From the Space Cowboys Soundtrack
Arranged by Gil Goldstein

Wille Nelson - "Still Crazy After All These Years"

The world premiere performance of the "New Gothic Mass" for choir and organ, in San Francisco. 

Kyle Randall, conductor and composer 
Eric Choate, organist 
Collin Whitfield, assistant music director 

with a choir including: 
Kristina Blehm 
Sam Maurer 
Mark Shattuck 
Collin Whitfield 
Kevin Gino (soloist in the Sanctus) 
David Oorbeck 
and more 

Lyrics:

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus // Holy, Holy, Holy 
Dominus Deus Sabaoth; // Lord God of Hosts; 
pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua // Heaven and earth are full of Your glory 
Hosanna in excelsis // Hosanna in the highest

Note:

I'm thrilled to share this work, and to bring it to realization with the help of some truly amazing musicians. This mass is particularly close to my heart; in some ways it's fairly traditional—it is a mass, after all—but there's something about it that I find intensely new and striking, and I hope this comes through in the recording.

Before I began working on this piece, I had been wanting to write a mass for some time. I tried starting into the project several times, but while each followed the sentiment of the mass and illustrated the words well, something seemed to be missing. I knew that I would only be happy with a setting if it not only brought the words to life but presented a vivid musical interpretation of the idea of a mass. The music, in other words, would need to speak completely for itself.

It wasn't until an extended period of traveling across the country that the right ideas began to come. The Kyrie began to take shape during these travels, and most of that movement came suddenly during a wild thunderstorm in Brooklyn, while I sat in an old building looking out at the stone walls of an old cathedral. The feel of that thunderstorm is still almost tangible to me—as is the peculiar exhilaration and awe that I felt at seeing it after having been away from dramatic weather for years since moving from the east coast to San Francisco—and it stayed with me as I wrote the rest of the mass.

This setting of the mass is particularly dark and tremendous, and some may complain that movements like the Gloria are less celebratory than is conventional. For me, though, this is a sincere and deeply human interpretation. It focuses on the human experience of worship in a way that is perhaps closer to the medieval or Renaissance tradition than to the Classical and Romantic interpretations, embracing the turmoil, fear, awe, wonder, and sublimity inherent in the text and practice of the mass, and refusing to shy away from the intensity of the experience. In this way, I hope it evokes the ageless sentiments of the mass and brings them to the present in a way that feels both ancient and electrifyingly real.

Sanctus

2016 marks the celebration of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy called by Pope Francis, and the 800th anniversary of the Dominican Order. These songs reflect God’s gift of merciful love and the Dominican charism of preaching the Gospel of Mercy.  May this music lift your mind and heart to God, drawing you to be open to the Lord’s abundant gift of mercy. "800 Years of Gospel of Mercy" is copyrighted under LBP Communications. You have permission to download the tracks, share them, and burn or copy them to media, but they may not be sold or money received for any one or more tracks, or total compilation of music. Lyrics and copyright information can be found at http://www.nashvilledominican.org/wp-content/uploads/800-Years-of-Gospel-Mercy-Lyrics_copyright_permissions.pdf

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