Adams : The Gospel According to the Other Mary. Dudamel.

   in Choir & Organ (Jul, 2014)
Six US and European arts organisations co-commissioned this large-scale companion piece and narrative antipode to John Adams’s millennium oratorio on the Nativity, El Nino. The Gospel According to the Other Mary uses biblical texts and a wide range of poetry from Primo Levi and a majority of female writers from Hildegard of Bingen to Dorothy Day and Rosa Castellano. Christ’s Passion is seen through the eyes of Mary Magdalene, her sister Martha and brother Lazarus, who time-travel as witnesses to some of the many horrors – particularly violence against women – which besmirch contemporary society. Jesus appears not as a character but through the narrative device of a trio of …