BERNSTEIN MASS JUBILANT SYKES BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MARIN ALSOP

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Leonard BERNSTEIN (1918-1990) Mass A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers Text from the liturgy of the Roman Mass Additional texts by Stephen Schwartz and Leonard Bernstein Jubilant Sykes, Celebrant

Asher Edward Wulfman, Boy Soprano Morgan State University Choir Dr. Eric Conway, Director Peabody Children’s Chorus Doreen Falby, Director Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop Music Director and Conductor

Street People: Sarah Uriate Berry, Matt Boehler, Susan Derry, Celisse Henderson, Leah Horowitz, Morgan James, Amy Justman, Jodie Langel, Telly Leung, Theresa McCarthy, Mike McGowan, Dan Micciche, Joe Paparella, Max Perlman, Janet Saia, Caesar Samayoa, Timothy Shew, Kevin Vortman, J.D. Webster, Laurie Williamson Casting by: Pat McCorkle, CSA

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* Turn to wormwood, wormwood on my tongue. Tenor Solo CD 1 65:11 VIII. Epistle: “The Word of the Lord” 5:50 And I wonder, Lauda, Laude, (Celebrant, A Young Man, Another Young Man, Lauda, Lauda, I. Devotions before the Mass Street Chorus, An Older Man, A Young Woman) Oh, I wonder, 1 Antiphon: Kyrie eleison (Pre-recorded tape no. 1) 2:01 Laudate Deum, ( Was I ever really young? (High Soprano, Bass, Soprano 2, Alto, Tenor, Baritone) IX. Gospel-Sermon: “God Said” 4:22 Lauda, Lauda, It’s odd how all my body trembles, 2 Hymn and Psalm: “A Simple Song” 4:11 (Preacher, Street Chorus, Five Solo Voices) Laudate Eum. Like all this mass (Celebrant) X. Credo Leonard Bernstein 3 Responsory: Alleluia (Pre-recorded tape no. 2) 1:09 ) Of glass on the floor. Soprano Solo Two and Tenor Solo Two Credo in unum Deum (Pre-recorded tape no. 5) 1:08 How fine it would be to rest my head, (Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Alto, Tenor, Baritone, Bass) (Celebrant, Choir) Mass Lauda, Lauda, ¡ Trope: “Non Credo” 2:17 8.559622-23 And lay me down, Lauda, Laude… II. First Introit (Rondo) Down in the wine, 4 Prefatory Prayers 5:00 (Street Chorus Male Group, Baritone Solo) “Crucifixus” (Pre-recorded tape no. 6) Which never was really red… Street Chorus (Street Chorus, Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Solo Soprano, …But sort of… Celebrant, Boy Soprano, Boys’ Choir) (Choir) Lauda, Lauda, 5 ™ Trope: “Hurry” 1:20 …brown… Lauda, Laude… Thrice-Triple Canon: Dominus vobiscum 0:42 (Celebrant, Boys’ Choir, Street Chorus) (Mezzo-soprano Solo) And let not… another word… “Sedet ad dexteram Patris” (Pre-recorded tape no. 7) Be spoken… Tutti Voices III. Second Introit (Choir) Oh… Pax tecum. 6 In nomine Patris (Pre-recorded tape no. 3) 1:58 £ Trope: “World without End” 1:39 How easily things get broken. (Boys’ Choir, Choir, Celebrant) (Street Chorus, Mezzo-soprano Solo) Solo Boy Soprano 7 Prayer for the Congregation “Et in Spiritum Sanctum” (Pre-recorded tape no. 8) 6 XVII. Pax: Communion (‘Secret Songs’) Lauda, Lauda, (Chorale: “Almighty Father”) 1:22 (Choir, Three Solo Voices) Lauda, Laude… (Choir) ¢ Trope: “I Believe in God” 2:07 Solo Boy Soprano 8 Epiphany (Pre-recorded tape no. 4) 0:55 (Three Solo Voices, Street Chorus, Rock Singer, Choir) (Celebrant) Sing God a secret song: Celebrant ∞ XI. Meditation No. 3 (De profundis, Part 1) 2:31 Lauda, Laude… Lauda, Lauda, IV. Confession (Choir, Celebrant) Lauda, Lauda, Laude. Lauda, Laude… 9 Confiteor 2:10 Ilya Finkelshteyn, Cello Lauda, Lauda, Laudate. (Choir) § Laude, Deum, 0 XII. Offertory (De profundis, Part 2) 2:13 Entire Company Trope: “I Don’t Know” 1:41 (Boys’ Choir, Choir) Laudate Eum. Almighty Father, incline thine ear: (First Rock Singer and Descant, Second Rock Singer, Bless us and all those who have gathered here. Male Street Chorus) Bass Solo ! Trope: “Easy” 4:51 CD 2 38:50 Thine angel send us, 1 Lauda, Laude, Who shall defend us all; (First Blues Singer, Second Rock Singer, XIII. The Lord’s Prayer 1:18 Lauda, Laude, Second Blues Singer, Third Rock Singer, Third Blues Singer, (Celebrant) And fill with grace 2 Laude Deum, All who dwell in this place. First Rock Singer and Descant, Celebrant, Choir) Trope: “I Go On” 2:25 (Celebrant) Laude Eum. Amen. @ V. Meditation No. 1 5:10 3 XIV. Sanctus 5:10 Boy Solo and Bass Solo VI. Gloria (Celebrant, Boys’ Choir, Choir, Counter-tenors, Voice # Lauda, Lauda, Laudate… The Mass is ended; go in peace. Gloria Tibi 1:55 Street Chorus) (Celebrant, Boys’ Choir) $ 4 XV. Agnus Dei 6:30 Soprano Solo Gloria in Excelsis 1:16 (Choir) (Soloists of Street Chorus, Street Chorus, Celebrant, Choir) Lauda, Laude, Copyright © 1971 Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing % Trope: “Half of the People” 1:00 5 XVI. Fraction: “Things Get Broken” 14:22 Lauda, Lauda, Company LLC. All rights for Leonard Bernstein Music Laudate Deum, (Street Chorus, Choir) (Celebrant) Publishing Company LLC administered by ^ Trope: “Thank You” 2:46 Lauda, Lauda, 6 XVII. Pax: Communion (“Secret Songs”) 9:06 Universal–PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. (Soprano Solo, Street Chorus) Laudate Eum. Copyright renewed. Reproduced by permission. (Boy Soprano, Bass Solo, Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Tenor 1, & VII. Meditation No. 2 3:39 Tenor 2, Street Chorus, Celebrant, Choir) –3– 8.559622-23 30 3 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 4

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Sleep… Why have you stopped praying? Mass Shh… Stopped your Kyrieing? Shh… Where is your crying and complaining? After his outrageously dynamic 11-year tenure at the “Jeremiah” Symphony and the “Kaddish.” He was Pray, pray… Where is your lying and profaning? New York Philharmonic, during which time he danced thinking bigger than ever. His zany Mass, mixing sacred You sons of men… Where is your agony? from the podium into the telesphere as America’s most and secular texts in wacky and original ways, would be Don’t Leonardlet… Him Bernsteindie again… Where is your malady? beloved music teacher, Leonard Bernstein was anxious a kind of “Symphony of a Thousand” of the Vietnam Stay, oh stay… Mass Where is your parody to get back to the business of composing. Best known Era—to invoke the great piece of his hero, Gustav DOMINE… Of God… said… for his Broadway masterpiece West Side Story, he had Mahler. It was also his War Requiem, his Carmina Stay… 8.559622-23 Let there be and there was… only produced two works during his legendary Burana, his Symphony of Psalms. Why are you waiting? God said: Let there leadership from 1958 to 1969: the “Kaddish” Symphony He had about three years to put it together. But six Just go on without me. Beatam Mariam semper Virginem, and Chichester Psalms. months before the scheduled premiere, Bernstein was in Stop waiting. Beatam miss the Gloria, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis gave Bernstein an a slight panic because he was in no way close to What is there about me I don’t sing opportunity to get back on the creative track, big time, finished. The born performer in him had not given up That you’ve been respecting Gratias agimus tibi with an irresistible commission: to compose the his globe-trotting baton, and he was also spending And what have you all been Propter magnam inaugural piece for the opening of the newly constructed precious creative time working on a film score for Expecting to see? Gloriam tuamen… Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Franco Zeffirelli’s Brother Sun, Sister Moon, a “flower Take a look, there is nothing Amen. D.C. This was right up his alley. Bernstein wrote: “I’ve power” retelling of the life of St Francis. But me under this, Amen. always wanted to compose a service of one sort or Desperate for a collaborator, he tapped his sister There is nothing you’ll miss! I’m in a hurry another, and I toyed with ecumenical services that Shirley, a playwright agent, who suggested one of her Put it on, and you’ll see And come again. would combine elements from various religions and clients, the young, hip Stephen Schwartz, freshly Anyone of you can be When? sects, of ancient or tribal beliefs, but it never all came famous for the hit musical based on the life of Christ, Anyone of me! You said you’d come… together in my mind until Jacqueline Onassis asked me Godspell. He was, literally, a godsend, and the two hit it What? Come love, come lust… to write a piece dedicated to her late husband... The off, working at a delirious pace to make the deadline. Are you still waiting? It’s so easy if you just don’t care, Mass is also an extremely dramatic event in itself— What they concocted was a riveting drama within Still waiting for me, Lord, don’t you care… it even suggests a theater work.” the framework of the religious service that reflected the Me alone, …if it all ends today… Bernstein was the quintessential theatrical cultural malaise going on in America, if not the world, To sing you into heaven? …profundis clamavi, composer—he even admitted once that even his concert in the early 1970s. The spine of the piece was the Well, you’re on your own. Clamavi ad te, Domine, ad Dominum, ad Dom… works had a “theatrical core”—and ran with the idea standard Roman Catholic liturgical sequence: the Come on, say it, Adonai… like no other could. So he took the centuries-old, Kyrie–Gloria–Credo–Sanctus/Benedictus–Agnus Dei. What has happened to …don’t know, musico-religious ritual, the Roman Catholic liturgy, and They amplified and complicated the form by inserting All of your vocal powers? I don’t nobis… dragged it, kicking and screaming into the 20th century, daring “tropes” and serious “meditations” which Sing it, pray it, Miserere nobis… transforming it into a battleground about the provided a kind of Talmudic commentary, questioning Where’s that mumbo and jumbo Mise… mi… contemporary crisis in faith. He called it Mass: A and challenging the handed-down passages of the I’ve heard for hours? Mi alone is only me… Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers. It had service, usually recited without reflection. Praying and pouting, But mi with so… its premiere on September 8, 1971. It is a visionary Mass weaves within this structure the story of the Braying and shouting litanies, Me with s… period piece that gains more relevance as time goes on. Celebrant and his “congregation”—which Bernstein Chanting epistles, …mi… Born of the same Zeitgeist that produced Hair and calls “street people” made up of singer-dancers—who Bouncing your missals Oh, I suddenly feel ev’ry step I’ve ever taken, Jesus Christ Superstar, Bernstein’s singularly explosive grow increasingly disillusioned, cynical and exasperated On your knees… And my legs are lead. work, featuring everything from bongos to kazoos, with authority, divine and human. The Celebrant, also Go on whining, And I suddenly see ev’ry hand I’ve ever shaken, outdid the eclecticism of West Side Story and Candide, plagued with doubt and unable to play an authority Pining, moaning, intoning, And my arms are dead. while continuing the religious outcries expressed in his figure, has a nervous/spiritual breakdown and commits a Groaning obscenities! I feel ev’ry psalm that I’ve ever sung –4– 8.559622-23 4 29 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 28

