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Mozart's Attic Thursday Oct 20th 10:00 PM

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Bach's B minor Mass was an inchoate collection of movements at the time of his death. Parts of it had been performed, most of it hadn't, and the complete score didn't get published for another century.

And it wasn't until 1968 that Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus Wien recorded it for a major German label  with actual period instruments in a reading that played a central role in the historical performance movement.

We'll have the Harnoncourt perfomance of the B minor -- the way Bach wrote it and intended it -- as our sole work this week.

Originally from central Massachusetts, Jay has called the Space Coast home for more than 30 years. He began his association with WFIT in the late '90s as a dumpster diver for office furniture in response to a broadcast plea for a new chair from a frustrated disc jockey. (WFIT has come a long way since.)