OPERAWIRE: Ermonela Jaho, Ricky Ian Gordon & Sarah Kirkland Snider Highlight New CD/DVD Releases
OPERAWIRE: Ermonela Jaho, Ricky Ian Gordon & Sarah Kirkland Snider Highlight New CD/DVD Releases
BY FRANCISCO SALAZAR
“Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider’s latest piece, ‘Mass for the Endangered,’ will be released by New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records. The piece features a libretto by poet/writer Nathaniel Bellows and the English vocal ensemble Gallicantus conducted by Gabriel Crouch.
The six-movement ‘Mass for the Endangered’ is a rumination on the concept of the traditional Catholic Mass, its fidelity enhanced by Snider’s interpolation of traditional Latin text for the ‘Gloria,’ ‘Sanctus/Benedictus,’ and parts of the ‘Kyrie,’ ‘Credo,’ and ‘Agnus Dei.’”