{"id":1637,"date":"2008-01-01T23:03:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T04:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2012-02-20T20:50:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T01:50:48","slug":"leonard-bernsteins-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1637","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s Mass<\/h2>\n<p>In 2008, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra mounted a grand new production of Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s <em>Mass<\/em>, performed in Baltimore, at Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center, among other places.\u00a0 I was commissioned to write four pieces about this masterwork for the BSO&#8217;s website.\u00a0 (The recording won a deserved Grammy.)\u00a0 As the Orchestra has taken down the individual pieces, I post them on this website:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Baltimore-Symphony-Orchestra-Week-1.pdf\">Crashing Right Down to the Floor<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Baltimore-Symphony-Orchestra-Week-2.pdf\">Is There Someone Out There?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Baltimore-Symphony-Orchestra-Week-3.pdf\">All You Big Men of Merit<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Baltimore-Symphony-Orchestra-Week-4.pdf\">Lauda, Laude<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s Mass In 2008, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra mounted a grand new production of Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s Mass, performed in Baltimore, at Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center, among other places.\u00a0 I was commissioned to write four pieces about this masterwork for the BSO&#8217;s website.\u00a0 (The recording won a deserved Grammy.)\u00a0 As the Orchestra has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1916,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-writings","category-closeup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}