America 250: A Classical Portrait

Choral Showcase celebrates America 250 this week with the first in a series of American Masses: the Missa Brevis by Leonard Bernstein and Simple Mass by Alan Hovhaness. We'll also hear Libby Larsen's Missa Gaia: Mass for the Earth.

Show Notes

Leonard Bernstein: Missa Brevis

  • Polyphony; Stephen Layton, conductor

Alan Hovhaness: Simple Mass, Op. 282

  • Gloria Dei Cantores; Elizabeth Patterson, conductor; David Chalmers, organ

Libby Larsen: Missa Gaia: Mass for the Earth

  • Oregon Repertory Singers; Gilbert Seeley, conductor