New Jersey Symphony: Mozart's Requiem

Mozart’s *Requiem* is a setting of the Catholic Mass for the dead, written for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, where ritual text becomes public music of mourning. Long tied to Mozart’s final months and left incomplete at his death, it has become a fixture in New York’s concert and memorial life, heard in churches and major halls as often as on the operatic stage. At NJPAC, the New Jersey Symphony approaches it as a large choral architecture built from restraint as much as drama. Its lasting point is plain: grief given form without sentimentality.