Air Mozart
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A truncated version of a movement from Mozart’s Requiem somehow captures the agony and pathos of a buzzer beating game victory. It’s really a classic TV moment, but also a classic Mozart moment.
Mozart’s_Requiem_in_popular_culture
And strangely it works from a textural standpoint as well. The words are:
Lacrimosa dies illa, qua resurget ex favilla, judicandus homo reus, huic ergo parce, Deus. Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem. Amen.
Or in English with interpretation:
That tearful day, when guilty man rises from the embers to be judged…
Much like the guy coming down the lane with the dunk is rising…
from this, then, spare us, O God.
Spare us from this championship defeat.
Amen.
Amen.
