Eastman-Rochester Chorus, Eastman Wind Ensemble To Present Bruckner’s Mass in E Minor
The Eastman-Rochester Chorus and the Eastman Wind Ensemble will present two free performances next month of Anton Bruckner’s Mass in E Minor, considered a masterpiece of blending Renaissance polyphony—independent melodic parts—with Romantic harmonies. The work, for eight voice parts, was commissioned in 1866 to inaugurate the new Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Linz, Austria.…