Dona nobis, Come on, you know you loved it, blasphemous act by hurling down the holy chalice. Yet pacem, when the street people defiantly demand peace. Dona nobis. You’re dying for more. this apparent sacrilege leads him back to the simple faith Even more in-your-face lyrics are spewed forth, “We’re Wasn’t it smashing expressed at the beginning of this piece in the glorious not down on our knees / We’re not praying,” and later, Tape Ten To see it all come crashing A Simple Song. “We’re fed up with your heavenly silence.” At the time Celebrant Right down to the floor? What is remarkable about this most catholic of of the original performance this also resonated Pa… cem! Right! Catholic Masses is that despite the kaleidoscopic jumble politically with the anti-war movement in Vietnam. You were right, little brothers, of styles—blues, rock, pop, Broadway, Middle Eastern (Remember, Bernstein was a diehard liberal who threw Leonard Bernstein 5 XVI. Fraction: ‘Things Get Broken’ You were right all along. dance, symphonic, marching band, contemporary avant- a fund-raising party for the Black Panthers in his Park Mass Little brothers and sisters, garde atonality, brutism, solemn hymn, dissonant Avenue apartment in 1970.) 8.559622-23 Celebrant It was I who was wrong. counterpoint, quasi-medieval melismas—Mass holds Famous pop icon Paul Simon donated a brilliant Pacem! Pa… cem! So earnest, so solemn, together as a unified composition. It is not a messy quatrain, “Half the people are stoned / and the other half Look… As stiff as a column, mish-mash, even with the bongos and kazoos. are waiting for the next election / Half the people are Isn’t that… ‘Lauda, Lauda, Laude’. The opening, three-note Kyrie motif, for instance, drowned / and the other half are swimming in the wrong …odd… Little brothers and sisters, reappears in different guises throughout the piece, from direction” which sums up the lethargy and confusion of Red wine… isn’t red… at all… You were right all along! haunting oboe and flute “epiphany” solos, to electric a generation. In the mocking “God Said” section, there It’s sort of… brown… brown and blue… It’s got to be exciting, guitar riffs. The tritone interval (the augmented fourth), are lyrics such as “God said that sex should repulse / I never noticed that. It’s got to be strong. known as the “devil in music,” also runs throughout the unless it leads to results / and so we crowd the world / What are you staring at? Come on! piece (as it does in West Side Story). On one hand, it can full of consenting adults / And it was good…” Haven’t you ever seen an accident before? Come on and join me, signify doubt, as in the “I Don’t Know” trope; the tritone But his Mass is not all groovy counterculture and Look… Come join in the fun: is also manifested prominently in the Lydian church atheistic rage. Quite the opposite, in spite of the Isn’t that… Shatter and splatter, mode, which Bernstein cleverly employs in his most disarming honesty, doubt and indignation. If you listen …odd… Pitcher and platter, tender passages to signify innocence, sung by the boys more carefully, Bernstein is constructing a kind of Glass shines… brighter… What do we care? choir, as in the Sanctus. There is plenty of Bernstein’s musical theology. He is making a deeply personal When it’s… broken… We won’t be there! signature bouncy lilt of alternating meters. statement about getting lost and finding faith again—the I never noticed that. What does it matter? Mass also features Bernstein’s first use of the rock Gospel According to Lenny, you might say. How easily things get broken. What does it… matter… idiom. Anytime there is some sort of protest, the The fantastic, unforgettable opening of Mass Glass… and brown wine… Our Father, who art in Heaven, composer pulls out the electric guitars and “rock” organ establishes Bernstein’s method and way of thinking. Thick… like blood… Haven’t you ever seen an accident before? (as opposed to the church organ, also used in the piece), The Kyrie is prerecorded and played in a darkened Rich… like honey and blood… Listen… appropriately given rock’s association with rage and auditorium, during which different voices and Hey… don’t you find that funny? Isn’t that… revolution. And there is plenty of protest and unrest in percussion slam up against each other in different keys I mean, it’s supposed to be blood… …odd… the piece. and tempi. The cacophony is brought to an abrupt, I mean, it is blood… We can… be… so still… For instance, in the Credo—which means “I surprising halt with simple open fifths in G major. Thus His… So still and… numb… believe” in Latin, and is the central tenet expressing begins A Simple Song (which is not so simple, and was It was… How easily things get quiet… belief in one God—the Latin text is dutifully sung in transplanted from the cancelled score for Zeffirelli’s St How easily things get broken… …quiet… dispassionate, almost machine-like, automatic fashion Francis film) that introduces the central figure of the What are you staring at? God is very ill… by a choir on a pre-recorded tape. Right after, a “live” Celebrant with guitar in hand. His joyous and uplifting Haven’t you ever seen an accident before? We must… all be very still… rock band kicks in singing lyrics such as “and then a “laudas” soar to the heavens. Come on, come on, admit it, His voice… has grown so small, plaster god like you has the gall to tell me what to do.” That simple song comes back at the end of Mass, Confess it was fun. Almost… not there at all… That is followed by the trope, “I believe in God / but against all odds. The mounting chaos of Dona nobis Wasn’t it? Don’t you cry… does God believe in me? I’ll believe in any god / If any pacem, which finishes with a kind of volcanic jam You know it was exciting Lullaby… god there be.” session, drives the once-content Celebrant to frustration To see what I’ve done. Sleep… The crisis comes to a crescendo in Dona nobis if not madness. He impulsively smashes the holy –5– 8.559622-23 28 5 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 6

sacraments, but notices that the spilled wine resembles broken man, finds his faith again through this Celebrant Choir real blood. “Look, isn’t that odd” he sings in this untarnished simplicity, singing in moving unison with Hostiam immaculatam… Pacem! Pacem! riveting “Fraction” stretch. His agitated, atonal melody the boy. Dona nobis pacem! is actually quoting and recontextualizing the quasi- This is key. That is why Bernstein refused to cut Street Chorus twelve tone row found in the last movement of Meditation No. 2, strongly suggested by the show’s Dona nobis pacem. Celebrant Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. original director, Gordon Davidson, and his advisor, Pacem! Pacem! Panem! The first time the Beethoven is heard is way back in Schuyler Chapin, because they thought the show was Leonard Bernstein the first half during Meditation No. 2. Here, Bernstein too long. Bernstein did not budge in the end because that Street Chorus and ChoirMass Choir creates a menacing theme and variations out of long-range connection had to be maintained. Agnus Dei, qui tollis8.559622-23 peccata mundi; Dona nobis pacem! Beethoven’s remarkable 11-note sequence. It is But even more fundamental than Bernstein’s Dona nobis pacem! Dona nobis, nobis pacem, pacem dona. important to the overall structure and meaning of inspired appropriation of Beethoven is the subtle Dona nobis pacem! Bernstein’s conception. argument made in Mass that belief in music is a kind of Pacem! Pacem! Tenor Solo The clue to this might be found in what Bernstein proof of the soul, which strongly suggests a divine We’re not down on our knees, wrote two years after the premiere of Mass as part of his presence. In the Credo, the angry rocker gives up on a Celebrant We’re not praying, Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University, seemingly absent God, so redirects his belief to the one Let us pray! We’re not asking you please, which were televised: “And what about the Finale of thing he knows exists: “I believe in F Sharp / I believe in We’re just saying: Beethoven’s Ninth—that sudden awestruck moment of G.” What seems like cutesy self-referentiality actually Choir Give us peace now and peace to hold on to. recognizing the Divine Presence? … Beethoven has deeper implications for Bernstein. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi… And, God, give us some reason to want to! suspends all tonal harmony, leaving only harmonic In the Sanctus, the Celebrant picks up on this idea, Miserere nobis. Dona nobis, implications; that’s what makes it so suddenly by drawing clever if goofy connections between solfege Dona nobis. awesome, unrooted in earth, extra-terrestrial—so that syllables and their more meaningful homonyms: “Mi Celebrant when earthly harmony does return the incandescent A alone is only me. But me with sol. Me with soul. Means a Non sum dignus, Domine. Tutti Male Soli major triad does indeed cry ‘Brüder!’—Universal song is beginning. Is beginning to grow / Take wing and You worked six days and rested on Sunday. brothers, all emerging together from that non-earthly rise up singing / From me and my soul.” The music has Choir We can tear the whole mess down in one day. Divinity.” that wistful yearning that is the hallmark of Bernstein’s Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi… Give us peace now, and we don’t mean later, That startling, enlightening juxtaposition is style. Miserere nobis. Don’t forget you were once our Creator! certainly the model for the opening of Mass, reborn near In the end, if music originates in the soul and the Dona nobis, the end of the searing, soul-searching journey. After the soul originates with God, then music is as close a proof Celebrant Dona nobis. Celebrant’s tormented, tour de force aria during which as we are going to get. Thus Bernstein and his theatrical I am not worthy, Lord. bits and pieces of what has preceded is recalled (just like double, the Celebrant, are led back to God through their Soli those memory quotes in Beethoven’s finale), he is led belief in music, great mystery and miracle at the center Choir We’ve got quarrels and qualms and such questions, back to the opening simple song (redubbed “secret of this radical, revelatory liturgy. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi! Give us answers, not psalms and suggestions, song”), intoned by a solo boy soprano, whose angelic Dona nobis pacem! Give us peace that we don’t keep on breaking, voice is the sound of innocence. The Celebrant, a Robert Hilferty Give us something or we’ll just start taking! Celebrant Dona nobis, Corpus! Dona nobis.

Choir Street Chorus (Tutti) Pacem! We’re fed up with your heavenly silence, And we only get action with violence, Celebrant So if we can’t have the world we desire, Calix! Lord, we’ll have to set this one on fire! –6– 8.559622-23 6 27 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 26

All my days, and yet Adonai ts’vaot Jubilant Sykes I will still go on… on… M’lo chol haaretz k’vodo. Laude, Lauda, Laude, American baritone Jubilant Sykes brings a new dimension to the Lauda, Lauda di da di day. Choir traditional career of the classically trained singer by drawing on Baruch ha’ba gospel and jazz influences to deliver performances in differing 3 XIV. Sanctus B’shem Adonai! musical genres. He has had the privilege of working with a number Leonard Bernstein of notable conductors and has been the featured soloist with many Celebrant (shouting) All Voices Onstage of the world’s finest orchestras. His unique gifts have taken him Mass Holy! Holy! Holy Sanctus! Sanctus! from such diverse stages as the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper 8.559622-23 Is the lord God of Hosts! Berlin, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and London’s Barbican Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory! 4 XV. Agnus Dei Photo: Terrence McCarthy Centre to the Apollo Theater, Hollywood Bowl, New Orleans Jazz Festival and hundreds of other major venues around the world, Boys’ Choir I and II Soloists of Street Chorus appearing with a number of leading artists from different musical Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, styles. He has had an important artistic partnership with the Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Miserere nobis! legendary American classical guitarist Christopher Parkening, Pleni sunt coeli et terra Gloriae tuae. Miserere nobis! resulting in the acclaimed release of Jubilation for EMI. Two Osanna! recordings for Sony BMG Masterworks are Jubilant, bringing the Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Street Chorus singer together with jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Osanna in excelsis! Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Blanchard, and his crossover recording Wait for Me, featuring Miserere nobis! classic songs by a number of popular composer/entertainers. Celebrant Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi; Mi… Mi… Mi alone is only me. Dona nobis pacem! But mi with sol Pacem! Pacem! Me with soul, Asher Edward Wulfman Mi sol Celebrant (speaking) Means a song is beginning, Hoc est enim Corpus Meum. Asher Edward Wulfman is a sixth grade student at the prestigious American Boychoir School in Princeton, New Is beginning to grow, Hic est enim Calix Sanguinis Mei! Jersey. He began singing at the age of five with the Boston Children’s Opera in Belmont under the direction of Take wing, and rise up singing David Budgell, and has performed with the Boston University Opera, Boston Lyric Opera and Harvard University’s From me and my soul. Street Chorus Lowell House Opera. He is also an accomplished violinist. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh! Dona… nobis… pacem…

Choir Celebrant (speaking) Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh Hostiam puram! Adonai ts’vaot M’lo chol haaretz k’vodo. Street Chorus (Women) Singing: Holy, Holy, Holy, Dona nobis pacem. Lord God of Hosts. All the heavens and earth Celebrant Are full of His glory. Hostiam sanctam…

Three to Six Counter-tenors (Choir only) Street Chorus (Women) Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh Dona nobis pacem. –7– 8.559622-23 26 7 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 8

The Morgan State University Choir I’ll believe in you and you and you Quia penes Dominum And who… Misericordia et copiosa penes eum redemptio: Dr. Eric Conway, Director Who’ll believe in me? Et ipse redimet Israel ex omnibus iniquitatibus eius. The Morgan State University Choir is one Gloria Patri! of the nation’s most prestigious university Celebrant (speaking) choral ensembles. The choral forces of this Let usLeonard pray. Bernstein critically acclaimed choir include the Let us pray! CD 2 University Choir, which is more than 140 Mass voices strong, and The Morgan Singers— ∞ XI. Meditation8.559622-23 No. 3 XIII. The Lord’s Prayer approximately forty voices. While classical, gospel and contemporary popular music (De profundis, Part 1) 1 1. Our Father… comprise the choir’s repertoire, the choir is Tape Nine noted for its emphasis on preserving the Celebrant (as if improvising) heritage of the spiritual, especially in the Choir Our Father, who art in heaven, historic practices of performance. The De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine; Hallowed be Thy name. Photo courtesy of MSU Morgan State University Choir has Domine, audi vocem meam! Thy kingdom come, performed for audiences throughout the United States and all over the world. Known for their consistency of Fiant aures tuae intentae Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. excellent performances, the choir probably performs with more major orchestras of the United States than any other Ad vocem obsecrationis meae. Give us this day our daily bread university choir. The choir has shared its musical gifts on many grand stages all over the world, with numerous Si delictorum memoriam servaveris, Domine! And forgive us our trespasses dignitaries and celebrated performers, making them cultural ambassadors for Morgan State University, the City of Quis sustenebit? As we forgive those who trespass against us. Baltimore, the State of Maryland and the United States. Each spring, the choir concludes its season at home with its Sed penes te est peccatorum venia, And lead us not into temptation, annual spring benefit concert, which large audiences enthusiastically anticipate and receive. Ut cum reverentia serviatur tibi. But deliver us from evil. Spero in Dominum, Amen. Sperat anima mea in verbum eius. Peabody Children’s Chorus Spero! 2 2. Trope: ‘I Go On’ Sperat! Celebrant Doreen Falby, Director When the thunder rumbles, The Peabody Children’s Chorus, founded in 1989, is dedicated to providing age-appropriate Celebrant Now the Age of Gold is dead vocal training for young people. Approximately 300 children between the ages of six and 18 Memento, Domine… Remember, O Lord, Thy servants And the dreams we’ve clung to dying to stay young participate each year in three levels of training. Members of the Training Choir (ages six to ten), and handmaids… (ad lib. Names of cast members)… Have left us parched and old instead, the Choristers (ages ten to 14) and the Chamber Singers (ages 12 to 18) rehearse high quality and all here present, whose faith is known to Thee, and When my courage crumbles,

