Mozart with the Monks at Grant Park

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"This evening's Tibetan Mozart Requiem, presented in celebration of the composer's 250th birthday, grew from the Grant Park Music Festival's mission to serve Chicago's rich cultural heritage and to expand its audience's knowledge of the city's diverse cultures through innovative programming.

At several points in the Tibetan Mozart Requiem, members of the Buddhist Drepung Loseling Monastery of Atlanta will perform traditional chants using a "multi-phonic" vocal technique developed through years of practice that allows the intonation of "many sounds" simultaneously across a three-octave range by a single voice. The performance, inspired by a similar venture by the Stuttgart Philharmonic in 1996, was designed to juxtapose Western classical music and theological interpretations of death and redemption with those of Tibetan Buddhist culture, tenets central to both religions.

"By juxtaposing the forms of artistic expression and the liturgies of two different religions," His Holiness the Dalai Lama has said, "one may arrive at an unexpected understanding of the affinities as well as the special characteristics of these two traditions."

So, it wasn't really incorporated--just the Monks doing their thing in between sections of Mozart.


MOZART Piano Concerto in Major, K. 503
MOZART Requeim Mass, K. 626 (Levin version)
Tibet Chant
Introit
Kyrie
Dies Irae
Tibet Chant
Tuba Mirum
Rex Tremendae
Tibet Chant
Recordare
Confutatis
Lacrimosa
Tibet Chant
Domine Jesu
Hostias
Sanctuas
Tibet Chant
Benedictus
Agnus Dei
Tibet Chant
Lux Aeterna