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Los Angeles Philharmonic
Mozart Requiem
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Although the concert is free, tickets are required and have already been distributed by the Cathedral. Standing room is not allowable per Los Angeles Fire Department Regulations.

The creation of Mozart's celebrated Requiem is one of the most convoluted myteries in all of music history. The tale begins as a messenger arrives on Mozart's doorstep with a commission for a Requiem Mass from an anonymous master. Would Mozart compose such a work, and if so, at what price? Mozart accepted, with the condition that he not try to learn the identity of the commissioner. Before the end of that year, the composer himself was dead. Although it was left unfinished by Mozart, the Requiem is a grand work, powerful in its fearsome visions of the Last Judgment, sublime in the gentleness of its evocation of salvation and eternal rest. Hear this musical offering of luminous beauty conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen in the spectacular new Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels.

This concert is presented as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Neighborhood Concert Program, which is supported in part by Target Stores, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and the California Arts Council, a State Agency.