Missa Gaia/Earth Mass

Capella Regalis Men & Boys Choir will join the All Saints Cathedral Choir to present the Paul Winter Consort's Missa Gaia / Earth Mass at the Cathedral Church of All Saints as part of the Sundays at Four series.

Please note: Admission is free (there will be a free-will offering taken), but pre-registration is required. Click HERE to pre-register. 

Commissioned in 1981 by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, the Earth Mass is a contemporary ecological Mass setting in celebration of the Earth that features two choirs with soloists, an ensemble of instruments comprising soprano sax, oboe, English horn, cello, drums/world percussion, guitar, bass, piano and organ, and the voices of humpback whales, orcas, timber wolves, baby seal pups, and other creatures great and small!

Missa Gaia / Earth Mass will be presented this year on the feast of Saint Francis in its liturgical context of the service of Holy Communion.

See below the remarks of co-composer Paul Halley on the Earth Mass.