Requiem

Tune in on Sunday, Aug. 23 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Aug. 24 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 to hear an all-Mozart program performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra, and conducted by Harry Bicket.

We're going back in time to 1986, and tenor Luciano Pavarotti was in town to sing Verdi's Requiem Mass at the Spectrum conducted by Lorin Maazel with a full orchestra and vocalists from the Opera Company of Philadelphia, now famously known as Opera Philadelphia. The entire concert was broadcast throughout the country on PBS.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in 1791 at age 35, before he finished his Requiem mass. But it wasn't the only funeral music he composed. WRTI's Susan Lewis…