Is Leonard Bernstein's 'Mass', Ultimately, Even A Piece Of Music? Maybe Not - And That Doesn't Matter
"[The work] is hung on a musical frame. But more saliently to most audiences, perhaps, it is religious, it is social, it is political. ... Maybe the technical term for it all is simply this: groovy." Peter Dobrin considers the new recording of Mass, released for the Bernstein centennial, by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia […]