Mozart Requiem
Sunday, March 23, 2003, 3:00 PM
Roswell UMC Sanctuary

The full MOS, with an orchestra drawn primarily from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and soloists Arietha Lockhart, Karen Sikorski, Bradley Howard and John LaForge, will provide an afternoon of music you will long remember.

The concert will take place on Sunday, March 23 at 3:00 PM in our superb performance venue of Roswell UMC and will feature Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem. This exquisitely beautiful creation gained new audiences after being featured in the cinema classic, Amadeus, and from numerous performances following the tragedy of September 11, 2001. You will be moved and inspired by this music.

As an added bonus, the MOS and orchestra will open the program with Nänie by Johannes Brahms. The rich, harmonic texture of Brahms is apparent throughout this miniature masterpiece, along with some of his most memorable melodies. Set to a text by the German poet, Friedrich Schiller, Nänie reminds us that beauty is transitory and will eventually fade. It is, I believe, a perfect complement to Mozart's Requiem, which was written by a genius who died at the all too early age of thirty-five.