Bass-baritone Davóne Tines (“one of the most powerful voices of our time, LA Times) shares a new version of his MASS project together with PUBLIQuartet, the multi-GRAMMY®-nominated improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. MASS explores spirituality and mysticism through varied cultural lenses: following the format of a Christian liturgy, Western European, Afro-American, and 21st-century traditions converge in a single dramatic arc.

Program

J.S. Bach — “Mache dich, mein Herze rein” from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

G.F. Handel — “Leave Me Loathsome Light” from Semele, HWV 58

Traditional Spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan and Eric Byers “Give Me Jesus”

Tyshawn Sorey — From Songs for Death, I. “After ‘Were You There’” arr. Eric Byers

Julius Eastman — Prelude to The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc

Igee Dieudonné and Davóne Tines — Vigil 

Caroline Shaw — MASS

Duke Ellington — Come Sunday

Rhiannon Giddens — At the Purchaser’s Option, arr. PUBLIQuartet

Julia Perry — Prelude for Piano (1946, rev. 1962), arr. Hamilton Berry

Jeff Scott — Blues for Buddy (2024) 5'

(excerpted from musicmondays.org)