A mass of Bernstein
If you follow classical music you already know that orchestras and performing arts organizations around the world are celebrating the 90th birthday of Leonard Bernstein. The WCFSO will present a tribute in Iowa next week, and ahead of that event I will publish several posts dedicated to the conductor-composer’s work.
This morning on NPR Marin Alsop offers her insights into Mass, one of Bernstein’s most important and revealing works:
Revisiting Bernstein’s Immodest ‘Mass’
NPR Weekend Edition Saturday – September 27, 2009
My own moment of discovery with Mass came in a roundabout way – attending a concert at the Konzerthaus in Vienna in 1995 [and a member of the Yale Symphony Orchestra at the time], I was stunned to come across a huge archival poster from the YSO’s European premiere of the piece.
This image of that program comes from the YSO Facebook page.
