Sep 22 Blog Audio: Teddy Abrams and Jubilant Sykes on Bernstein’s Mass Leonard Bernstein composed Mass for the opening of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and commissioned by Kennedy’s widow, Jacqueline Kennedy. It was controversial at the time, taking the form of a Roman Catholic mass and interweaving new texts from Bernstein, Stephen Schwarz and even Paul Simon. Mass, a gigantic theatrical work, is an amalgamation […] By Daniel Gilliam Sep 22 Blog Audio: Teddy Abrams and Jubilant Sykes on Bernstein’s Mass By Daniel Gilliam