LEONARD BERNSTEIN Mass 1971 CBS QUADRAPHONIC 2LP BOX MINT
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN Mass 1971 CBS QUADRAPHONIC 2LP BOX MINT
IMMACULATE COPY OF BERNSTEIN'S MASTERPIECE - UNPLAYED
LEONARD BERNSTEINMass
1971 US CBS (M2Q 31008 ) QUADRAPHONIC PRESSING OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S "Mass"
A CLASSICAL/ROCK/COUNTER CULTURE EVENT created for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. on September 8, 1971
LOVELY COPY - POSSIBLY NEVER BEEN PLAYED AND DELIVERING IMMACULATE SOUND THROUGHOUT
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1971 PRESSING WITH SIDE ONE BACKED BY SIDE FOUR - SIDE TWO BY SIDE THREE
RECORDS: MINT
BOX: EXCELLENT
32 PAGE PHOTO/LIBRETTO BOOKLET: NEAR MINT
Leonard Bernstein's Mass: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers is the composer/conductor's most ambitious and most controversial work.
Commissioned to create a stage production to inaugurate the opera house at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on September 8, 1971, Bernstein, who had recently left his post as the music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra to spend more time composing, turned to the Roman Catholic mass as a structure to investigate issues of faith and doubt, and of the political and social upheavals of the era of the late '60s and early '70s.
An outspoken eclectic who had already composed for the concert hall and the Broadway stage, he had also expressed admiration for contemporary pop and rock music, and he incorporated all these elements into this music, along with other styles.
The large-scale work, incorporating a pit orchestra, an on-stage band, an adult choir, a boys choir, and a dance company in addition to the actual cast of singers and actors, actually had a simple premise. The formal parts of the mass were sometimes set to lively music, notably the "Prefatory Prayers," played by a marching band out of John Philip Sousa. As the mass went on, its proceedings were infiltrated and interrupted by a series of "street" performers who sang in light rock and blues styles, using slangy language and expressing irreverent, skeptical, and, eventually, outright hostile attitudes toward the Celebrant and God. Near the end, the Celebrant himself suffered a sort of musical nervous breakdown before the congregation finally came together in a call for peace and understanding.
As such, Mass was very much in the style of such recent predecessors as Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Godspell in its attempts to reflect and reconcile the religious, cultural, and political rifts of its time.
Predictably, it earned Bernstein criticism but on purely musical terms it contains some of Bernstein's most exciting non-classical music.
Conducted by the composer, this recording, featuring the original Kennedy Center cast, is an excellent representation of a unique composition that, because of its scale, is rarely performed. Alan Titus, in the role of the Celebrant, is particularly impressive
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525 (GS 6.6.5 (525))
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