This weekend, the Macalester Festival Chorale joins with the Carleton College Community Choir and the St. Paul Civic Symphony in a concert entitled “Glorious Glorias II.”

Under the direction of Robert L. Morris (Macalester), Lawrence Burnett (Carleton College) and Edouard Forner (St. Paul Civic Symphony), the groups will perform the glorias from J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor and Leonard Bernstein’s Missa Brevis.

Bach’s mass is, in a sense, a retrospective of a lifetime’s work, as he completed the Mass near the end of his life, between 1745 and 1750. Bernstein’s Missa Brevis represents a religious vein in the composer’s music. The music is based on incidental choruses Bernstein composed for an adaptation of the Jean Anouilh play, The Lark, about the trial of Joan of Arc.