What Cecil B. DeMille’s “Ten Commandments” was on the big screen, Felix Mendelssohn’s fiery oratorio “Elijah” is in the concert hall. Both boast large casts, an epic biblical saga, and all the drama ...

Mendelssohn’s musical reveals all of these facets through breathtaking drama and some of the most beautiful choral writing ever composed.” Mendelssohn’s Elijah was given its premiere in 1846 to an ...

During his tragically curtailed life, the 19th century German composer Felix Mendelssohn became adept at code switching. Mendelssohn was born Jewish, but his parents baptized him as Protestant while ...

The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh is bringing back its Global Choral Traditions series for a second season, inviting the public to explore rich traditions of global choral music with local artists, ...

Grammy Award nominations announced Tuesday saw Pittsburgh musicians represented as usual. "Beethoven: Symphony No. 9," a collaboration by The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Mendelssohn Choir of ...

Gospel musician and educator Lonnie Norwood leads the Jan. 13 session of Global Choral Traditions. Early in the coronavirus pandemic, it became clear that indoor choral singing was among the riskiest ...

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh will perform Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 on Sept. 21 in Saint Vincent Basilica, Unity. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, under the direction of Manfred Honeck, performed George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” on Tuesday in the Saint Vincent Archabbey ...