Instead of attending the Grant Park Music Festival's performance of Mozart's Requiem last night, I went to Rate Field to see the White Sox lose to the Cleveland Guardians, 8-2. Other than the humidity, it was a really good night to do either:
It turns out, however, that GPMF has a second performance this evening, and some of my musician friends who couldn't go last night want to go tonight. I'm also excited because this is the Robert Levin edition from 1993. Levin preserved the structure of Franz Süssmayr's iffy 1792 completion but still used Mozart's "Amen" fugue at the end of the Sequenz.
It turns out, I have heard the Levin completion at the Grant Park Music Festival before, 20 years ago. This time, however, there will be no Tibetan throat singing to interrupt Mozart's music.
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