Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” is a mess, but it’s our mess. Written to open the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1971, this way-over-the-top theatrical setting of the traditional Roman ...

Twelve days before a mammoth, collaborative performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers at Baltimore's New Psalmist Baptist Church, a large contingent of ...

Leonard Bernstein wrote his Mass to memorialize John F. Kennedy. But conductor Marin Alsop says that the dizzyingly eclectic work reveals more... Revisiting Bernstein's Immodest 'Mass' Revisiting ...

Leonard Bernstein tried to embrace the whole world when he unleashed his audacious, polystylistic, uninhibitedly theatrical "Mass"in 1971. Despite dire predictions that it would remain chained to its ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Leonard Bernstein poured his heart and soul into "Mass," a setting of the liturgy which touched off a storm of controversy that reached the very pinnacle of power in 1971. U.S.

Two decades after his death, Leonard Bernstein remains pretty much unchallenged as America's foremost composer-conductor. But what was his greatest work? "West Side Story?" Or possibly the opera ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. A July 20 encore presentation of Leonard Bernstein's massive musical Mass, ...

Was Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” his foremost achievement or his biggest embarrassment? Was it a triumphant exploration of faith or a hodgepodge of too many musical languages? Or was it all the above?

Leonard Bernstein — composer, conductor, performer, music educator — was a larger-than-life figure. So it makes sense that he would create a musical piece of epic proportions. His “Mass, A Theatre ...

Leonard Bernstein never stopped searching for answers to age-old questions of life, love and death; never stopped seeking a way to bring disparate peoples together, to make them feel, to care, to hope ...