The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
2008 Premiere Recording Grantee
$25,000
The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia was awarded $25,000 to produce a recording for innova featuring The Golem Psalms by Andrea Clearfield and Fire-memory/River-memory by James Primosch. Guest artists: Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and Sanford Sylvan, baritone
One of Philadelphia’s oldest avocational choruses, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia provides audiences with innovative programming that embraces the finest choral music of many cultures, traditions, periods and styles, including commissions of new choral works. Founded in 1874, the Mendelssohn Club’s rich musical history includes the American premiere of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and the Philadelphia premieres of Brahms’s Ein Deutches Requiem and Britten’s War Requiem. http://www.mcchorus.org/
Andrea Clearfield, photo by Catherine Hennessey