Photo: Will Kirk treble music of advancing challenge and sophistication, and perform in public concert at least for whom we offer up this sacrifice. We beseech Thee, When I feel confused and frail, twice a year. The Peabody Children’s Chorus performs frequently with other arts organizations in the fellowship of communion, graciously to accept it When my spirit falters on decaying altars such as the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Concert Artists of and grant peace to our days. And my illusions fail, Baltimore, the Peabody Conservatory’s Opera Theater and the Peabody Symphony Orchestra. I go on right then, I go on again. The Chorus has performed in masterclasses with Mark Cudek, Vern Falby, Tom Hall, Bobby § XII. Offertory I go on to say McFerrin, John Shirley-Quirk and Webb Wiggins, and has toured in England and France. I will celebrate another day… (De profundis, Part 2) I go on… Boys’ Choir and Choir Exspectat anima mea Dominum If tomorrow tumbles Magis quam custodes auroram. And ev’rything I love is gone, Exspectet Israel Dominum, I will face regret –8– 8.559622-23 8 25 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 24

Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum. No taking back. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum. Who created my life? Et vitam venturi saeculi. Made me come to be? The Grammy Award-winning Baltimore Amen. Who accepts this awful Symphony Orchestra is internationally Responsibility? recognized as having achieved a preeminent Three Soli Is there someone out there? place among the world’s most important Leonard Bernstein You chose… If there is, then who? orchestras. Acclaimed for its uncompromising Hurry and come again… Are you list’ning to this song pursuit of artistic excellence, the BSO has Mass You rose… I’m singing just for you? attracted a devoted national and international 8.559622-23 World without end, end of the world! Photo: Dave Hoffmann following while maintaining deep bonds A man! I believe my singing. throughout the Maryland community through Bags packed, wings sewn… Do you believe it too? innovative education and community outreach End of the world! I believe each note I sing initiatives. A man! But is it getting through? The BSO made musical history in 2005 Wings sewn. when it announced the appointment of Marin Lord, don’t you care? I believe in F sharp. Alsop as its 12th music director, making her You chose! I believe in G. the first woman to lead a major American Hurry! But does it mean a thing to you orchestra. Maestra Alsop’s inaugural concerts Lord, don’t you care? Or should I change my key? in September 2007 marked the dawn of a new You rose! era for the BSO, as she brings her highly praised artistic vision, her dynamic musicianship and her commitment to Hurry! How do you like A-flat? accessibility in classical music to BSO audiences throughout Maryland. Do you believe in C? The BSO is actively involved in recording, broadcasting and podcasting projects which make the BSO’s music ¢ 5. Trope: ‘I Believe in God’ available to audiences around the globe. It has received critical acclaim for its prolific discography, which features Three Soli and Street Chorus Choir renowned artists such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Hélène Grimaud, and violinists Joshua Bell and Hilary Hahn. Amen! Amen! Amen! Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub… Most recently, the BSO has ventured into new media with “Marin Alsop’s Clueless about Classical,” an iTunes podcast series hosted by the Maestra and dedicated to attracting a new generation of classical music lovers. Rock Singer Rock Singer In addition to the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, where the orchestra has performed for 26 years, the BSO Amen! Amen! Amen! Do you believe in anything is a founding partner and the resident orchestra at the new state-of-the-art Music Center at Strathmore, just outside I believe in God, That has to do with me? Washington, D.C. With the opening of Strathmore in February 2005, the BSO became the nation’s only major But does God believe in me? orchestra with year-round venues in two metropolitan areas. I’ll believe in any god Street Chorus If any god there be. I believe in God, That’s a pact. But does God believe in me? Shake on that. I’ll believe in thirty gods No taking back. If they’ll believe in me. That’s a pact. I believe in one God, Shake on that. But then I believe in three. No taking back. I’ll believe in twenty gods If they’ll believe in me. Rock Singer That’s a pact. I’ll believe in sugar and spice, Shake on that. I’ll believe in ev’rything nice; –9– 8.559622-23 24 9 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 10

Marin Alsop Tape Six Cujus regni non erit finis. Internationally acclaimed for her creative approach to programming and interpretation Choir £ 4. Trope: ‘World without End’ of repertoire from the mainstream to the contemporary, Marin Alsop is an inspirational Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato, Street Chorus (interrupting pre-recorded tape) music director, instilling orchestras with new dynamism and deepening their interaction Passus, et sepultus est. Non erit finis… with audiences and the wider community. She has enjoyed great success as music Et resurrexitLeonard tertia Bernstein die, secundum Scripturas. World without end… director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and has retained strong links with all of Et ascendit in caelum: her previous orchestras. From 2002-2008 she was principal conductor of the Sedet ad dexteram Patris,Mass Mezzo-soprano Solo Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and now holds the post of conductor emeritus, as Et iterum venturus8.559622-23 est cum gloria judicare vivos Whispers of living, echoes of warning, well as being music director laureate of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, where she et mortuos. Phantoms of laughter on the edges of morning. was music director from 1993 to 2005. Since 1992 Alsop has been music director of World without end spins endlessly on, California’s Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, building a devoted audience for ™ 3. Trope: ‘Hurry’ Only the men who lived here are gone, new music and playing to sold-out houses. Mezzo-soprano Solo (interrupting tape) Gone on a permanent vacation, As a guest conductor, Marin Alsop makes regular appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia You said you’d come again. Gone to await the next creation. Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic. European engagements have taken her to the Royal Concertgebouw When? World without end at the end of the world. Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle, Orchestre de Paris, Munich Philharmonic and La Scala Milan. She is one of the few When things got really rough. Lord, don’t you know it’s the end of the world? conductors to perform every season with both the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic. At So you made us all suffer Lord, don’t you care if it all ends today? London’s Southbank Centre, she is the artistic director of The Bernstein Project which runs from September 2009 to July While they got a bit rougher, Sometimes I’d swear that you planned it this way… 2010, and which will range from Mozart with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to Bernstein’s own Mass, Tougher and tougher. Dark are the cities, dead is the ocean, featuring musicians from the National Youth Orchestra and a huge cast of performers drawn from the local community. Well, things are tough enough. Silent and sickly are the remnants of motion. Since beginning her position in Baltimore in September 2007, Alsop has spearheaded educational initiatives So when’s your next appearance on the scene? World without end turns mindlessly round, which reach more than 60,000 school and pre-school students, and in 2008 launched OrchKids, an after-school I’m ready. Never a sentry, never a sound. program designed to provide music education, instruments and mentorship to the city’s neediest young people. Her Hurry. No one to prophesy disaster, ability to transcend traditional barriers was exemplified by her invitation to attend the 2006 annual meeting of the Went to church for clearance and I’m clean No one to help it happen faster. World Economic Forum in Davos and by her delivery of a televised speech on the importance of arts education to And steady. No one to expedite the fall, the National Press Club in Washington D.C. in 2008. A regular presence in the media, she has been profiled in Time Hurry. No one to soil the breeze, and Newsweek, appeared on NBC’s Today Show and was featured as ABC News’s ‘Person of the Week.’ While I’m waiting I can get my bags packed, No one to oil the seas, Musical America’s 2009 Conductor of the Year, Marin Alsop made history in 2007 when she was appointed Flags flown, No one to anything, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, thus becoming the first woman to head a major American Shoes blacked, No one to anything, orchestra. In 2003, she was the first artist to be named Gramophone’s Artist of the Year and to receive the Royal Wings sewn on. No one to anything at all. Philharmonic Society’s Conductor’s Award in the same year, while in 2005, she became the first conductor to be Oh don’t you worry: conferred the USA’s prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. Among her other prizes are a European Women of I could even learn to play the harp. (Recording interrupts.) Achievement Award, a Classical BRIT Award for Best Female Artist and the Royal Philharmonic Society’s BBC You know it. Tape Eight Radio 3 Listeners Award. In Autumn 2008, she became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Show it. and her achievements at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music have been recognized annually with the Hurry. Choir ASCAP award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music. Hurry and come again. Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Her extensive discography includes the Brahms symphonies with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, music by Dominum et vivificantem: Bartók, Bernstein, Takemitsu, Weill and Orff with the Bournemouth Symphony, in addition to a series featuring Tape Seven Qui ex Patre Filioque procedit. American composers. A mainstay of the Naxos recording label, in 2008, Alsop launched a Dvor˘ák symphony cycle Qui cum Patre, et Filio simul adoratur, et with the Baltimore Symphony with the Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’, which immediately became an Choir conglorificatur: international best seller. Born in New York City, Marin Alsop attended Yale University and received her master’s Sedet ad dexteram Patris. Qui locutus est per Prophetas. degree from The Juilliard School. Marin Alsop was the first woman to be awarded the Koussevitsky Conducting Et iterum venturus est cum gloria judicare vivos et Et unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam. Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center where she became a protégée of Leonard Bernstein. mortuos: –10– 8.559622-23 10 23 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 22

¡ 2. Trope: ‘Non Credo’ Male Group MASS I will lift up my eyes Male Group (interrupting tape) Possibly yes, probably no… To the hills from whence comes my help. Et homo factus est. A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers I will lift up my voice to the Lord, Baritone Solo Text from the liturgy of the Roman Mass Singing Lauda, Laude. Baritone Solo Yes, probably no. Additional texts by Stephen Schwartz For the Lord is my shade, And was made man… Give me a choice, and Leonard Bernstein Is the shade upon my right hand, Leonard Bernstein I never had a choice. And the sun shall not smite me by day Mass Male Group Or I would have been a simple tree, Nor the moon by night. CD 1 8.559622-23 And was made man. A barnacle in a silent sea, Blessed is the man who loves the Lord, Anything but what I must be: I. Devotions before the Mass Lauda, Lauda, Laude, Baritone Solo A man, And walks in His ways. And you become a man. A man, 1 1. Antiphon: Kyrie eleison Lauda, Lauda, Laude, You, God, chose to become a man. A man! Tape One. In total darkness, pre-recorded sound is Lauda, Lauda di da di day… To pay the earth a small social call. heard coming from the four speakers placed in the All of my days. I tell you, sir, you never were Male Group four corners of the house. A man at all. Possibly yes, probably no… 3 3. Responsory: Alleluia Why? High Soprano and Bass Solo Tape Two You had the choice when to live, Baritone Solo Kyrie eleison. When You knew what you had to do, Six Solo Voices To die, You knew why you had to die. Second Soprano and Alto Soli, Tenor Du bing, du bang, du bong, etc. And then and Baritone Soli Alleluia! Alleluia! etc. Become a god again. Male Group Christe eleison. And then a plaster god like you… Man, II. First Introit (Rondo) Man. 2 2. Hymn and Psalm: ‘A Simple Song’ Male Group Celebrant 4 1. Prefatory Prayers A God like you too… Baritone Solo Sing God a simple song: You chose to die, and then revive again. Lauda, Laude… Street Chorus Baritone Solo You chose, you rose alive again. Make it up as you go along: Kyrie eleison! Has the gall to tell me what to do But I, Lauda, Laude… Christe eleison! To become a man, I don’t know why I should live Sing like you like to sing. Gloria Patri et Filio, To show my respect on my knees… If only to die. God loves all simple things, Et Spiritui Sancto! For God is the simplest of all. Sicut erat in principio Male Group Well, I’m not gonna buy it! Et nunc et semper, Be like a man. I will sing the Lord a new song Et in saecula saeculorum. Male Group To praise Him, to bless Him, to bless the Lord. Amen. Baritone Solo Possibly yes, probably no… I will sing His praises while I live Go genuflect, but don’t expect guarantees. All of my days. Basses Oh, Baritone Solo Introibo ad altare Dei. Just play it dumb, I’ll never say credo. Blessed is the man who loves the Lord, Play it blind, How can anybody say credo? Blessed is the man who praises Him. Tutti But when I go I want to say credo… Lauda, Lauda, Laude, Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam. –11– Then And walks in His ways. Will I become a god again? 8.559622-23 22 11 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 12

