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The Front Row

The Front Row – Mercury Baroque

Conductor Antoine Plante talks about one of classical music’s greatest and most mysterious masterpieces, Mozart’s Requiem, commissioned by an anonymous patron and left unfinished by the dying composer, who began to believe he might be writing this Mass for the Dead for himself.  Mercury Baroque and the Bach Society Choir present a period-instruments performance of Mozart’s Requiem, Saturday night at the Wortham Center…

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Plainte talks with St. John Flynn.