It was one year ago today: composer Sarah Kirkland Snider's Mass for the Endangered, performed by Gallicantus and conductor Gabriel Crouch, was released on New Amsterdam / Nonesuch Records. You can hear it again here.
Kirkland's Mass, with a libretto by Nathaniel Bellows, is a celebration of, and an elegy for, the natural world—animals, plants, insects, the planet itself—an appeal for greater awareness, urgency, and action. The piece was originally commissioned by Trinity Church Wall Street.
"Luminous," said the Boston Globe. "A reason to keep falling for classical music."