Women Solo Boy, Boys’ Choir and Street Chorus Fourth Solo and Street Chorus Preacher Asperges me, Domine, Kyrie eleison. God said that sex should repulse God said: Let there be day. Hyssopo, et mundabor. Christe eleison! Unless it leads to results; And there was day… Emitte lucem tuam, And so we crowd the world Et veritatem tuam. Street Chorus and Boys’ Choir Full of consenting adults. Street Chorus Ostende nobis, Domine… Alleluia! Leonard Bernstein …day to follow the night. Soloist and StreetMass Chorus Basses 5 2. Thrice-Triple Canon: Dominus vobiscum And it was good. Preacher Domine. Celebrant, Boys’ Choir and Street Chorus 8.559622-23 And it was good, brother… Women Dominus vobiscum. Fifth Solo and Street Chorus Misericordiam tuam. Et cum spiritu tuo. God said it’s good to be meek, Preacher and Street Chorus And so we are once a week; And it was good, brother… Soprani and Celebrant III. Second Introit It may not mean a lot And it was… Vidi aquam egredientem But oh, it’s terribly chic. De templo latere dextro. 6 1. In nomine Patris X. Credo Celebrant (speaking) Soloist and Street Chorus Rest of Street Chorus In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the And it was good. ) 1. Credo in unum Deum Alleluia! Holy Ghost. Tape Five Preacher and Street Chorus Soprani and Celebrant Tape Three God made us the boss. Celebrant (declaiming) Et omnes ad quos pervenit God gave us the cross. I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of Aqua ista salvi facti sunt, Boys’ Choir and Choir (Men) We turned it into a sword heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. Et dicent: In nomine Patris, et Filii, To spread the Word of the Lord. And in one Lord… Et Spiritus Sancti. We use His holy decrees Tutti Amen. To do whatever we please. (He is interrupted by the recording.) Alleluia! Celebrant (speaking) Street Chorus Chorus Boys’ Choir Let us rise and pray. Yeah! Credo in unum Deum, Kyrie eleison. Almighty Father, bless this house. Patrem omnipotentem, And bless and protect all who are assembled in it. Preacher and Street Chorus Factorem caeli et terrae, Street Chorus And it was good! Yeah! Visibilium omnium et invisibilium. Christe eleison. 7 2. Prayer for the Congregation And it was goddam good! Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum, (Chorale: ‘Almighty Father’) Filium Dei unigenitum. Solo Boy and Boys’ Choir Choir Preacher Et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula. Here I go up to the altar of God. Almighty Father, incline thine ear: God said: Let there be light. Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine, In I go, up I go Bless us and all those who have gathered here. And there was light. Deum verum de Deo vero. To God who made me young, Thine angel send us, Genitum, non factum, consubstantialem Patri: To God who made me happy, Who shall defend us all. Street Chorus Per quem omnia facta sunt. To God who makes me happy to be young. And fill with grace God said: Let there be night. Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem All who dwell in this place. And there was night. descendit de caelis. Amen. Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto –12– Ex Maria Virgine: et homo factus est.

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Preacher Street Chorus 8 3. Epiphany What I say I don’t feel, God said: Let there be gnats. …sprats to nourish the rats… Tape Four What I feel I don’t show, Let there be sprats… Oboe solo What I show isn’t real, Preacher What is real, Lord, I don’t know, Street Chorus And all for us big fat cats. Celebrant (speaking) No, no, no… …sprats to gobble the gnats I confess to Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever I don’t know. Leonard Bernstein So that the sprats… Street Chorus Virgin, to blessed Michael the archangel, to blessed I don’t know why ev’ry time …us cats! John the Baptist, to the holy apostles, Peter and Paul… I find a new love Mass Preacher I wind up destroying it. 8.559622-23 …sprats may nourish the rats, Preacher and Street Chorus IV. Confession I don’t know why I’m so crazy-minded Making them fat… Yow! I keep on kind of enjoying it. 9 1. Confiteor Why I drift off to sleep Street Chorus Street Chorus Choir With pledges of deep resolve again, …fat, fine food for the cats. And it was good. Confiteor Deo omnipotenti, Then along comes the day Beatae Mariae semper Virgini, And suddenly they dissolve again. Preacher First Solo and Street Chorus Beato Michaeli Archangelo, I don’t know… And they grew fat, brother… God said it’s good to be poor, Beato Joanni Baptistae, Good men must not be secure; Sanctis Apostolis Petro et Paulo, First Rock Singer and Descant Preacher and Street Chorus So if we steal from you, Omnibus sanctis, What I say I don’t feel, And they grew fat, brother… It’s just to help you stay pure. Et vobis, fratres: What I feel I don’t show, Quia peccavi nimis cogitatione, verbo et opere: What I show isn’t real, Preacher Soloist and Street Chorus Mea culpa, What is real, Lord, I don’t know, All but the gnats, brother… And it was good. Mea maxima culpa. No, no, no… Ideo precor, I don’t know. Preacher and Street Chorus Second Solo and Street Chorus Beatam Mariam semper Virginem, They all grew fearful fat. God said take charge of my zoo, Beatum Michaelem Archangelum, ! 3. Trope: ‘Easy’ I made these creatures for you; Beatum Joannem Baptistam, First Blues Singer Preacher So He won’t mind if we Sanctos Apostolos Petrum et Paulum. Well, I went to the holy man and I confessed, And God saw it was good. Wipe out a species or two. Omnes Sanctos, Look, I can beat my breast Et vos, fratres: With the best. Street Chorus Soloist and Street Chorus Orare pro me And I’ll say almost anything that gets me blessed. God made it be good… And it was good. Ad Dominum Deum nostrum. Upon request. It’s easy to shake the blame for any crime Preacher Third Solo and Street Chorus 0 2. Trope: ‘I Don’t Know’ By trotting out that mea culpa pantomime: Created it good… God said to spread His commands Street Chorus (Men) ‘Yes, yes, I’m sad. To folks in faraway lands; Confiteor, confiteor… I sinned, I’m bad.’ Street Chorus They may not want us there, Then go out and do it one more time. Created the gnats… But, man, it’s out of our hands. First Rock Singer Lord, I could go confess Second Rock Singer Preacher Soloist and Street Chorus Good and loud, nice and slow, I don’t know where to start. …gnats to nourish the sprats… And it was good. Get this load off my chest, There’s so much I could show Yes, but how, Lord, I don’t know. If I opened my heart –13–

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But how far, Lord, but how far can I go? Precor, When I hugged him he smelled so good, a smell of Street Chorus I don’t know. Beatum Michaelem Archangelum, plain clean soap; he smelled like a child when you put …day to follow the night. Ideo precor him to bed. Second Blues Singer Beatum Joannem Baptistam, Preacher If you ask me to join you in some real good vice Sanctos Apostolos Petrum et Paulum. Celebrant And it was good, brother… Now that might be nice Omnes sanctos, All youLeonard big men Bernstein of merit who ferret out flaws, Once or twice. Et vos, fratres, You rely on our compliance with your science and Preacher and Street Chorus But don’t look for sacraments or sacrifice, Orare pro me your laws. Mass And it was good, brother… They’re not worth the price. Ad Dominum Deum nostrum. Find a freedom to8.559622-23 demolish while you polish It’s easy to have yourself a fine affair. some award, Preacher Your body’s always ready, but your soul’s not there. All Six Solo Singers and Descant But you cannot abolish the Word of the Lord. And it was good, brother… Don’t count on trust, What I say I don’t feel, Come love, come lust. What I feel I don’t show, Celebrant and Street Chorus Preacher and Street Chorus It’s so easy when you just don’t care. What I show isn’t real, No, you cannot abolish the Word of the Lord. And it was goddam good. What is real, Lord, I don’t know, Third Rock Singer No, no, no… Celebrant Preacher What I need I don’t have, I don’t know. For the Word created mud and got it going, God said: Let there be storms. What I have I don’t own, It filled our empty brains with blood and set it flowing, Storms to bring life… What I own I don’t want, First Rock Singer And for thousands of regimes What I want, Lord, I don’t know. Come on, Lord, if you’re so great It’s endured all our follies and fancy schemes. Street Chorus Show me how, where to go. It’s been tough, and yet it seems to be growing! …life in all of its forms, Third Blues Singer Show me now, I can’t wait, O you people of power, your hour is now. Forms such as herds… If you ask me to sing you verse that’s versatile, Maybe it’s too late, Lord. You may plan to rule forever, but you never do somehow! I’ll be glad to beguile you I don’t know. So we wait in silent treason until reason is restored, Preacher For a while. And we wait for the season of the Word of the Lord. …herds and gaggles and swarms, But don’t look for content beneath the style, First Blues Singer We await the season of the Word of the Lord. Swarms that have names… Sit back and smile. Confiteor. We wait, we wait for the Word of the Lord… It’s easy for you to dig my jim jam jive, Street Chorus And, baby, please observe how neatly I survive. Celebrant (speaking) ( IX. Gospel-Sermon: ‘God Said’ …names and numbers and norms. And what could give God forgive you. More positive Preacher Preacher Plain proof that living is easy when you’re half alive. All (speaking) God said: Let there be light. And it was good, brother… God forgive us all. And there was light. All Three Rock Singers Preacher and Street Chorus If I could I’d confess. Celebrant (speaking) Street Chorus And it was good, brother… Good and loud, nice and slow, Lord. God be with you. God said: Let there be night. And there was night. Preacher All Three Blues Singers All (speaking) And it was good, brother… Easy, easy. And with your spirit. Preacher God said: Let there be day. Preacher and Street Chorus Choir Celebrant (speaking) And there was day… And it was goddam good. Beatam Mariam semper Virginem, Let us pray. –14– 8.559622-23 14 19 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 18

The bend of a willow, Celebrant V. Meditation No. 1 Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris: A friend and a pillow, You can lock up the bold men, Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis; A lover whose eyes Go and lock up your bold men and hold men in tow, @ Orchestra alone Suscipe deprecationem nostram; Could mirror my cries of Gloria… You can stifle all adventure Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis. For a century or so. VI. Gloria Quoniam tu solus Sanctus, And now, it’s strange, Smother hope before it’s risen, Tu solus Dominus, Somehow, though nothing much has really changed, Watch it wizen like a gourd, # 1. Gloria tibi Tu solus Altissimus, Jesu Christe, Leonard Bernstein I miss the Gloria, But you cannot imprison Celebrant and Boys’ Choir Cum Sancto Spiritu; in gloria Dei Patris. Mass I don’t sing Gratias Deo. The Word of the Lord. Gloria tibi, Amen. 8.559622-23 I can’t say quite when it happened, Gloria tibi, But gone is the… thank you… Celebrant and Street Chorus Gloria! % 3. Trope: ‘Half of the People’ No, you cannot imprison Gloria Patri, *This quatrain was a Christmas present from Paul Street Chorus The Word of the Lord. Gloria Filio, Simon. Gratias. L.B. Half the people are drowned Et Spiritui Sancto. And the other half are swimming in the wrong direction. Celebrant Laudamus te, Street Chorus For the Word was at the birth of the beginning, Adoramus te, Amen! Celebrant (speaking) It made the heavens and the earth and set them spinning, Glorificamus te, Half of the people are stoned Let us pray. And for several million years Benedicimus te! And the other half are waiting for the next election. It’s endured all our forums and fine ideas. Gloria Patri, Half the people are drowned VII. Meditation No. 2 It’s been rough but it appears to be winning! Gloria Filio, And the other half are swimming in the wrong direction.* There are people who doubt it and shout it out loud, Et Spiritui Sancto. They call it (on a sequence by Beethoven) Oh they bellow and they bluster ’til they muster up Gloria! Glorious Living, & Orchestra alone a crowd. And, baby, where does that leave you, They can fashion a rebuttal that’s as subtle as a sword, Celebrant You and your kind? * VIII. Epistle: ‘The Word of the Lord’ But they’re never gonna scuttle the Word of the Lord. Glory to God in the Highest and Peace on Earth to Men of Good Will! Choir Celebrant Celebrant and Street Chorus …miserere nobis; Dear Brothers: This is the gospel I preach; and in its No, they’re never gonna scuttle the Word of the Lord! (He is interrupted by the ‘Gloria in excelsis’.) Suscipe deprecationem nostram. service I have suffered hardship like a criminal; yea, even unto imprisonment; but there is no imprisoning the An Older Man $ 2. Gloria in excelsis Street Chorus word of God… Dear Brothers: I think that God has made us apostles the Choir …you and your youth and your mind? most abject of mankind. We hunger and thirst, we are Gloria in excelsis Deo, Nowhere, nowhere, nowhere. A Young Man naked, we are roughly handled, and we have no fixed Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis. Half of the people are stoned Dearly Beloved: Do not be surprised if the world hates abode. They curse us and we bless. They persecute us Laudamus te, And the other half are waiting for the next election… you. We who love our brothers have crossed over to and we suffer it… They treat us as the scum of the earth, Adoramus te, life, but they who do not love, abide in death. Everyone the dregs of humanity, to this very day. Benedicimus te, ^ 4. Trope: ‘Thank You’ who hates his brother is a murderer. Glorificamus te. Soprano Solo A Young Girl Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam: There once were days so bright, Another Young Man Dear Folks: Jim looked very well on my first visit. With Domine Deus, And nights when ev’ry cricket call seemed right, Dear Mom and Dad: Do not feel badly or worry about his head cleanshaven, he looked about nineteen years Rex caelestis, And I sang Gloria, me. Nothing will make me change. Try to understand: old. He says the prison food is very good. For the first Deus Pater omnipotens. Then I sang Gratias Deo. I am now a man. few days he is not allowed any books except his Bible. Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe; I knew a glorious feeling of thank you and… Thank you… 8.559622-23 18 15 8.559622-23 –15– 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 16

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The bend of a willow, Celebrant V. Meditation No. 1 Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris: A friend and a pillow, You can lock up the bold men, Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis; A lover whose eyes Go and lock up your bold men and hold men in tow, @ Orchestra alone Suscipe deprecationem nostram; Could mirror my cries of Gloria… You can stifle all adventure Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis. For a century or so. VI. Gloria Quoniam tu solus Sanctus, And now, it’s strange, Smother hope before it’s risen, Tu solus Dominus, Somehow, though nothing much has really changed, Watch it wizen like a gourd, # 1. GloriaLeonard tibi Bernstein Tu solus Altissimus, Jesu Christe, I miss the Gloria, But you cannot imprison Celebrant and Boys’ ChoirMass Cum Sancto Spiritu; in gloria Dei Patris. I don’t sing Gratias Deo. The Word of the Lord. Gloria tibi, 8.559622-23 Amen. I can’t say quite when it happened, Gloria tibi, But gone is the… thank you… Celebrant and Street Chorus Gloria! % 3. Trope: ‘Half of the People’ No, you cannot imprison Gloria Patri, *This quatrain was a Christmas present from Paul Street Chorus The Word of the Lord. Gloria Filio, Simon. Gratias. L.B. Half the people are drowned Et Spiritui Sancto. And the other half are swimming in the wrong direction. Celebrant Laudamus te, Street Chorus For the Word was at the birth of the beginning, Adoramus te, Amen! Celebrant (speaking) It made the heavens and the earth and set them spinning, Glorificamus te, Half of the people are stoned Let us pray. And for several million years Benedicimus te! And the other half are waiting for the next election. It’s endured all our forums and fine ideas. Gloria Patri, Half the people are drowned VII. Meditation No. 2 It’s been rough but it appears to be winning! Gloria Filio, And the other half are swimming in the wrong direction.* There are people who doubt it and shout it out loud, Et Spiritui Sancto. They call it (on a sequence by Beethoven) Oh they bellow and they bluster ’til they muster up Gloria! Glorious Living, & Orchestra alone a crowd. And, baby, where does that leave you, They can fashion a rebuttal that’s as subtle as a sword, Celebrant You and your kind? * VIII. Epistle: ‘The Word of the Lord’ But they’re never gonna scuttle the Word of the Lord. Glory to God in the Highest and Peace on Earth to Men of Good Will! Choir Celebrant Celebrant and Street Chorus …miserere nobis; Dear Brothers: This is the gospel I preach; and in its No, they’re never gonna scuttle the Word of the Lord! (He is interrupted by the ‘Gloria in excelsis’.) Suscipe deprecationem nostram. service I have suffered hardship like a criminal; yea, even unto imprisonment; but there is no imprisoning the An Older Man $ 2. Gloria in excelsis Street Chorus word of God… Dear Brothers: I think that God has made us apostles the Choir …you and your youth and your mind? most abject of mankind. We hunger and thirst, we are Gloria in excelsis Deo, Nowhere, nowhere, nowhere. A Young Man naked, we are roughly handled, and we have no fixed Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis. Half of the people are stoned Dearly Beloved: Do not be surprised if the world hates abode. They curse us and we bless. They persecute us Laudamus te, And the other half are waiting for the next election… you. We who love our brothers have crossed over to and we suffer it… They treat us as the scum of the earth, Adoramus te, life, but they who do not love, abide in death. Everyone the dregs of humanity, to this very day. Benedicimus te, ^ 4. Trope: ‘Thank You’ who hates his brother is a murderer. Glorificamus te. Soprano Solo A Young Girl Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam: There once were days so bright, Another Young Man Dear Folks: Jim looked very well on my first visit. With Domine Deus, And nights when ev’ry cricket call seemed right, Dear Mom and Dad: Do not feel badly or worry about his head cleanshaven, he looked about nineteen years Rex caelestis, And I sang Gloria, me. Nothing will make me change. Try to understand: old. He says the prison food is very good. For the first Deus Pater omnipotens. Then I sang Gratias Deo. I am now a man. few days he is not allowed any books except his Bible. Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe; I knew a glorious feeling of thank you and… Thank you… –18– 8.559622-23 18 15 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 14

But how far, Lord, but how far can I go? Precor, When I hugged him he smelled so good, a smell of Street Chorus I don’t know. Beatum Michaelem Archangelum, plain clean soap; he smelled like a child when you put …day to follow the night. Ideo precor him to bed. Second Blues Singer Beatum Joannem Baptistam, Preacher If you ask me to join you in some real good vice Sanctos Apostolos Petrum et Paulum. Celebrant And it was good, brother… Now that might be nice Omnes sanctos, All you big men of merit who ferret out flaws, Leonard Bernstein Once or twice. Et vos, fratres, You rely on our compliance with your science and Preacher and Street Chorus Mass But don’t look for sacraments or sacrifice, Orare pro me your laws. And it was good, brother… They’re not worth the price. Ad Dominum Deum nostrum. Find a freedom to demolish while you polish 8.559622-23 It’s easy to have yourself a fine affair. some award, Preacher Your body’s always ready, but your soul’s not there. All Six Solo Singers and Descant But you cannot abolish the Word of the Lord. And it was good, brother… Don’t count on trust, What I say I don’t feel, Come love, come lust. What I feel I don’t show, Celebrant and Street Chorus Preacher and Street Chorus It’s so easy when you just don’t care. What I show isn’t real, No, you cannot abolish the Word of the Lord. And it was goddam good. What is real, Lord, I don’t know, Third Rock Singer No, no, no… Celebrant Preacher What I need I don’t have, I don’t know. For the Word created mud and got it going, God said: Let there be storms. What I have I don’t own, It filled our empty brains with blood and set it flowing, Storms to bring life… What I own I don’t want, First Rock Singer And for thousands of regimes What I want, Lord, I don’t know. Come on, Lord, if you’re so great It’s endured all our follies and fancy schemes. Street Chorus Show me how, where to go. It’s been tough, and yet it seems to be growing! …life in all of its forms, Third Blues Singer Show me now, I can’t wait, O you people of power, your hour is now. Forms such as herds… If you ask me to sing you verse that’s versatile, Maybe it’s too late, Lord. You may plan to rule forever, but you never do somehow! I’ll be glad to beguile you I don’t know. So we wait in silent treason until reason is restored, Preacher For a while. And we wait for the season of the Word of the Lord. …herds and gaggles and swarms, But don’t look for content beneath the style, First Blues Singer We await the season of the Word of the Lord. Swarms that have names… Sit back and smile. Confiteor. We wait, we wait for the Word of the Lord… It’s easy for you to dig my jim jam jive, Street Chorus And, baby, please observe how neatly I survive. Celebrant (speaking) ( IX. Gospel-Sermon: ‘God Said’ …names and numbers and norms. And what could give God forgive you. More positive Preacher Preacher Plain proof that living is easy when you’re half alive. All (speaking) God said: Let there be light. And it was good, brother… God forgive us all. And there was light. All Three Rock Singers Preacher and Street Chorus If I could I’d confess. Celebrant (speaking) Street Chorus And it was good, brother… Good and loud, nice and slow, Lord. God be with you. God said: Let there be night. And there was night. Preacher All Three Blues Singers All (speaking) And it was good, brother… Easy, easy. And with your spirit. Preacher God said: Let there be day. Preacher and Street Chorus –19– Choir Celebrant (speaking) And there was day… And it was goddam good. Beatam Mariam semper Virginem, Let us pray.

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Preacher Street Chorus 8 3. Epiphany What I say I don’t feel, God said: Let there be gnats. …sprats to nourish the rats… Tape Four What I feel I don’t show, Let there be sprats… Oboe solo What I show isn’t real, Preacher What is real, Lord, I don’t know, Street Chorus And all for us big fat cats. Celebrant (speaking) No, no, no… …sprats to gobble the gnats LeonardI confess Bernsteinto Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever I don’t know. So that the sprats… Street Chorus Virgin, to blessedMass Michael the archangel, to blessed I don’t know why ev’ry time …us cats! John the Baptist, to the holy apostles, Peter and Paul… I find a new love Preacher 8.559622-23 I wind up destroying it. …sprats may nourish the rats, Preacher and Street Chorus IV. Confession I don’t know why I’m so crazy-minded Making them fat… Yow! I keep on kind of enjoying it. 9 1. Confiteor Why I drift off to sleep Street Chorus Street Chorus Choir With pledges of deep resolve again, …fat, fine food for the cats. And it was good. Confiteor Deo omnipotenti, Then along comes the day Beatae Mariae semper Virgini, And suddenly they dissolve again. Preacher First Solo and Street Chorus Beato Michaeli Archangelo, I don’t know… And they grew fat, brother… God said it’s good to be poor, Beato Joanni Baptistae, Good men must not be secure; Sanctis Apostolis Petro et Paulo, First Rock Singer and Descant Preacher and Street Chorus So if we steal from you, Omnibus sanctis, What I say I don’t feel, And they grew fat, brother… It’s just to help you stay pure. Et vobis, fratres: What I feel I don’t show, Quia peccavi nimis cogitatione, verbo et opere: What I show isn’t real, Preacher Soloist and Street Chorus Mea culpa, What is real, Lord, I don’t know, All but the gnats, brother… And it was good. Mea maxima culpa. No, no, no… Ideo precor, I don’t know. Preacher and Street Chorus Second Solo and Street Chorus Beatam Mariam semper Virginem, They all grew fearful fat. God said take charge of my zoo, Beatum Michaelem Archangelum, ! 3. Trope: ‘Easy’ I made these creatures for you; Beatum Joannem Baptistam, First Blues Singer Preacher So He won’t mind if we Sanctos Apostolos Petrum et Paulum. Well, I went to the holy man and I confessed, And God saw it was good. Wipe out a species or two. Omnes Sanctos, Look, I can beat my breast Et vos, fratres: With the best. Street Chorus Soloist and Street Chorus Orare pro me And I’ll say almost anything that gets me blessed. God made it be good… And it was good. Ad Dominum Deum nostrum. Upon request. It’s easy to shake the blame for any crime Preacher Third Solo and Street Chorus 0 2. Trope: ‘I Don’t Know’ By trotting out that mea culpa pantomime: Created it good… God said to spread His commands Street Chorus (Men) ‘Yes, yes, I’m sad. To folks in faraway lands; Confiteor, confiteor… I sinned, I’m bad.’ Street Chorus They may not want us there, Then go out and do it one more time. Created the gnats… But, man, it’s out of our hands. First Rock Singer Lord, I could go confess Second Rock Singer Preacher Soloist and Street Chorus Good and loud, nice and slow, I don’t know where to start. …gnats to nourish the sprats… And it was good. Get this load off–20– my chest, There’s so much I could show Yes, but how, Lord, I don’t know. If I opened my heart

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Women Solo Boy, Boys’ Choir and Street Chorus Fourth Solo and Street Chorus Preacher Asperges me, Domine, Kyrie eleison. God said that sex should repulse God said: Let there be day. Hyssopo, et mundabor. Christe eleison! Unless it leads to results; And there was day… Emitte lucem tuam, And so we crowd the world Et veritatem tuam. Street Chorus and Boys’ Choir Full of consenting adults. Street Chorus Ostende nobis, Domine… Alleluia! …day to follow the night. Soloist and Street Chorus Leonard Bernstein Basses 5 2. Thrice-Triple Canon: Dominus vobiscum And it was good. Preacher Mass Domine. Celebrant, Boys’ Choir and Street Chorus And it was good, brother… 8.559622-23 Women Dominus vobiscum. Fifth Solo and Street Chorus Misericordiam tuam. Et cum spiritu tuo. God said it’s good to be meek, Preacher and Street Chorus And so we are once a week; And it was good, brother… Soprani and Celebrant III. Second Introit It may not mean a lot And it was… Vidi aquam egredientem But oh, it’s terribly chic. De templo latere dextro. 6 1. In nomine Patris X. Credo Celebrant (speaking) Soloist and Street Chorus Rest of Street Chorus In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the And it was good. ) 1. Credo in unum Deum Alleluia! Holy Ghost. Tape Five Preacher and Street Chorus Soprani and Celebrant Tape Three God made us the boss. Celebrant (declaiming) Et omnes ad quos pervenit God gave us the cross. I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of Aqua ista salvi facti sunt, Boys’ Choir and Choir (Men) We turned it into a sword heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. Et dicent: In nomine Patris, et Filii, To spread the Word of the Lord. And in one Lord… Et Spiritus Sancti. We use His holy decrees Tutti Amen. To do whatever we please. (He is interrupted by the recording.) Alleluia! Celebrant (speaking) Street Chorus Chorus Boys’ Choir Let us rise and pray. Yeah! Credo in unum Deum, Kyrie eleison. Almighty Father, bless this house. Patrem omnipotentem, And bless and protect all who are assembled in it. Preacher and Street Chorus Factorem caeli et terrae, Street Chorus And it was good! Yeah! Visibilium omnium et invisibilium. Christe eleison. 7 2. Prayer for the Congregation And it was goddam good! Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum, (Chorale: ‘Almighty Father’) Filium Dei unigenitum. Solo Boy and Boys’ Choir Choir Preacher Et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula. Here I go up to the altar of God. Almighty Father, incline thine ear: God said: Let there be light. Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine, In I go, up I go Bless us and all those who have gathered here. And there was light. Deum verum de Deo vero. To God who made me young, Thine angel send us, Genitum, non factum, consubstantialem Patri: To God who made me happy, Who shall defend us all. Street Chorus Per quem omnia facta sunt. To God who makes me happy to be young. And fill with grace God said: Let there be night. Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem All who dwell in this place. And there was night. descendit de caelis. Amen. Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto Ex Maria Virgine: et homo factus est.

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¡ 2. Trope: ‘Non Credo’ Male Group MASS I will lift up my eyes Male Group (interrupting tape) Possibly yes, probably no… To the hills from whence comes my help. Et homo factus est. A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers I will lift up my voice to the Lord, Baritone Solo Text from the liturgy of the Roman Mass Singing Lauda, Laude. Baritone Solo Yes, probably no. Additional texts by Stephen Schwartz For the Lord is my shade, And was made man… Give me a choice, andLeonard Leonard Bernstein Bernstein Is the shade upon my right hand, I never had a choice. And the sun shall not smite me by day Male Group Or I would have been a simple tree, CD 1 Mass Nor the moon by night. And was made man. A barnacle in a silent sea, 8.559622-23 Blessed is the man who loves the Lord, Anything but what I must be: I. Devotions before the Mass Lauda, Lauda, Laude, Baritone Solo A man, And walks in His ways. And you become a man. A man, 1 1. Antiphon: Kyrie eleison Lauda, Lauda, Laude, You, God, chose to become a man. A man! Tape One. In total darkness, pre-recorded sound is Lauda, Lauda di da di day… To pay the earth a small social call. heard coming from the four speakers placed in the All of my days. I tell you, sir, you never were Male Group four corners of the house. A man at all. Possibly yes, probably no… 3 3. Responsory: Alleluia Why? High Soprano and Bass Solo Tape Two You had the choice when to live, Baritone Solo Kyrie eleison. When You knew what you had to do, Six Solo Voices To die, You knew why you had to die. Second Soprano and Alto Soli, Tenor Du bing, du bang, du bong, etc. And then and Baritone Soli Alleluia! Alleluia! etc. Become a god again. Male Group Christe eleison. And then a plaster god like you… Man, II. First Introit (Rondo) Man. 2 2. Hymn and Psalm: ‘A Simple Song’ Male Group Celebrant 4 1. Prefatory Prayers A God like you too… Baritone Solo Sing God a simple song: You chose to die, and then revive again. Lauda, Laude… Street Chorus Baritone Solo You chose, you rose alive again. Make it up as you go along: Kyrie eleison! Has the gall to tell me what to do But I, Lauda, Laude… Christe eleison! To become a man, I don’t know why I should live Sing like you like to sing. Gloria Patri et Filio, To show my respect on my knees… If only to die. God loves all simple things, Et Spiritui Sancto! For God is the simplest of all. Sicut erat in principio Male Group Well, I’m not gonna buy it! Et nunc et semper, Be like a man. I will sing the Lord a new song Et in saecula saeculorum. Male Group To praise Him, to bless Him, to bless the Lord. Amen. Baritone Solo Possibly yes, probably no… I will sing His praises while I live Go genuflect, but don’t expect guarantees. All of my days. Basses Oh, Baritone Solo Introibo ad altare Dei. Just play it dumb, I’ll never say credo. Blessed is the man who loves the Lord, Play it blind, How can anybody say credo? Blessed is the man who praises Him. Tutti But when I go I want to say credo… Lauda, Lauda, Laude, Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam. Then And walks in His ways.–22– Will I become a god again? 8.559622-23 22 11 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 10

Marin Alsop Tape Six Cujus regni non erit finis. Internationally acclaimed for her creative approach to programming and interpretation Choir £ 4. Trope: ‘World without End’ of repertoire from the mainstream to the contemporary, Marin Alsop is an inspirational Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato, Street Chorus (interrupting pre-recorded tape) music director, instilling orchestras with new dynamism and deepening their interaction Passus, et sepultus est. Non erit finis… with audiences and the wider community. She has enjoyed great success as music Et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas. World without end… director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and has retained strong links with all of Et ascendit in caelum: Leonard Bernstein her previous orchestras. From 2002-2008 she was principal conductor of the Sedet ad dexteram Patris, Mezzo-soprano Solo Mass Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and now holds the post of conductor emeritus, as Et iterum venturus est cum gloria judicare vivos Whispers of living, echoes of warning, 8.559622-23 well as being music director laureate of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, where she et mortuos. Phantoms of laughter on the edges of morning. was music director from 1993 to 2005. Since 1992 Alsop has been music director of World without end spins endlessly on, California’s Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, building a devoted audience for ™ 3. Trope: ‘Hurry’ Only the men who lived here are gone, new music and playing to sold-out houses. Mezzo-soprano Solo (interrupting tape) Gone on a permanent vacation, As a guest conductor, Marin Alsop makes regular appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia You said you’d come again. Gone to await the next creation. Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic. European engagements have taken her to the Royal Concertgebouw When? World without end at the end of the world. Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle, Orchestre de Paris, Munich Philharmonic and La Scala Milan. She is one of the few When things got really rough. Lord, don’t you know it’s the end of the world? conductors to perform every season with both the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic. At So you made us all suffer Lord, don’t you care if it all ends today? London’s Southbank Centre, she is the artistic director of The Bernstein Project which runs from September 2009 to July While they got a bit rougher, Sometimes I’d swear that you planned it this way… 2010, and which will range from Mozart with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to Bernstein’s own Mass, Tougher and tougher. Dark are the cities, dead is the ocean, featuring musicians from the National Youth Orchestra and a huge cast of performers drawn from the local community. Well, things are tough enough. Silent and sickly are the remnants of motion. Since beginning her position in Baltimore in September 2007, Alsop has spearheaded educational initiatives So when’s your next appearance on the scene? World without end turns mindlessly round, which reach more than 60,000 school and pre-school students, and in 2008 launched OrchKids, an after-school I’m ready. Never a sentry, never a sound. program designed to provide music education, instruments and mentorship to the city’s neediest young people. Her Hurry. No one to prophesy disaster, ability to transcend traditional barriers was exemplified by her invitation to attend the 2006 annual meeting of the Went to church for clearance and I’m clean No one to help it happen faster. World Economic Forum in Davos and by her delivery of a televised speech on the importance of arts education to And steady. No one to expedite the fall, the National Press Club in Washington D.C. in 2008. A regular presence in the media, she has been profiled in Time Hurry. No one to soil the breeze, and Newsweek, appeared on NBC’s Today Show and was featured as ABC News’s ‘Person of the Week.’ While I’m waiting I can get my bags packed, No one to oil the seas, Musical America’s 2009 Conductor of the Year, Marin Alsop made history in 2007 when she was appointed Flags flown, No one to anything, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, thus becoming the first woman to head a major American Shoes blacked, No one to anything, orchestra. In 2003, she was the first artist to be named Gramophone’s Artist of the Year and to receive the Royal Wings sewn on. No one to anything at all. Philharmonic Society’s Conductor’s Award in the same year, while in 2005, she became the first conductor to be Oh don’t you worry: conferred the USA’s prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. Among her other prizes are a European Women of I could even learn to play the harp. (Recording interrupts.) Achievement Award, a Classical BRIT Award for Best Female Artist and the Royal Philharmonic Society’s BBC You know it. Tape Eight Radio 3 Listeners Award. In Autumn 2008, she became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Show it. and her achievements at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music have been recognized annually with the Hurry. Choir ASCAP award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music. Hurry and come again. Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Her extensive discography includes the Brahms symphonies with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, music by Dominum et vivificantem: Bartók, Bernstein, Takemitsu, Weill and Orff with the Bournemouth Symphony, in addition to a series featuring Tape Seven Qui ex Patre Filioque procedit. American composers. A mainstay of the Naxos recording label, in 2008, Alsop launched a Dvor˘ák symphony cycle Qui cum Patre, et Filio simul adoratur, et with the Baltimore Symphony with the Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’, which immediately became an Choir conglorificatur: international best seller. Born in New York City, Marin Alsop attended Yale University and received her master’s Sedet ad dexteram Patris. Qui locutus est per Prophetas. degree from The Juilliard School. Marin Alsop was the first woman to be awarded the Koussevitsky Conducting Et iterum venturus est cum gloria judicare vivos et Et unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam. 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Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum. No taking back. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum. Who created my life? Et vitam venturi saeculi. Made me come to be? The Grammy Award-winning Baltimore Amen. Who accepts this awful Symphony Orchestra is internationally Responsibility? recognized as having achieved a preeminent Three Soli Is there someone out there? Leonard Bernstein place among the world’s most important You chose… If there is, then who? orchestras. Acclaimed for its uncompromising Hurry and come again… Are you list’ning to this song Mass pursuit of artistic excellence, the BSO has You rose… I’m singing just for you? 8.559622-23 attracted a devoted national and international World without end, end of the world! Photo: Dave Hoffmann following while maintaining deep bonds A man! I believe my singing. throughout the Maryland community through Bags packed, wings sewn… Do you believe it too? innovative education and community outreach End of the world! I believe each note I sing initiatives. A man! But is it getting through? The BSO made musical history in 2005 Wings sewn. when it announced the appointment of Marin Lord, don’t you care? I believe in F sharp. Alsop as its 12th music director, making her You chose! I believe in G. the first woman to lead a major American Hurry! But does it mean a thing to you orchestra. Maestra Alsop’s inaugural concerts Lord, don’t you care? Or should I change my key? in September 2007 marked the dawn of a new You rose! era for the BSO, as she brings her highly praised artistic vision, her dynamic musicianship and her commitment to Hurry! How do you like A-flat? accessibility in classical music to BSO audiences throughout Maryland. Do you believe in C? The BSO is actively involved in recording, broadcasting and podcasting projects which make the BSO’s music ¢ 5. Trope: ‘I Believe in God’ available to audiences around the globe. It has received critical acclaim for its prolific discography, which features Three Soli and Street Chorus Choir renowned artists such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Hélène Grimaud, and violinists Joshua Bell and Hilary Hahn. Amen! Amen! Amen! Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub… Most recently, the BSO has ventured into new media with “Marin Alsop’s Clueless about Classical,” an iTunes podcast series hosted by the Maestra and dedicated to attracting a new generation of classical music lovers. Rock Singer Rock Singer In addition to the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, where the orchestra has performed for 26 years, the BSO Amen! Amen! Amen! Do you believe in anything is a founding partner and the resident orchestra at the new state-of-the-art Music Center at Strathmore, just outside I believe in God, That has to do with me? Washington, D.C. With the opening of Strathmore in February 2005, the BSO became the nation’s only major But does God believe in me? orchestra with year-round venues in two metropolitan areas. I’ll believe in any god Street Chorus If any god there be. I believe in God, That’s a pact. But does God believe in me? Shake on that. I’ll believe in thirty gods No taking back. If they’ll believe in me. That’s a pact. I believe in one God, Shake on that. But then I believe in three. No taking back. I’ll believe in twenty gods If they’ll believe in me. Rock Singer That’s a pact. I’ll believe in sugar and spice, –24– Shake on that. I’ll believe in ev’rything nice;

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The Morgan State University Choir I’ll believe in you and you and you Quia penes Dominum And who… Misericordia et copiosa penes eum redemptio: Dr. Eric Conway, Director Who’ll believe in me? Et ipse redimet Israel ex omnibus iniquitatibus eius. The Morgan State University Choir is one Gloria Patri! of the nation’s most prestigious university Celebrant (speaking) choral ensembles. The choral forces of this Let us pray. Leonard Bernstein critically acclaimed choir include the Let us pray! CD 2 University Choir, which is more than 140 Mass voices strong, and The Morgan Singers— ∞ XI. Meditation No. 3 XIII. The Lord’s Prayer 8.559622-23 approximately forty voices. While classical, gospel and contemporary popular music (De profundis, Part 1) 1 1. Our Father… comprise the choir’s repertoire, the choir is Tape Nine noted for its emphasis on preserving the Celebrant (as if improvising) heritage of the spiritual, especially in the Choir Our Father, who art in heaven, historic practices of performance. The De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine; Hallowed be Thy name. Photo courtesy of MSU Morgan State University Choir has Domine, audi vocem meam! Thy kingdom come, performed for audiences throughout the United States and all over the world. Known for their consistency of Fiant aures tuae intentae Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. excellent performances, the choir probably performs with more major orchestras of the United States than any other Ad vocem obsecrationis meae. Give us this day our daily bread university choir. The choir has shared its musical gifts on many grand stages all over the world, with numerous Si delictorum memoriam servaveris, Domine! And forgive us our trespasses dignitaries and celebrated performers, making them cultural ambassadors for Morgan State University, the City of Quis sustenebit? As we forgive those who trespass against us. Baltimore, the State of Maryland and the United States. Each spring, the choir concludes its season at home with its Sed penes te est peccatorum venia, And lead us not into temptation, annual spring benefit concert, which large audiences enthusiastically anticipate and receive. Ut cum reverentia serviatur tibi. But deliver us from evil. Spero in Dominum, Amen. Sperat anima mea in verbum eius. Peabody Children’s Chorus Spero! 2 2. Trope: ‘I Go On’ Sperat! Celebrant Doreen Falby, Director When the thunder rumbles, The Peabody Children’s Chorus, founded in 1989, is dedicated to providing age-appropriate Celebrant Now the Age of Gold is dead vocal training for young people. Approximately 300 children between the ages of six and 18 Memento, Domine… Remember, O Lord, Thy servants And the dreams we’ve clung to dying to stay young participate each year in three levels of training. Members of the Training Choir (ages six to ten), and handmaids… (ad lib. Names of cast members)… Have left us parched and old instead, the Choristers (ages ten to 14) and the Chamber Singers (ages 12 to 18) rehearse high quality and all here present, whose faith is known to Thee, and When my courage crumbles,

