Apr 13, 2018 - Apr 14, 2018
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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First Parish in Lexington

Missa Gaia - April 13, 14

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First Parish in Lexington will present Paul Winter’s Missa Gaia: A Mass for the Earth on Friday and Saturday, April 13-14, 2018 at 7:30 PM. This profound work, under the musical direction of Rip Jackson and theatrical and dance direction of Maris Wolff, will be a collaboration between the First Parish sanctuary and children’s choirs, the Vermont Dance Collective and a world music ensemble of percussionists, guitar, piano, electric keyboards, soprano sax, oboe, cello and bass. Integrating world music with songs from the Wild to celebrate the whole earth as a sacred space, the Missa Gaia was commissioned by the Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine as a contemporary ecumenical Mass for the Earth. Paul Winter has “achieved a distinguished triumph in combining divergent music styles and imaginatively wedding voices, instrumentation and recorded sounds of a tundra wolf, canyon and musical wrens, harp seals, a flight of loons and singing humpback whales.” There will be an Earth Fair and reception featuring Lexington environmental organizations in Parish Hall after both performances. Tickets will be on sale through the office at First Parish and online.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 seniors and $15 for students. Reduced ticket prices are available for those in need.

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For more information, visit www.fplex.org or call 781-862-8200.

Pre-concert drumming at 7:15 pm.

60-second promo:

6-minute featurette: