{"id":23547,"date":"2010-03-24T16:49:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=23547"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:24:38","slug":"mozart-requiem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/24\/mozart-requiem\/","title":{"rendered":"College Choir to perform Mozart&#039;s final choral masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/03\/corrie-conducts.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/03\/corrie-conducts.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"corrie-conducts\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart&#8217;s <em>Requiem<\/em> and other works will be performed by the Bates College Choir, directed by John Corrie, at 8 p.m. Friday, April 2, and Saturday, April 3, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free, but tickets are required. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.<\/p>\n<p>Mozart was working his <em>Requiem<\/em> on his deathbed in 1791, leaving it for prot\u00e9g\u00e9s to complete. A masterpiece of the choral repertoire, the work is &#8220;an unlikely but unforgettable alloy of ecclesiastical grandeur, Baroque fugue and the subtlest mood painting,&#8221; wrote a Portland Phoenix reviewer in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Known for operatic music that can convey scene or character with a handful of notes, Mozart used that skill here to portray a believer facing death: feeling dread at the end of this life, anxiety at the prospect of judgment, abject yearning for forgiveness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The choir will be accompanied by an orchestra consisting of students and community members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart&#8217;s Requiem and other works will be performed by the Bates College Choir, directed by John Corrie, at 8 p.m. Friday, April 2, and Saturday, April 3, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39],"tags":[1315,4759,6092,6135],"class_list":["post-23547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","tag-bates-college-choir","tag-john-corrie","tag-mozart","tag-music-tag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88098,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547\/revisions\/88098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}