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The Missoula Mendelssohn Club Celebrates 70 Years Of Singing

Michael Marsolek talks with Dean Peterson, Director of the Missoula Mendelssohn Club, and John Patterson, a tenor with the group for the past 31 years. Sunday, March 15 marks the group's seventieth annual spring concert, at 7:00 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall in the University of Montana-Missoula's School of Music. They'll share the stage with members of the Montana A Capella Society for a varied program of longtime favorites, from plainchant to jazz.

(Broadcast: "Front Row Center," 3/8/15. Listen Sunday mornings at 11:40, or via podcast.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEzsLQkkxbE&feature=player_detailpage

Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.
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