The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
Roberto Sierra’s Missa Latina
2009 Grantee
$45,000
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia received $45,000 to perform the regional premiere of Roberto Sierra’s Missa Latina at Girard College Chapel under the baton of Artistic Director Alan Harler. Joining them will be the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, and baritone Nathaniel Webster. Taller Puertorriqueno—a North Kensington organization dedicated to preserving, developing, and celebrating the arts of Puerto Rico, Latin America, and the Caribbean—will facilitate educational events with their constituents and Mr. Sierra.
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. www.mcchorus.org
Composer Roberto Sierra, no photo credit