Reflecting and honoring Bernstein’s role as an extraordinary educator, The Bernstein Mass Project is a key educational component of the Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds festival, bringing together hundreds of New York City students to explore Bernstein’s 1971 work and its themes of faith, doubt, tolerance, and renewal of tradition.
Conductor Marin Alsop discusses Bernstein’s issues of faith, conflict, and resolution in Mass.
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Since the spring of 2008, New York City public school students have been engaged in a variety of educational initiatives created by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, exploring Bernstein’s Mass and its themes of faith, doubt, tolerance, and renewal of tradition. For the project’s grand finale in the fall, participating students will come together for two programs: the first on October 19, when original student compositions inspired by Bernstein’s Mass will be performed in Zankel Hall, and the second on October 25, when a choir of hundreds of young people will perform the Mass with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the United Palace Theater in Upper Manhattan.
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