Program Notes

Program Notes Writer Michael Moore has served as Mendelssohn Chorus's program editor since 1988. His program notes have been reprinted by such organizations as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony, the Berkshire Music Festival, Britain’s Windsor Festival, Temple University, the University of Delaware, Emory University and Haverford College, and by choruses across the country. He has also written liner notes for the 2008 recording of Charles Fussell’s Wilde Symphony, released by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. A member of the bass section, Michael has sung with Mendelssohn Chorus since 1985.
- February 17, 2024 Love, Loss, Longing
- December 9, 2023 A Feast of Carols
- October 14, 2023 We Reply to Violence
- May 6, 2023 A Light Has Dawned
- March 4, 2023 We are Waves
- December 10, 2022 A Feast of Carols
- October 15, 2022 This Love Between Us
- May 15, 2022 Beyond the Binary
- March 17 & 19, 2022 Our Story is Not Over
- December 11, 2021 A Feast of Carols
- March 7, 2020 Departures: Beethoven Mass in C and Choral Fantasy
- December 14, 2019 A Feast of Carols
- October 27, 2019 All-Night Vigil
- June 28, 2019 Water Passion after St. Matthew
- February 23, 2019 Deliver All Souls
- December 8, 2018 A Feast of Carols
- November 3, 2018 American Stories: I Believe
- March 18, 2018 Beethoven/Shaw
- December 9, 2017 A Feast of Carols
- October 21, 2017 Voice of a War
- April 29, 2017 Honegger’s “King David”
- February 26, 2017 Big Sing: American Stories
- December 10, 2016 A Feast of Carols
- March 5, 2016 Eastern Voices
- December 12, 2015 A Feast of Carols 2015
- June 27, 2015 Beginnings…
- June 27, 2015 TURBINE
- February 8, 2015 St. Matthew Passion
- December 13, 2014 A Feast of Carols 2014
- October 26, 2014 BiG SING 2014
- April 26, 2014 Anthracite Fields
- February 23, 2014 The Sound of Spirit: Pärt/Haydn
- December 14, 2013 A Feast of Carols
- October 25, 2013 Kimmel Center Organ Concert
- May 11 & 19, 2013 Haydn’s The Creation
- February 23 & 24, 2013 Beethoven and Gill
- December 9 & 15, 2012 Angels from on High
- October 21, 2012 Trinity: Moran and Bruckner
- April 29, 2012 RITUALS: East/West
- February 12, 2012 Unfinished Masterpieces
- December 8 & 10, 2011 Golden Voices of the East
- October 22, 2011 Northern Lights and Mystical Masterpieces
- February 27, 2011 the audience inCHOIRing
- December 11, 2010 A Feast of Carols 2010
- October 24, 2010 BIGSING//Brahms
- April 24, 2010 Missa Latina pro pace
- December 12, 2009 A Feast of Carols
- October 17, 2009 rewind//PLAY//fastforward
- March 29, 2009 Verdi Requiem + Higdon Premiere
- December 13, 2008 From Heaven on High
- March 8, 2008 Honegger King David
- November 3, 2007 On the Transmigration of Souls
- April 21, 2007 Mendelssohn Elijah
- December 16, 2006 Respighi Laud to the Nativity
- November 17 & 18, 2006 Leah Stein’s Carmina Burana
- May 7, 2006 Clearfield The Golem Psalms Bloch Sacred Service Avodath Hakodesh
- December, 2005 Hancock, Paulus, St. Pierre, Rudolph, Whitacre
- October 5, 2005 Beethoven, Sherman, Schubert, Cherubini
- December 18, 2004 A Feast of Carols
- October 30, 2004 Mozart’s Wedding Gift Mozart, St. Pierre, Monk
- March 28, 2004 Carmina Burana and Cantata Profan Krush, Bartók, Orff
- October 25, 2003 High Bridge Fussell, Vaughan Williams, Marshall
- May 3, 2003 War and Peace Fussell, Boatrite, Haydn
- March 8, 2003 Voices of the Last Seal Palestrina, Bruckner, Moran
- December 13 & 14, 2002 Love Came Down at Christmas
- October 19, 2002 Touch the Angel’s Hand
- April 6, 2002 Krzysztof Penderecki St. Luke Passion
- December 14 & 15, 2001 What Sweeter Music: An English Christmas
- October 21, 2001 Schoenberg A Survivor From Warsaw Brahms A German Requiem
- October 29, 2000 English Giants
- March 26, 2000 Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart
- October 23, 1999 Beethoven, Merryman, St. Pierre
- May 1, 1999 A Singing World
- March 14, 1999 Verdi Requiem
- October 24, 1998 Handel Israel in Egypt
- December 13 & 14, 1997 A Feast of Carols
- October 18, 1997 Music from the French Cathedral
- July 2, 1997 Honegger King David Poulenc Gloria
- May 11, 1997 Psalms and Songs
- March 9, 1997 Mendelssohn Elijah
- December 1996 Celestial Seasons
- May 6, 1995 The Forgotten Generation