TY - SOUND AU - Bernstein,Leonard AU - Titus,Alan AU - Bernstein,Leonard ED - Norman Scribner Chorus. ED - Berkshire Boy Choir. TI - Mass: [a theatre piece for singers, players, and dancers AV - M1500 PY - 1972///] CY - New York PB - Columbia KW - Operas KW - Masses N1 - Sung partly in Latin and partly in English; "Created for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts."; Automatic sequence; Libretto with English translation for the Latin portions, and program notes at end (27 p., ill.) laid in container; Devotions before mass; (7:49) --; First introit; (5:22) --; Second introit; (4:12) --; Confession; (9:30) -- s.2; Meditation #1; (5:10) --; Gloria; (6:45) --; Meditation #2; (3:56) --; Epistle; (5:56) --; Gospel-Sermon; (5:00) -- s.3; Credo; (8:35) --; Meditation #3; (2:50) --; Offertory; (3:00) --; The Lord's Prayer; (4:22) --; Sanctus; (5:15) -- s.4; Agnus Dei; (5:30) --; Fraction; (14:20) --; Pax: Communion; (9:53); 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 ER -