NEW YORK — The controversy over Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” began with its premiere in 1971. In his review for The New York Times on Sept. 9 that year, Harold C. Schonberg dismissed the piece as ...

Enjoy Ravinia Festival’s production of Leonard Bernstein’s musical starring Tony Award-winning baritone Paulo Szot and featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra artistic ...

Leonard Bernstein wrote his Mass to memorialize John F. Kennedy. But conductor Marin Alsop says that the dizzyingly eclectic work reveals more... Revisiting Bernstein's Immodest 'Mass' Revisiting ...

Paulo Szot Sings "A Simple Song" Brazilian baritone, Paulo Szot, sings Leonard Bernstein's iconic "A Simple Song." Marin Alsop: ''Mass' by Leonard Bernstein is one of the most avant-gardes, it's a ...

Now, it seems, the world as a whole is closer to the collective breakdown characterised by Bernstein's constantly widening rift between the Latin words of the Christian Mass - many of them ...

Nearly half a century after Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” received its world premiere – to intensely divided and often harsh reviews – the work is enjoying a long-overdue moment in the sun. The process ...

When Leonard Bernstein wrote his grandiose and controversial “Mass” for the opening performances of the Kennedy Center in 1971, he subtitled the work “Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers.” ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Leonard Bernstein poured his heart and soul into "Mass," a setting of the liturgy which touched off a storm of controversy that reached the very pinnacle of power in 1971. U.S.

A July 20 encore presentation of Leonard Bernstein's massive musical Mass, which requires the talents of 200 artists on stage, will be taped for a national television special to air in 2020, led by ...

It was one of the most remarkable musical events of 2018: The Ravinia Festival’s historic revival of Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass.” Incredibly, Bernstein’s magnum opus never had received a professional ...