Brent conducts Convergence with the orchestra & chorus of Texas Choral Consort in the world-premiere production of Mozart Requiem Undead. This open-air performance serves as the opening of the 2014 Fusebox Festival.
Conceived, curated, and developed by Peter Stopschinski, Graham Reynolds and Brent Baldwin, MRU features wildly reimagined completions by ten different composers of Mozart's famously incomplete work.
Poster by Joshua Ropke
Featured guest composers:
Caroline Shaw (2013 Pulitzer Prize-winner in Music)
Glenn Kotche (Wilco)
Todd Reynolds (Bang on a Can, Steve Reich)
Kate Moore
Adrian Quesada (Grupo Fantasma)
DJ Spooky
Justin Sherburn (Okkervil River, Montopolis)
Petra Haden (Decemberists, Bill Frisell)
Graham Reynolds (Golden Hornet)
Peter Stopschinski (Golden Hornet)
MRU is a collaboration between Convergence, Texas Choral Consort and Golden Hornet. Produced by Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox Festival.
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Photo by Greg Coleman
Concert review by New Music Box
Concert review by Austin360
Photo gallery by the Austin Chronicle
Austin Critics Table Awards grants MRU first prize for Best Choral Performance of 2014 via the Austin Chronicle
Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony photo gallery by the Austin Chronicle
MRU nabs the #1 spot in the Austin Chronicle’s Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures
KLRU’s Arts in Context feature documentary on MRU: Classical Undead
Peter, Graham, and Brent ham it up at the Austin Critics Table Awards (photo: John Anderson/Austin Chronicle)
This performance is made possible by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, and City of Austin Cultural Division.