“Everybody wants to hear Mozart’s Requiem,” said Ronald Shirey, director of choral studies.

Even better, the Austrian composer’s last work, written as he was dying in 1791 at the age of 35, will be the musical centerpiece of this year’s Homecoming/Reunion Weekend, Oct. 18-21.

“It is the acknowledged masterpiece that ended the classic age of music.”

The 40-minute Requiem performance, at 3 p.m. on that weekend’s Sunday, will feature 200-plus voices and the 65-member TCU Symphony, conducted by German Gutierrez. Alumni of the University’s choral groups have been invited to rehearse with the students over the course of the weekend and add their voices to the talented ensemble. Free public concerts of the super classics might become an annual tradition at TCU.