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Mass

for chorus, vocal trio, & chamber orchestra

  • Year

    2018
  • Duration

    40:00
  • Level

    Professional
  • Perusal Score

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Movements:

1. GATHERING
2. KYRIE
3. GLORIA
4. MEDITATION
5. CREDO
6. SECOND MEDITATION
7. SANCTUS / BENEDICTUS
8. AGNUS DEI
9. BENEDICTION

Premiered by the Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street and written in collaboration with noted American poet Victoria Chang, Mass was commissioned as part of Trinity Church’s long-term project Mass Reimaginings, a series celebrating the 45th Anniversary of the Bernstein Mass, as well as Bernstein’s 100th birthday, with five 21st-century takes on the traditional mass.

Mass premiered as part of Trinity Wall Street’s Total Embrace Festival. For more about the work’s creation, watch the pre-concert discussion about the piece with Newman, Chang, and Trinity Wall Street’s Director of Music and the Arts Julian Wachner…or enjoy a video of the premiere performance below!

Instrumentation

1-0-1(+BCl)-0, 2Sax(AT/S), 2Perc, EGtr, Trio(ATB), Chor(SATB), 1-1-1-1-1

Commissioned by

Trinity Wall Street Church

Premiered

May 17, 2018
St. Paul’s Chapel of Trinity Wall Street Church, New York, NY
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street & NOVUS NY
Julian Wachner, conductor


Press

This week, the winsome “Arias and Barcarolles” shares a program with a new Mass by Jonathan Newman, who, like Bernstein, distills the strains of pop, blues, and jazz into classical structures.

— The New Yorker

Recent Performances

  • May 17, 2018 - Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Novus NY at St. Paul's Chapel at Trinity Wall Street, New York, NY. Conducted by Julian Wachner. World Premiere