Metroactive » Bernstein’s Mass https://activate.metroactive.com Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:08:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 ‘Bernstein’s Mass’ at Hammer Theatre Center https://activate.metroactive.com/2019/05/bernsteins-mass-at-hammer-theatre-center/ https://activate.metroactive.com/2019/05/bernsteins-mass-at-hammer-theatre-center/#comments Thu, 09 May 2019 01:23:20 +0000 http://wp.blvdscms.com/activate-metroactive-com/?p=123896
With the Vietnam War at its height and serious civil unrest sweeping the country, one of the 20th century’s most respected composers sought to produce a work that would both challenge and unify a deeply divided America. After his decade-spanning tenure leading the New York Philharmonic concluded in 1969, former First Lady…]]>

With the Vietnam War at its height and serious civil unrest sweeping the country, one of the 20th century’s most respected composers sought to produce a work that would both challenge and unify a deeply divided America. After his decade-spanning tenure leading the New York Philharmonic concluded in 1969, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis asked Leonard Bernstein to compose a work to commemorate the inauguration of the Kennedy Center in 1971. The son of Russian-Jewish parents took inspiration from the Roman Catholic Mass, pulling elements from a centuries-old tradition and fusing them with decidedly modern music and lyrics.

Bernstein’s Mass
Fri & Sun, $20
Hammer Theatre Center

 

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