Well, not just me. 🙂 The Augustana Chamber Choir, directed by Dick Larson, along with the Augustana Chancel Choir and the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, will perform the Mozart Requiem this Sunday, All Saints Day. I recently joined the choir (I sing tenor), largely for the opportunity to sing this very piece of music. If you’re in the area, please join us in the sanctuary of Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave, Denver, at 3:00 PM.
Singing the Requiem got me thinking about a couple of pertinent movie scenes, both of which I was able to find YouTube clips of. The first is the fictionalized account, in the movie Amadeus, of Mozart composing “Confutatis” — probably my favorite movement in the Requiem — with the help of Antonio Salieri. Didn’t actually happen, but it’s brilliant cinema, and it captures Mozart’s musical genius well:
The second clip is probably more familiar to non-music buffs. It’s the opening scene from X2: X-Men United, set to “Dies Irae,” another great movement from the Requiem. The music makes the scene, IMHO: