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This week we featured music from the twelfth century at Notre Dame de Paris. The Orlando Consort: Mystery of Notre Dame, Chant and Polyphony, the music of Leonin and Perotin.
Followed by excerpts from Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for the 1971 opening of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. I read that at the premier, Mass was followed by 3 minutes of silence, and then a 30 minute standing ovation.
