From his newly redecorated dressing room Pittsburgh Symphony music Director Manfred Honeck discusses Mozart’s Mass in c minor with the Schumann Piano Concerto to be heard Friday and Sunday December 3 and 5 2022 and Saturday night only Handel’s Messiah. Both concerts are with with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and soloists including Ying Fang who appeared in Mozart’s Idomeneo at the Metropolitan Opera this past fall. Manfred Honeck tells Jim Cunningham about the mystery of the missing sections of the Mozart Mass and why a non believer should care about the Mass in the modern world. He also shares his thoughts regarding the Thanksgiving day concert and the visit of his daughter Anna Maria to Heinz Hall.