A Funeral Mass for Mozart
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| Location: Heinz Hall |
| Friday, December 4, 2009 at 8:00 PM | | Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 8:00 PM | | Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 2:30 PM |
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This concert is part of these Subscription Series:
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Program |
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Ludwig van Beethoven:
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Overture to Coriolan
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Walter Braunfels:
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Te Deum Part III
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
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Requiem
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About This Performance
Music Director, Manfred Honeck, presents his personal version of Mozart’s Requiem where he imagines what the Mass of Mozart’s funeral could have been like. The performance features a dramatic and theatrical treatment, including church bells, Gregorian Chant and readings from Mozart’s letters to his father and passages from the Bible. The setting is Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral at the time of Mozart’s death. The all-star cast includes John Lithgow, narrator.
Come early to Heinz Hall to enjoy a display of Mozart’s life provided by the Austrian Cultural Forum and WQED Multimedia videos of St. Stephen’s Cathedral and Mozart’s apartment in Vienna.
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Explore & EngageThemes and programs that give you a deeper, more meaningful and more personally relevant connection to the music! |
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Free screening: In Search of Mozart,
an award-winning Mozart documentary by Phil Grabsky
Time: Tuesday, December 1, 7:00 p.m.
Location: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh, Schenley Drive (Oakland)
Reservations not required.
Co-sponsored by the Film Studies Program of the University of Pittsburgh
PSO Music Director Manfred Honeck will participate in the Concert Preludes for this weekend's concerts. Like Mozart, Honeck believes there is eternal life after death, and portrays this through his unique interpretation of Mozart's Requiem. Come listen to Honeck discuss how he created this performance piece and the deep connection that he feels to the work.
Friday night only, there is a post-concert chat with John Lithgow.
Learn more about the Explore & Engage program
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