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Requiem: Mozart’s Last Words is a classical concert, one of four major concerts presented each season by the Longmont Chorale. This is a classical concert, featuring Mozart’s Requiem (the Levin completion) and other classical choral masterpieces, circa 1730-1820. Some of the other compositions heard in this concert include works by Mozart, Salieri, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, and more. The Longmont Chorale and our guest soloists will be accompanied by musicians from the Longmont Symphony Orchestra.
Bob Balsman, President of the Longmont Chorale invites our audience, saying, “I am excited to welcome you to this concert, featuring Mozart’s Requiem. We last performed this magnificent work back in March, 2007. That was my first concert with the Longmont Chorale, and I’ve been in love with Mozart’s Requiem ever since. My wife (Paula) joined the Chorale during the following season, so this is her first time to perform it. However, she is very well acquainted with the work, because we both enjoy listening to it so often. For us, singing the Mozart Requiem is like visiting a good friend.”
The Longmont Chorale will perform the Levin edition of Mozart’s Requiem, a newer completion of the work. It is called a completion because Mozart began work on his Requiem, but did not complete it personally. Many do not know that only the first two movements were fully completed by Mozart: the ‘Requiem Aeternam’ and ‘Kyrie’. His student, Franz Süssmayr, was commissioned by Mozart’s wife, Constanze, to hurriedly complete the work in order to collect the commission for the finished Requiem. However, several issues were noted in the Süssmayr completion, even though it became the traditionally-accepted version of the Requiem. One of the most noticeable differences: Süssmayr includes only a single ‘Amen’ sung at the end of the Lacrimosa movement, whereas Levin composed an entire fugue on the subject.
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Requiem: Mozart’s Last Words
LifeBridge Christian Church, 10345 Ute Highway, Longmont www.lbcc.org
Sunday, Mar. 11th at 3:00 pm
Tickets: Adults, $17 - Senior, $15 – Students 7th grade to age 22, $5 – Active Military with ID, $5 – 6th grade and under, FREE – Military in Uniform, FREE. See LongmontChorale.org/Tickets for more details.
More information available on our website’s blog: LongmontChorale.org/blog, and on our Facebook page: facebook.com/LongmontChorale.
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About the Longmont Chorale:
The Longmont Chorale is one of the longest-running community choirs in the western United States. We are a non-auditioned SATB community choir which was created in the 1930’s. Through our major concerts, smaller performances, special events, and other community activities, we provide and support an open, non-auditioned community choir, enriching the lives of singers and patrons through the study, creation, and performance of beautiful choral music.
This is a press release issued by Longmont Chorale and published here as a public service.
