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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!

Genres:   OrchestraVocal

Subgenres:   Mixed EnsembleChoralSacredOrchestra

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

Purchase

Published by OK Feel Good Music.

  • full score (9x12): $70

Rent

  • Score and parts (first performance): $495
  • Additional performance: $95

Print On Demand

  • Study score (8.5 x 11): $19 Lulu