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