BERNSTEIN’S MASS in Royal Festival Hall. Large cast of singers, actors and dancers with orchestra.

Music by Leonard Bernstein

Directed by Jude Kelly

Choreography Lea Anderson

Libretto by Stephen Schwartz and Leonard Bernstein

Conductor Marin Alsop

Jesse Blumberg baritone, celebrant

SBC Voicelab

A cast of young performers from Lambeth & Laban

The performances were the culminating event of a nine-month festival known as the Bernstein Project in London.

“Five hundred performers, including a children’s chorus 120 strong, several adult choirs, a brass band from Manchester, and a youth orchestra gathered from several points in Europe, not to mention a large crowd identified as “street people,” turned Mass into just what Bernstein envisioned, a work of renewed faith nearly as gargantuan as the Mahler Eighth, but with bell bottoms.” (Huntley Dent / New York Art 2010)