Volume 17, Number 5 · October 7, 1971
Non Credo
By Robert Craft
Mass September 8, 1971
by Leonard Bernstein
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.,
Mr. Bernstein's latest musical is his weakest to date. But the title and the mixing of texts 'from the Roman Liturgy and by the composer' (in a proportion of about one line of the former to fifty of the latter) do not amount to the monstrous impertinence one might reasonably, if prejudicially, expect. The work is too insubstantial to wreak any harm more lasting than embarrassment. So the Jewish Defense League should call off its picket line, and RCs may go back to boycotting the Tridentine vernacular and the Ordo Missae.
Review, 1655 words
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