Photo: Will Kirk treble music of advancing challenge and sophistication, and perform in public concert at least for whom we offer up this sacrifice. We beseech Thee, When I feel confused and frail, twice a year. The Peabody Children’s Chorus performs frequently with other arts organizations in the fellowship of communion, graciously to accept it When my spirit falters on decaying altars such as the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Concert Artists of and grant peace to our days. And my illusions fail, Baltimore, the Peabody Conservatory’s Opera Theater and the Peabody Symphony Orchestra. I go on right then, I go on again. The Chorus has performed in masterclasses with Mark Cudek, Vern Falby, Tom Hall, Bobby § XII. Offertory I go on to say McFerrin, John Shirley-Quirk and Webb Wiggins, and has toured in England and France. I will celebrate another day… (De profundis, Part 2) I go on… Boys’ Choir and Choir Exspectat anima mea Dominum If tomorrow tumbles Magis quam custodes auroram. And ev’rything I love is gone, Exspectet Israel Dominum, I will face regret –25–

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All my days, and yet Adonai ts’vaot Jubilant Sykes I will still go on… on… M’lo chol haaretz k’vodo. Laude, Lauda, Laude, American baritone Jubilant Sykes brings a new dimension to the Lauda, Lauda di da di day. Choir traditional career of the classically trained singer by drawing on Baruch ha’ba gospel and jazz influences to deliver performances in differing 3 XIV. Sanctus B’shem Adonai! Leonard Bernstein musical genres. He has had the privilege of working with a number of notable conductors and has been the featured soloist with many Celebrant (shouting) All Voices Onstage Mass of the world’s finest orchestras. His unique gifts have taken him Holy! Holy! Holy Sanctus! Sanctus! 8.559622-23 from such diverse stages as the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Is the lord God of Hosts! Berlin, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and London’s Barbican Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory! 4 XV. Agnus Dei Photo: Terrence McCarthy Centre to the Apollo Theater, Hollywood Bowl, New Orleans Jazz Festival and hundreds of other major venues around the world, Boys’ Choir I and II Soloists of Street Chorus appearing with a number of leading artists from different musical Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, styles. He has had an important artistic partnership with the Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Miserere nobis! legendary American classical guitarist Christopher Parkening, Pleni sunt coeli et terra Gloriae tuae. Miserere nobis! resulting in the acclaimed release of Jubilation for EMI. Two Osanna! recordings for Sony BMG Masterworks are Jubilant, bringing the Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Street Chorus singer together with jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Osanna in excelsis! Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Blanchard, and his crossover recording Wait for Me, featuring Miserere nobis! classic songs by a number of popular composer/entertainers. Celebrant Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi; Mi… Mi… Mi alone is only me. Dona nobis pacem! But mi with sol Pacem! Pacem! Me with soul, Asher Edward Wulfman Mi sol Celebrant (speaking) Means a song is beginning, Hoc est enim Corpus Meum. Asher Edward Wulfman is a sixth grade student at the prestigious American Boychoir School in Princeton, New Is beginning to grow, Hic est enim Calix Sanguinis Mei! Jersey. He began singing at the age of five with the Boston Children’s Opera in Belmont under the direction of Take wing, and rise up singing David Budgell, and has performed with the Boston University Opera, Boston Lyric Opera and Harvard University’s From me and my soul. Street Chorus Lowell House Opera. He is also an accomplished violinist. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh! Dona… nobis… pacem…

Choir Celebrant (speaking) Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh Hostiam puram! Adonai ts’vaot M’lo chol haaretz k’vodo. Street Chorus (Women) Singing: Holy, Holy, Holy, Dona nobis pacem. Lord God of Hosts. All the heavens and earth Celebrant Are full of His glory. Hostiam sanctam…

Three to Six Counter-tenors (Choir only) Street Chorus (Women) Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh Dona nobis pacem. –26–

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sacraments, but notices that the spilled wine resembles broken man, finds his faith again through this Celebrant Choir real blood. “Look, isn’t that odd” he sings in this untarnished simplicity, singing in moving unison with Hostiam immaculatam… Pacem! Pacem! riveting “Fraction” stretch. His agitated, atonal melody the boy. Dona nobis pacem! is actually quoting and recontextualizing the quasi- This is key. That is why Bernstein refused to cut Street Chorus twelve tone row found in the last movement of Meditation No. 2, strongly suggested by the show’s Dona nobis pacem. Celebrant Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. original director, Gordon Davidson, and his advisor, Pacem! Pacem! Panem! Leonard Bernstein The first time the Beethoven is heard is way back in Schuyler Chapin, because they thought the show was the first half during Meditation No. 2. Here, Bernstein too long. Bernstein did not budge in the end because that Street Chorus and Choir Choir Mass creates a menacing theme and variations out of long-range connection had to be maintained. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi; Dona nobis pacem! 8.559622-23 Beethoven’s remarkable 11-note sequence. It is But even more fundamental than Bernstein’s Dona nobis pacem! Dona nobis, nobis pacem, pacem dona. important to the overall structure and meaning of inspired appropriation of Beethoven is the subtle Dona nobis pacem! Bernstein’s conception. argument made in Mass that belief in music is a kind of Pacem! Pacem! Tenor Solo The clue to this might be found in what Bernstein proof of the soul, which strongly suggests a divine We’re not down on our knees, wrote two years after the premiere of Mass as part of his presence. In the Credo, the angry rocker gives up on a Celebrant We’re not praying, Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University, seemingly absent God, so redirects his belief to the one Let us pray! We’re not asking you please, which were televised: “And what about the Finale of thing he knows exists: “I believe in F Sharp / I believe in We’re just saying: Beethoven’s Ninth—that sudden awestruck moment of G.” What seems like cutesy self-referentiality actually Choir Give us peace now and peace to hold on to. recognizing the Divine Presence? … Beethoven has deeper implications for Bernstein. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi… And, God, give us some reason to want to! suspends all tonal harmony, leaving only harmonic In the Sanctus, the Celebrant picks up on this idea, Miserere nobis. Dona nobis, implications; that’s what makes it so suddenly by drawing clever if goofy connections between solfege Dona nobis. awesome, unrooted in earth, extra-terrestrial—so that syllables and their more meaningful homonyms: “Mi Celebrant when earthly harmony does return the incandescent A alone is only me. But me with sol. Me with soul. Means a Non sum dignus, Domine. Tutti Male Soli major triad does indeed cry ‘Brüder!’—Universal song is beginning. Is beginning to grow / Take wing and You worked six days and rested on Sunday. brothers, all emerging together from that non-earthly rise up singing / From me and my soul.” The music has Choir We can tear the whole mess down in one day. Divinity.” that wistful yearning that is the hallmark of Bernstein’s Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi… Give us peace now, and we don’t mean later, That startling, enlightening juxtaposition is style. Miserere nobis. Don’t forget you were once our Creator! certainly the model for the opening of Mass, reborn near In the end, if music originates in the soul and the Dona nobis, the end of the searing, soul-searching journey. After the soul originates with God, then music is as close a proof Celebrant Dona nobis. Celebrant’s tormented, tour de force aria during which as we are going to get. Thus Bernstein and his theatrical I am not worthy, Lord. bits and pieces of what has preceded is recalled (just like double, the Celebrant, are led back to God through their Soli those memory quotes in Beethoven’s finale), he is led belief in music, great mystery and miracle at the center Choir We’ve got quarrels and qualms and such questions, back to the opening simple song (redubbed “secret of this radical, revelatory liturgy. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi! Give us answers, not psalms and suggestions, song”), intoned by a solo boy soprano, whose angelic Dona nobis pacem! Give us peace that we don’t keep on breaking, voice is the sound of innocence. The Celebrant, a Robert Hilferty Give us something or we’ll just start taking! Celebrant Dona nobis, Corpus! Dona nobis.

Choir Street Chorus (Tutti) Pacem! We’re fed up with your heavenly silence, And we only get action with violence, Celebrant So if we can’t have the world we desire, Calix! Lord, we’ll have to set this one on fire! –27–

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Dona nobis, Come on, you know you loved it, blasphemous act by hurling down the holy chalice. Yet pacem, when the street people defiantly demand peace. Dona nobis. You’re dying for more. this apparent sacrilege leads him back to the simple faith Even more in-your-face lyrics are spewed forth, “We’re Wasn’t it smashing expressed at the beginning of this piece in the glorious not down on our knees / We’re not praying,” and later, Tape Ten To see it all come crashing A Simple Song. “We’re fed up with your heavenly silence.” At the time Celebrant Right down to the floor? What is remarkable about this most catholic of of the original performance this also resonated Pa… cem! Right! CatholicLeonard Masses Bernstein is that despite the kaleidoscopic jumble politically with the anti-war movement in Vietnam. You were right, little brothers, of styles—blues, rock, pop, Broadway, Middle Eastern (Remember, Bernstein was a diehard liberal who threw 5 XVI. Fraction: ‘Things Get Broken’ You were right all along. dance, symphonic, marchingMass band, contemporary avant- a fund-raising party for the Black Panthers in his Park Little brothers and sisters, garde atonality,8.559622-23 brutism, solemn hymn, dissonant Avenue apartment in 1970.) Celebrant It was I who was wrong. counterpoint, quasi-medieval melismas—Mass holds Famous pop icon Paul Simon donated a brilliant Pacem! Pa… cem! So earnest, so solemn, together as a unified composition. It is not a messy quatrain, “Half the people are stoned / and the other half Look… As stiff as a column, mish-mash, even with the bongos and kazoos. are waiting for the next election / Half the people are Isn’t that… ‘Lauda, Lauda, Laude’. The opening, three-note Kyrie motif, for instance, drowned / and the other half are swimming in the wrong …odd… Little brothers and sisters, reappears in different guises throughout the piece, from direction” which sums up the lethargy and confusion of Red wine… isn’t red… at all… You were right all along! haunting oboe and flute “epiphany” solos, to electric a generation. In the mocking “God Said” section, there It’s sort of… brown… brown and blue… It’s got to be exciting, guitar riffs. The tritone interval (the augmented fourth), are lyrics such as “God said that sex should repulse / I never noticed that. It’s got to be strong. known as the “devil in music,” also runs throughout the unless it leads to results / and so we crowd the world / What are you staring at? Come on! piece (as it does in West Side Story). On one hand, it can full of consenting adults / And it was good…” Haven’t you ever seen an accident before? Come on and join me, signify doubt, as in the “I Don’t Know” trope; the tritone But his Mass is not all groovy counterculture and Look… Come join in the fun: is also manifested prominently in the Lydian church atheistic rage. Quite the opposite, in spite of the Isn’t that… Shatter and splatter, mode, which Bernstein cleverly employs in his most disarming honesty, doubt and indignation. If you listen …odd… Pitcher and platter, tender passages to signify innocence, sung by the boys more carefully, Bernstein is constructing a kind of Glass shines… brighter… What do we care? choir, as in the Sanctus. There is plenty of Bernstein’s musical theology. He is making a deeply personal When it’s… broken… We won’t be there! signature bouncy lilt of alternating meters. statement about getting lost and finding faith again—the I never noticed that. What does it matter? Mass also features Bernstein’s first use of the rock Gospel According to Lenny, you might say. How easily things get broken. What does it… matter… idiom. Anytime there is some sort of protest, the The fantastic, unforgettable opening of Mass Glass… and brown wine… Our Father, who art in Heaven, composer pulls out the electric guitars and “rock” organ establishes Bernstein’s method and way of thinking. Thick… like blood… Haven’t you ever seen an accident before? (as opposed to the church organ, also used in the piece), The Kyrie is prerecorded and played in a darkened Rich… like honey and blood… Listen… appropriately given rock’s association with rage and auditorium, during which different voices and Hey… don’t you find that funny? Isn’t that… revolution. And there is plenty of protest and unrest in percussion slam up against each other in different keys I mean, it’s supposed to be blood… …odd… the piece. and tempi. The cacophony is brought to an abrupt, I mean, it is blood… We can… be… so still… For instance, in the Credo—which means “I surprising halt with simple open fifths in G major. Thus His… So still and… numb… believe” in Latin, and is the central tenet expressing begins A Simple Song (which is not so simple, and was It was… How easily things get quiet… belief in one God—the Latin text is dutifully sung in transplanted from the cancelled score for Zeffirelli’s St How easily things get broken… …quiet… dispassionate, almost machine-like, automatic fashion Francis film) that introduces the central figure of the What are you staring at? God is very ill… by a choir on a pre-recorded tape. Right after, a “live” Celebrant with guitar in hand. His joyous and uplifting Haven’t you ever seen an accident before? We must… all be very still… rock band kicks in singing lyrics such as “and then a “laudas” soar to the heavens. Come on, come on, admit it, His voice… has grown so small, plaster god like you has the gall to tell me what to do.” That simple song comes back at the end of Mass, Confess it was fun. Almost… not there at all… That is followed by the trope, “I believe in God / but against all odds. The mounting chaos of Dona nobis Wasn’t it? Don’t you cry… does God believe in me? I’ll believe in any god / If any pacem, which finishes with a kind of volcanic jam You know it was exciting Lullaby… god there be.” session, drives the once-content Celebrant to frustration To see what I’ve done. Sleep… The crisis comes to a crescendo in Dona nobis if not madness. He impulsively smashes the holy –28– 8.559622-23 28 5 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 4

