Mass
Subtitle: [a theatre piece for singers, players, and dancers
By: Text from the liturgy of the Roman Mass. Additional texts by Stephen Schwartz and Leonard Bernstein]
Contributors: Titus, Alan; Norman Scribner Chorus; Berkshire Boy Choir
Publisher: Columbia
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: lat
Subjects: Operas; Masses; Record
Other titles: Leonard Bernstein's Mass; Devotions before mass.; First introit.; Second introit.; Confession.; Agnus Dei.; Fraction.; Pax: Communion.; Meditation #1.; Gloria.; Meditation #2.; Epistle.; Gospel-Sermon.; Credo.; Meditation #3.; Offertory.; Lord's Prayer.; Sanctus.
Notes: "Created for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts."

Libretto with English translation for the Latin portions, and program notes at end (27 p., ill.) laid in container.

Sung by Alan Titus, as the Celebrant, with assisting vocal soloists; Norman Schribner Choir; Berkshire Boy Choir; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre; "Pre-recorded tape interludes"; orchestra of strings, percussion and 2 organs, and "a stage orchestra, in costume, of brass, woodwinds, electric guitars and keyboards, etc."; the composer conducting.

Sung partly in Latin and partly in English.
Table of contents: title: Devotions before mass -- (7:49); title: First introit -- (5:22); title: Second introit -- (4:12); title: Confession -- (9:30) -- s.2.; title: Meditation #1 -- (5:10); title: Gloria -- (6:45); title: Meditation #2 -- (3:56); title: Epistle -- (5:56); title: Gospel-Sermon -- (5:00) -- s.3.; title: Credo -- (8:35); title: Meditation #3 -- (2:50); title: Offertory -- (3:00); title: The Lord's Prayer -- (4:22); title: Sanctus -- (5:15) -- s.4.; title: Agnus Dei -- (5:30); title: Fraction -- (14:20); title: Pax: Communion-- (9:53).