SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE: A Heavenly Mass for the Endangered From Gallicantus
SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE: A Heavenly Mass for the Endangered From Gallicantus
BY STEVEN WINN
“Anything but a dogmatic eco-Mass for like-minded listeners, Snider and Bellows’s collaboration is a meeting of questing, unsettled minds. Like the themes it undertakes — the enlistment of human thought, spiritual commitment and direct action in the face of our shared damage — there are no consoling tonic chords. At several points, this Mass seems to turn back on itself, renounce its own premises, fall into abrupt silences. In a piece that’s all about paying close attention to who and where we are, stillness is its own form of eloquence.”