performance will start with a pre-concert talk at 2:00 pm with Mildred Miller Posvar, famed mezzo-soprano. Ms. Posvar worked with Aaron Copland to record In the Beginning with the New England Conservatory Choir, under the baton of the famed choral director Lorna Cooke deVaron.
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Part of a large group? Groups of 10 or more will receive $10 off ticket prices. Contact David Nutt at (847)845-5729 for more details.
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Felix Festival - Handel's Messiah Sing-Along March 11
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 Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Third Presbyterian Church
5701 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15232-2799
Messiah in Lent? But of course! Even though we now associate the work with the Christmas season, Handel actually wrote it (like all his oratorios) for Lent. Handel was very active as an opera composer, but opera was too worldly for the time of penitence and reflection, and so the theaters would shut down during Lent. In response Handel composed oratorios, which were most frequently musical dramatizations of a biblical story, as a way to support himself and his fellow musicians for the six long weeks of Lent. These were then actually performed in the theaters, but without the extravagant trappings of staging and costumes. So Lent is actually the proper time to perform Messiah.
For our side-by-side sing-along we'll skip Part 1, which describes the Nativity, and will sing only Part 2, which tells the story of the crucifixion and the resurrection. But don't worry! The hit tune from Messiah, the "Hallelujah Chorus", is actually the ending of Part 2, so we will get to sing it.
Volkwein’s Music will provide Messiah scores for the sing-along. The cost per score will be $10.00. Please call 412-788-5900 Ext. 601 to place your order!
We look forward to singing with you!
-> Click to purchase tickets through ShowClix:
or call box office Customer Service at 1.888.71.TICKETS
(1.888.718.4253 from 9am-6pm Monday-Friday)
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Brahms' Ein deutsches Reqiuem - February 3-5
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The Mendelssohn Choir, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and soloists Thomas Hampson and Chen Reiss will perform Johannes Brahms' universal message of comfort, under the baton of Music Director Manfred Honeck. Sung in German, Brahms' work will move audiences with its dramatic and tender moments.
Hear Music Director of the Mendelssohn Choir, Betsy Burleigh, interviewed by PSO Resident Conductor Lawrence Loh about the musical and historical significance of the piece in a pre-concert talk beginning one hour before the concert on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The talk is free and open to all ticket holders. Also, beginning one hour before the concert on Friday and Saturday, the Junior Mendelssohn Choir will be performing in the Grand Lobby at Heinz Hall.
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Highmark Holiday Pops - December 15-18
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 We'll be celebrating the season with favorite carols and holiday music brought to you by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Principal Pops Conductor Marvin Hamlisch for the annual Highmark Holiday Pops! Jodi Benson, the voice of Disney’s Ariel, superstar vocalist Gary Mauer, and other special guests will be joining us in this spectacular holiday extravaganza!
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Handel's Messiah - December 2 - 4
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 The Mendelssohn Choir, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, PSO Music Director Manfred Honeck and renowned opera/theatre director Sam Helfrich join forces in a never-before-seen theatrical staging of Handel’s masterpiece. Honeck and the PSO musicians will be in the pit—and the soloists and Mendelssohn Choir will be fully costumed and performing from the stage. Helfrich and Honeck weave together a multi-layered reading highlighting not only the religious story, but also a more provocative and allegorical message as the story passes through the modern lens.
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Junior Mendelssohn 25th Anniversary Jubilee - November 26
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 The Junior Mendelssohn Jubilee: 25 Noteworthy Years will be held Saturday, November 26, 2011 at the Omni William Penn Hotel. Featuring a concert by the 2011-2012 Junior Mendelssohn Choir, the afternoon will conclude with 25 years of Junior Mendelssohn alumni joining the current Juniors in song along with all former Junior Mendelssohn Music Directors, Robert Page, Christine Jordanoff, and Christine Hestwood. A reception and dinner will follow.
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Music in a Great Space - October 23
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 The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, accompanied by Dr. Edward Alan Moore, East Liberty Presbyterian Church’s new Organist and Music Director, and conducted by Music Director Betsy Burleigh, will open the 2011-2012 performance season with Music in a Great Space, a concert of epic proportions. The program will feature Zoltán Kodály's Laudes organi, Francis Poulenc’s Litanies à la Vierge Noire, and Felix Mendelssohn's Heilig, among other choral selections, including several presented antiphonally.
The Music in a Great Space concert series is a memorial to Lydia Schulze Saul, made possible by a generous act of her son, William, upon his death in 1995. All proceeds from ticket sales are distributed to charitable causes through the Missions Committee of Shadyside Presbyterian Church.
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