Theater in America: Leonard Bernstein's "Mass"

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Theater in America: Leonard Bernstein's "Mass"

1974

The agency provided description reads as follows: This video is the television premier in Vienna, Austria. It features 200 singers, dancers, and musicians from Yale University, together with 80 choristers from Vienna. The video includes solo and choral singing, mime, and dance played against the backdrop of rock, blues, jazz, and classical music, and is based on the rites of the Catholic mass.

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SNAC Resource ID: 11660903

National Archives at College Park

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Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990

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Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was among the most important conductors of the second half of the 20th Century and also the first American conductor to receive international acclaim. His best-known work is the Broadway musical West Side Story; other works include three symphonies, Chichester Psalms, Serenade after Plato's "Symposium", the original score for the film On the Waterfront, and theater works including On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, and his MASS. Bernstei...