NEW CONDUCTOR EARNING HIS SPURS FAST
ROHNERT PARK, CA—The unfinished Mozart Requiem got a refined performance, deserving of both the sellouts and the ensuing ovations. Clearly, in this first year leading the Santa Rosa Symphony, Francesco Lecce-Chong is fast earning his spurs as music director, exhibiting his finesse and his deft 18th-century styling. For once we avoided the excess romanticization encountered so often. The emphasis was clearly on clarity and articulation, achieved best with the instrumentalists. (The otherwise effective massed chorus of 75 or so singing…