Catalogue # 0636943962220
Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice Award 2010 Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice, September 2009
Jubilant Sykes (baritone)
Morgan State University Choir, Peabody Children's Chorus, Morgan
State University Marching Band & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra,
Marin Alsop
When Leonard Bernstein was asked by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to compose the inaugural piece for the opening of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D. C., he wrote ‘The Mass is also an extremely dramatic event in itself—it even suggests a theater work’. Premièred on 8 September 1971, with additional words by Stephen Schwartz of Godspell fame, Mass is a remarkable visionary piece with a kaleidoscope of musical styles that touches on themes of political protest, existential crisis, and religious faith lost and found.
