The Lark, French and Latin Choruses, for mixed choir or 7 soloists (SSMezTTBB) a cappella, percussion ad libitum, choral score

In 1955, while in the midst of working on a musical version of Voltaire's Candide with the distinguished American playwright Lillian Hellman, Leonard Bernstein composed French and Latin choruses as incidental music to the play The Lark adapted by Miss Hellman from the original French version by Jean Anouilh. Since the drama was about Joan of Arc, Bernstein?s music was deliberately evocative of that Saint?s medieval era.

CONTENIDO:

Part I: French Choruses: Spring Song
Court Song
Soldier's Song
Part II: Latin Choruses: Prelude
Benedictus
Sanctus
Requiem
Gloria