WHO: º£½ÇÉçÇø Chorus and Festival Orchestra
WHAT: Mozart’s Requiem
WHEN: Sunday, February 25 at 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Memorial Chapel, º£½ÇÉçÇø
Hamilton, NY — The timeless sounds of Mozart’s Requiem will fill Memorial Chapel as the º£½ÇÉçÇø Chorus and Festival Orchestra take the stage on Sunday, February 25. The performance, which will feature soloists Janet Brown, Colleen Ring, Mark Lawrence, and Timothy LeFebvre in a presentation of this choral masterwork, will begin at 3:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public and a reception will follow. For a complete spring concert calendar, call the Colgate Concertline at 315-228-7642.
Mozart’s Requiem has long fascinated audiences by reason of the mysterious circumstances of its commission in the last months of the composer’s life. Its musical riches, so dramatic and expressive of the words of the Latin Requiem mass for the dead, have captured the minds and hearts of listeners for more than 200 years.
Founded in 1819, º£½ÇÉçÇø is a nationally ranked, highly selective, residential, liberal arts college. Situated on a rolling 515-acre campus in central New York State, º£½ÇÉçÇø attracts motivated students with diverse backgrounds, interests and talents.