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Sleep… Why have you stopped praying? Mass Shh… Stopped your Kyrieing? Shh… Where is your crying and complaining? After his outrageously dynamic 11-year tenure at the “Jeremiah” Symphony and the “Kaddish.” He was Pray, pray… Where is your lying and profaning? New York Philharmonic, during which time he danced thinking bigger than ever. His zany Mass, mixing sacred You sons of men… Where is your agony? from the podium into the telesphere as America’s most and secular texts in wacky and original ways, would be Don’t let… Him die again… Where is your malady? Leonard Bernstein beloved music teacher, Leonard Bernstein was anxious a kind of “Symphony of a Thousand” of the Vietnam Stay, oh stay… Where is your parody to get back to the business of composing. Best known Era—to invoke the great piece of his hero, Gustav DOMINE… Of God… said… Mass for his Broadway masterpiece West Side Story, he had Mahler. It was also his War Requiem, his Carmina Stay… Let there be and there was… 8.559622-23 only produced two works during his legendary Burana, his Symphony of Psalms. Why are you waiting? God said: Let there leadership from 1958 to 1969: the “Kaddish” Symphony He had about three years to put it together. But six Just go on without me. Beatam Mariam semper Virginem, and Chichester Psalms. months before the scheduled premiere, Bernstein was in Stop waiting. Beatam miss the Gloria, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis gave Bernstein an a slight panic because he was in no way close to What is there about me I don’t sing opportunity to get back on the creative track, big time, finished. The born performer in him had not given up That you’ve been respecting Gratias agimus tibi with an irresistible commission: to compose the his globe-trotting baton, and he was also spending And what have you all been Propter magnam inaugural piece for the opening of the newly constructed precious creative time working on a film score for Expecting to see? Gloriam tuamen… Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Franco Zeffirelli’s Brother Sun, Sister Moon, a “flower Take a look, there is nothing Amen. D.C. This was right up his alley. Bernstein wrote: “I’ve power” retelling of the life of St Francis. But me under this, Amen. always wanted to compose a service of one sort or Desperate for a collaborator, he tapped his sister There is nothing you’ll miss! I’m in a hurry another, and I toyed with ecumenical services that Shirley, a playwright agent, who suggested one of her Put it on, and you’ll see And come again. would combine elements from various religions and clients, the young, hip Stephen Schwartz, freshly Anyone of you can be When? sects, of ancient or tribal beliefs, but it never all came famous for the hit musical based on the life of Christ, Anyone of me! You said you’d come… together in my mind until Jacqueline Onassis asked me Godspell. He was, literally, a godsend, and the two hit it What? Come love, come lust… to write a piece dedicated to her late husband... The off, working at a delirious pace to make the deadline. Are you still waiting? It’s so easy if you just don’t care, Mass is also an extremely dramatic event in itself— What they concocted was a riveting drama within Still waiting for me, Lord, don’t you care… it even suggests a theater work.” the framework of the religious service that reflected the Me alone, …if it all ends today… Bernstein was the quintessential theatrical cultural malaise going on in America, if not the world, To sing you into heaven? …profundis clamavi, composer—he even admitted once that even his concert in the early 1970s. The spine of the piece was the Well, you’re on your own. Clamavi ad te, Domine, ad Dominum, ad Dom… works had a “theatrical core”—and ran with the idea standard Roman Catholic liturgical sequence: the Come on, say it, Adonai… like no other could. So he took the centuries-old, Kyrie–Gloria–Credo–Sanctus/Benedictus–Agnus Dei. What has happened to …don’t know, musico-religious ritual, the Roman Catholic liturgy, and They amplified and complicated the form by inserting All of your vocal powers? I don’t nobis… dragged it, kicking and screaming into the 20th century, daring “tropes” and serious “meditations” which Sing it, pray it, Miserere nobis… transforming it into a battleground about the provided a kind of Talmudic commentary, questioning Where’s that mumbo and jumbo Mise… mi… contemporary crisis in faith. He called it Mass: A and challenging the handed-down passages of the I’ve heard for hours? Mi alone is only me… Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers. It had service, usually recited without reflection. Praying and pouting, But mi with so… its premiere on September 8, 1971. It is a visionary Mass weaves within this structure the story of the Braying and shouting litanies, Me with s… period piece that gains more relevance as time goes on. Celebrant and his “congregation”—which Bernstein Chanting epistles, …mi… Born of the same Zeitgeist that produced Hair and calls “street people” made up of singer-dancers—who Bouncing your missals Oh, I suddenly feel ev’ry step I’ve ever taken, Jesus Christ Superstar, Bernstein’s singularly explosive grow increasingly disillusioned, cynical and exasperated On your knees… And my legs are lead. work, featuring everything from bongos to kazoos, with authority, divine and human. The Celebrant, also Go on whining, And I suddenly see ev’ry hand I’ve ever shaken, outdid the eclecticism of West Side Story and Candide, plagued with doubt and unable to play an authority Pining, moaning, intoning, And my arms are dead. while continuing the religious outcries expressed in his figure, has a nervous/spiritual breakdown and commits a Groaning obscenities! I feel ev’ry psalm that I’ve ever sung –29–

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* Turn to wormwood, wormwood on my tongue. Tenor Solo CD 1 65:11 VIII. Epistle: “The Word of the Lord” 5:50 And I wonder, Lauda, Laude, (Celebrant, A Young Man, Another Young Man, Lauda, Lauda, I. Devotions before the Mass Street Chorus, An Older Man, A Young Woman) Oh, I wonder, 1 Antiphon: Kyrie eleison (Pre-recorded tape no. 1) 2:01 Laudate Deum, ( Was I ever really young? (High Soprano, Bass, Soprano 2, Alto, Tenor, Baritone) IX. Gospel-Sermon: “God Said” 4:22 Lauda, Lauda, It’s odd how all my body trembles, 2 Hymn and Psalm: “A Simple Song” 4:11 (Preacher, Street Chorus, Five Solo Voices) Laudate Eum. Like all this mass (Celebrant) X. Credo 3 Responsory:Leonard Alleluia Bernstein (Pre-recorded tape no. 2) 1:09 ) Of glass on the floor. Soprano Solo Two and Tenor Solo Two Credo in unum Deum (Pre-recorded tape no. 5) 1:08 How fine it would be to rest my head, (Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Alto,Mass Tenor, Baritone, Bass) (Celebrant, Choir) Lauda, Lauda, ¡ Trope: “Non Credo” 2:17 And lay me down, Lauda, Laude… II. First Introit (Rondo)8.559622-23 Down in the wine, 4 Prefatory Prayers 5:00 (Street Chorus Male Group, Baritone Solo) “Crucifixus” (Pre-recorded tape no. 6) Which never was really red… Street Chorus (Street Chorus, Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Solo Soprano, …But sort of… Celebrant, Boy Soprano, Boys’ Choir) (Choir) Lauda, Lauda, 5 ™ Trope: “Hurry” 1:20 …brown… Lauda, Laude… Thrice-Triple Canon: Dominus vobiscum 0:42 (Celebrant, Boys’ Choir, Street Chorus) (Mezzo-soprano Solo) And let not… another word… “Sedet ad dexteram Patris” (Pre-recorded tape no. 7) Be spoken… Tutti Voices III. Second Introit (Choir) Oh… Pax tecum. 6 In nomine Patris (Pre-recorded tape no. 3) 1:58 £ Trope: “World without End” 1:39 How easily things get broken. (Boys’ Choir, Choir, Celebrant) (Street Chorus, Mezzo-soprano Solo) Solo Boy Soprano 7 Prayer for the Congregation “Et in Spiritum Sanctum” (Pre-recorded tape no. 8) 6 XVII. Pax: Communion (‘Secret Songs’) Lauda, Lauda, (Chorale: “Almighty Father”) 1:22 (Choir, Three Solo Voices) Lauda, Laude… (Choir) ¢ Trope: “I Believe in God” 2:07 Solo Boy Soprano 8 Epiphany (Pre-recorded tape no. 4) 0:55 (Three Solo Voices, Street Chorus, Rock Singer, Choir) (Celebrant) Sing God a secret song: Celebrant ∞ XI. Meditation No. 3 (De profundis, Part 1) 2:31 Lauda, Laude… Lauda, Lauda, IV. Confession (Choir, Celebrant) Lauda, Lauda, Laude. Lauda, Laude… 9 Confiteor 2:10 Ilya Finkelshteyn, Cello Lauda, Lauda, Laudate. (Choir) § Laude, Deum, 0 XII. Offertory (De profundis, Part 2) 2:13 Entire Company Trope: “I Don’t Know” 1:41 (Boys’ Choir, Choir) Laudate Eum. Almighty Father, incline thine ear: (First Rock Singer and Descant, Second Rock Singer, Bless us and all those who have gathered here. Male Street Chorus) Bass Solo ! Trope: “Easy” 4:51 CD 2 38:50 Thine angel send us, 1 Lauda, Laude, Who shall defend us all; (First Blues Singer, Second Rock Singer, XIII. The Lord’s Prayer 1:18 Lauda, Laude, Second Blues Singer, Third Rock Singer, Third Blues Singer, (Celebrant) And fill with grace 2 Laude Deum, All who dwell in this place. First Rock Singer and Descant, Celebrant, Choir) Trope: “I Go On” 2:25 (Celebrant) Laude Eum. Amen. @ V. Meditation No. 1 5:10 3 XIV. Sanctus 5:10 Boy Solo and Bass Solo VI. Gloria (Celebrant, Boys’ Choir, Choir, Counter-tenors, Voice # Lauda, Lauda, Laudate… The Mass is ended; go in peace. Gloria Tibi 1:55 Street Chorus) (Celebrant, Boys’ Choir) $ 4 XV. Agnus Dei 6:30 Soprano Solo Gloria in Excelsis 1:16 (Choir) (Soloists of Street Chorus, Street Chorus, Celebrant, Choir) Lauda, Laude, Copyright © 1971 Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing % Trope: “Half of the People” 1:00 5 XVI. Fraction: “Things Get Broken” 14:22 Lauda, Lauda, Company LLC. All rights for Leonard Bernstein Music Laudate Deum, (Street Chorus, Choir) (Celebrant) Publishing Company LLC administered by ^ Trope: “Thank You” 2:46 Lauda, Lauda, 6 XVII. Pax: Communion (“Secret Songs”) 9:06 Universal–PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. (Soprano Solo, Street Chorus) Laudate Eum. Copyright renewed. Reproduced by permission. (Boy Soprano, Bass Solo, Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Tenor 1, & VII. Meditation No. 2 –30– 3:39 Tenor 2, Street Chorus, Celebrant, Choir) 8.559622-23 30 3 8.559622-23 559622-23 bk Bernstein 10/6/09 15:32 Page 2

Leonard BERNSTEIN (1918-1990) Mass Leonard Bernstein A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers Mass 8.559622-23 Text from the liturgy of the Roman Mass Additional texts by Stephen Schwartz and Leonard Bernstein Jubilant Sykes, Celebrant

Asher Edward Wulfman, Boy Soprano Morgan State University Choir Dr. Eric Conway, Director Peabody Children’s Chorus Doreen Falby, Director Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop Music Director and Conductor

Street People: Sarah Uriate Berry, Matt Boehler, Susan Derry, Celisse Henderson, Leah Horowitz, Morgan James, Amy Justman, Jodie Langel, Telly Leung, Theresa McCarthy, Mike McGowan, Dan Micciche, Joe Paparella, Max Perlman, Janet Saia, Caesar Samayoa, Timothy Shew, Kevin Vortman, J.D. Webster, Laurie Williamson Casting by: Pat McCorkle, CSA

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AMERICAN CLASSICS

Leonard Bernstein

Photo: Dave Hoffmann 2 CDs Mass BERNSTEIN 8.559622-23 Mass Jubilant Sykes, Baritone Morgan State University Choir • Peabody Children’s Chorus Baltimore Symphony Orchestra • Marin Alsop

All performance photographs: Dave Hoffmann

This recording was made possible through the extraordinary generosity of Deborah and Philip D. English, Sandra Levi Gerstung, Solomon and Elaine Snyder & Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dept. of Neuroscience, the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trust, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thanks: Jonathan Carney, Concertmaster Leslie Stifelman, Music Supervisor Morgan State University Marching Band Melvin Miles, Director –32–

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