Timeless traditions and contemporary anxieties clash musically and theatrically in Leonard Bernstein's powerful but rather neglected "Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers," The dancers are omitted in this semi-staged performance, produced for the Vatican's Jubilee 2000 celebration, but the show's eclectic musical brilliance, its adept mingling and clash of musical styles, its contrasts of hope and anxiety, faith and unbelief, ancient serenity and modern dissatisfaction are all brilliantly conveyed. More than 30 years after its premiere, for the opening of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Mass still has the impact of this morning's newspaper headlines.
Leonard Bernstein
Writer
Coro di Voci Bianche
Chorus
Coro del Conservatorio di S. Cecilia
Chorus
Douglass Webster
Celebrant
Yvonne Gonzales
Charis Fliermans
Jan Brockman
Jane Horvath
Susan Ancheta
Lori Rivera
Too Late Blues63%
Honeydripper58%
Take the Lead68%
You Got Served63%
Köln 7571%
Taking Sides62%
Good Vibrations67%
A Chorus Line62%
The Jazz Singer61%
Kid Galahad61%
Beyond the Sea62%
Yankee Doodle Dandy70%
Fast Girls61%
Radium Girls67%
August Rush74%
Oranges and Sunshine69%
Make Mine Music58%
Mansfield Park61%
Waiting for Anya62%
Beat Street68%
