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LI Philharmonic and Chorus to perform Mozart
Mozart's "Requiem" is probably not the greatest piece of vocal or choral music ever written; that distinction likely belongs to "Don Giovanni" or Verdi's "Otello." (Debate among yourselves.) But it certainly must be one of the more interesting. Unfinished by the time the composer was felled by rheumatic fever in 1791, his widow, Costanza, was eager to collect the fee for the work, so she commissioned...
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