Bernstein: Mass (not the one you're thinking of...)
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I just discovered this piece: Leonard Bernstein's Missa Brevis, composed in 1989, for choir, countertenor, and percussion. Composed a year before his death, this is the last piece of choral music he composed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=566jFBephFY -
Not exactly late-period Berstein, having been recycled from incidental music for Anouilh's L'alouette.
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Here's a link to the sources, which as RMix indicates, were composed for Anouilh's play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9lnCZ2yilM&index=8&list=PLT0DBWi6BVZOP-0ZiSg6Ku_1nIMIa53qW
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