Fools’ Mass

DZieCi presents its signature and seasonal piece Fools? Mass for the fourth year. The creation of Fools? mass began with a study of the Catholic Mass. The group was searching for a way of understanding the Mass that would approach the innocence and acceptance of a child. In the resulting work, an idiot savant choir during the plague (16th cent.) is forced to enact their own mass due to the untimely death of their pastor. Though it sounds grim, the piece is full of buffoonery and comic audience participation. This, along with choral singing of sacred hymns and chants from the 8th through the 17th centuries, combines to create a work that travels from the ridiculous to the sublime.