MASS BY BERNSTEIN

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Artists

Clark Rundell, conductor
William Dazeley, baritone
In collaboration with the ESMUC
Cor Madrigal
Cor Lieder Càmera
Cor infantil amics de la Unió
Cor de Teatre

Program

Finally, Barcelona can enjoy the monumental Mass by Leonard Bernstein, a highly unconventional work that combines the spirituality of liturgical texts with the theatricality of the American musical.The work arose from a commission by the young widow Jacqueline Kennedy for the opening of the JFK Center for the Performing Arts in Washington in 1971. Bernstein decided to compose a mass, but was soon seduced by the power of popular music and musical theatre. And thus a monumental work was born, with more than 30 vocal and instrumental pieces, an orchestra of more than 100 musicians, including rock instruments, keyboards, percussion, three choirs and a solo voice. The closing stages of the work, in the voice of the celebrant, are unequivocal: “The Mass is ended, go in peace”.