Fascinating article in the Times
Apr. 22nd, 2007 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuToday's NYT Arts & Leisure section has a fascinating article (reg. req.) about Chanticleer's soon-to-be-premiered new work, And On Earth, Peace: A Chanticleer Mass.
The gist of it is that they commissionsed five composers from different faith traidtions to write a piece inspired by each of the five sections of the Ordinary of the Mass. For example, the Jewish composer who was commissioned to write the Credo set the text of the Rambam's thirteen principles of faith, each of which begins Ani Ma'amin (= "I believe" = "Credo")
The gist of it is that they commissionsed five composers from different faith traidtions to write a piece inspired by each of the five sections of the Ordinary of the Mass. For example, the Jewish composer who was commissioned to write the Credo set the text of the Rambam's thirteen principles of faith, each of which begins Ani Ma'amin (= "I believe" = "Credo")