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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was called the "Savior of Church Music." Of his roughly 700 works, more than 100 were masses. His most famous work, the…
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“It could be argued that art—and music in particular—represents an engagement with the transcendental,” said Austrian conductor NikolasHarnoncourt in an…
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The Mass for the Feast of St. Isidore of Seville is a parody mass, based on a secular chanson rather than on a scriptural or liturgical text and a…
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Leonard Bernstein's highly unconventional Mass was commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy in memory of slain President Kennedy and was premiered in 1971 at…