Bernstein: Mass
Bernstein: Mass
Format: CD
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Artist: Bernstein
Label: Sony Masterworks
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 194398905624
Genre: Classical
During his legendary tenure at the New York Philharmonic from 1958 to 1969, Leonard Bernstein composed only two works, Symphony No. 3: Kaddish (1963) and Chichester Psalms (1965). He had dedicated Kaddish to the memory of John F. Kennedy shortly after his assassination, and when Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis asked Bernstein to compose a piece for the 1971 inauguration of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., he was eager to honor the occasion with a new, large-scale work because he knew he had always wanted "to compose a service of one sort or another." The son of Russian-Jewish parents, a social liberal, and lifelong activist, Bernstein made a surprising choice: the Roman Catholic Mass. But instead of a straightforward, purely musical setting of the Latin liturgy, he created a broadly eclectic theatrical event by placing the 400-year-old religious rite into a tense, dramatic dialog with music and lyrics of the 20th century vernacular, using this dialectic to explore the crisis in faith and cultural breakdown of the post-Kennedy era. Over the years, the ideas and dissent embodied in MASS, which were so threatening to the political and religious establishments in the volatile early-1970s, have become a more accepted part of spiritual and political discourse. MASS came full circle when, in 2000, Pope John Paul II requested a performance at the Vatican. It's radical mixing of musical styles, too, has also become less shocking and more accepted in the musical sphere. Time has revealed MASS to be a visionary piece that continues to be relevant and move audiences as it enjoys performances around the world.
Tracks:
1.1 I. Devotions Before Mass
1.2 1. Antiphon: Kyrie Eleison
1.3 2. Hymn and Psalm: "A Simple Song"
1.4 3. Responsory: Alleluia
1.5 II. First Introit (Rondo)
1.6 1. Prefatory Prayers
1.7 2. Thrice - Triple Canon: Dominum Vobiscum
1.8 III. Second Introit
1.9 1. in Nomine Patris
1.10 2. Prayer for the Congregation (Chorale: "Almighty Father")
1.11 3. Epiphany
1.12 IV. Confession
1.13 1. Confiteor
1.14 2. Trope: "I Don't Know"
1.15 3. Trope: "Easy"
1.16 V. Meditation #1
1.17 VI. Gloria
1.18 1. Gloria Tibi
1.19 2. Gloria in Excelsis
1.20 3. Trope: "Half of the People"
1.21 4. Trope: "Thank You"
1.22 VII. Meditation #2
1.23 VIII. Epistle: "The Word of the Lord"
1.24 IX. Gospel-Sermon: "God Said"
1.25 Voice [Preacher]
1.26 X Credo
1.27 1. Credo in Unum Deum
1.28 2. Trope: "Non Credo"
1.29 3. Trope: "Hurry"
1.30 4. Trope: "World Without End"
1.31 5. Trope: "I Believe in God"
1.32 XI. Meditation #3 (De Profundis, Part 1)
1.33 XII. Offertory (De Profundis, Part 2)
1.34 XIII. the Lord's Prayer
1.35 1. "Our Father..."
1.36 2. Trope: "I Go On"
1.37 XIV. Sanctus
1.38 XV. Agnus Dei (Beginning)
1.39 XV. Agnus Dei (Conclusion)
1.40 XVI. Fraction: "Things Get Broken"
1.41 XVII. Pax: Communion ("Secret Songs"
