On the Requiem Shulamit Hoffmann, Conductor Papa Leopold, ever the anxious father, once wrote to his son, “Where is the music you are...

Pre Concert Make your score your ally, and make sure we are all on the same page! Score in a black choir folder or black binder or...

The spirited South African call and response processional, with ululations, is a wonderful prelude to the spirited Mozart Requiem...

Poem by Larry Wray, 2011. Written during our preparations for our Prague and Dresden Mozart Requiem performances. Dear Shu, Of course,...

In performance: Mozart Requiem, Dresden Learning the music is one thing; performing it is a whole other I think we all know or are...

Carnegie Hall Concert Residency Thursday, June 19-Monday, June 23, 2025 Repertoire: MOZART Requiem in D minor, K.626, Süssmayr completion...

BLACK BINDERS ·   Vivans like to wrap their music book in a black paper cover. This is the lightest and smallest solution. ·   Or a...

Notes to the Choir April 7 2025 I want to thank and complement all the singers in live rehearsal and the large contingent on Zoom. Bravo...

Listen to Adriana Mireles reciting her translation of the Requiem text in Spanish—beautiful and affective! To listen to the sound file,...

Notes from Dr Hoffmann for Carnegie 04/02/25 Mozart wrote in a letter in 1790: "I now stand at the gateway to my fortune.” He was,...

Sundari Dembe Guercino Abramo Quam Olim Abrahae "O Lord, to pass from death to that life which of old you promised to Abraham and to his...

The legendary conductotr, Bruno Walter, who had a special relationship with Mozart's music “Truth can be repulsive,” Bruno Walter, a...

Last portrait of Mozart, incomplete, by his brother-in-law, Josef Lange Underlined titles are live links Zubin Mehta in Sarajevo 1994...

Shulamit conducting Mozart Requiem , Dresden, 2011. Shulamit Hoffmann © 2016  Given that expression is often considered the most...

Pierre St Hilaire, tenor, writes: "Shulamit, I have brushed my latin and have taken the liberty to do a word-for-word translation of the...

Benedictus—Fireside video chat Benedictus—Adagio, B flat major, 4/4, 53 mm , r soloists and orchestra. Followed by a second Osanna, also...

Inter oves locum praesta, et ab haedis me sequestra, Make a place for me among the sheep, and keep me apart from the goats,  Andante, F...

Michelangelo The Last Judgement The Last Judgment (Italian: Il Giudizio Universale) is a fresco covering the whole altar wall of the...

Agnus Dei—d minor-larghetto— ¾— 45 mm. Agnus Dei— Fireside chat video Francisco de Zurbarán, Agnus Dei .  Zurbarán was the most...

Sanctus—Adagio, D major, 10 mm leading to the first Osanna, Allegro, also D major, 27 mm. Sanctus— Fireside chat video Angel with banner,...