The Boston Globe, October 19th, 2002
Youth and experience collaborated in the Handel & Haydn Society's performance of Bach's B-Minor Mass last night in a way that was profoundly moving. Many people on the stage have been singing or playing this work for decades; there were also two wonderful newcomers, countertenor Daniel Taylor and tenor Jeffrey Thompson. Music director Grant Llewellyn must have sung in the Mass as a chorister and probably played in it as a cellist, but he had conducted it only once before, during his student days 20 years ago. The chorus and orchestra were superb, and Llewellyn's presence encouraged a signfican...
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