The Big Picture and the Closeup

Leonard Bernstein’s Mass

In 2008, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra mounted a grand new production of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, performed in Baltimore, at Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center, among other places.  I was commissioned to write four pieces about this masterwork for the BSO’s website.  (The recording won a deserved Grammy.)  As the Orchestra has taken down the individual pieces, I post them on this website:

• Crashing Right Down to the Floor
• Is There Someone Out There?
• All You Big Men of Merit
• Lauda, Laude