Word: eleison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bulk of praise for the performance is due the chorus. The singers are extraordinary. They are capable of great projection, as in the also entrance of the first Kyrie eleison; and they are equally able to sing softly and expressively, as in the Confiteor unum baptisms. Their diction was clear; and strong emphasis was reserved for truly significant moments like the Crucifixus. The Choir showed immense poles in handling violent transitions: the Et resurrexit was a shock to the audience. Only once in the Cum Sancto spiritu was an entrance made without seemingly total assurance...
...work takes its form from the Catholic Mass, the Kyrie eleison, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei. As more or less ironic counterpoint, a populist band of sinners and dancers variously sing, intone or howl doubts and questions in a mélange of musical styles and pop-lyric words by Bernstein and Stephen Schwartz, the 23-year-old creator of Godspell, the musical version of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. The dramatic climax of the work is the disruption of the Mass. It also involves the spiritual shattering of a young man who begins...