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  • Kazushi Ono, © Photo: May/Zircus
    Kazushi Ono, © Photo: May/Zircus

Leonard Bernstein's MASS

About the Event

Tonight will be a treat: a performance of Leonard Bernstein's highly unconventional Mass, combining 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.

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