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353 days - "Mass"

Composer
Faragó Béla
Original / Hungarian title
353 nap - "Mise"
Foreign language / English title
353 days - "Mass"
Subtitle
For 10 players (with choir ad lib.)
Dedication
In Memoriam Tamás Faragó ("The duration of life on earth is measured differently by everyone. Compared to an ancient redwood, which measures time in thousands of years, a giant tortoise, with its 150-200 years, seems but a child. And what does a beetle feel, that lives no more than a couple of days, or perhaps only a few moments? Everything is relative, yet even this is immaterial, for some things are Eternal. And there is one who lived only 353 days; that was all the time he spent with us. I dedicate this mass to Him, and to those who were likewise granted so short a stay on this Earth."
Year of composition
1995
Type
Ensemble
Number of players
10
Instrumentation
ob., cl., fg. - 2 tr., trb. - perc. - strings: vla., 2 cb. - mixed choir (or choir of equal voices) ad lib. (at least 10 singer)
Duration
18 min
Movements, parts
1. Kyrie
2. Gloria
3. Credo
4. Sanctus
5. Agnus Dei
Text
liturgical
Language
Latin
Commissioned by
Locomusic Ltd. Budapest for the television-series "A Little Evening Music", Budapest 1995
Premiere information
16 April 1996, Merlin Theatre, Budapest; Intermodulation Ensemble, László Tihanyi (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Béla Faragó © 1995 (Kortárs ZeneMűhely © 2008, CHA 12)
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Recordings
BMC CD 023, 1999 - Intermodulation Ensemble, Tomkins Vocal Ensemble, László Tihanyi (cond.)
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