Recordings
April, 1972
"What happened was that Jackie commissioned the thing from Lenny and could not back down.""Well, she knew what she was getting: a Jewish Mass for lapsed Catholics.""Hair, with sacraments.""Actually, it's a disguised allegory: Honey Fitz is God. John is the celebrant and Bobby's kids are the boy sopranos."The reactions of the critics are equally informative. Most find Leonard Bernstein's two-LP Mass (Columbia) blasphemous, boring or in bad taste. In fact, w...
