Kyrie
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What's a musical offering without an offertory? Yesterday I rewatched Yashujiro Ozu's film Tokyo Story, and had a bit of an epiphany. I realized the word that encapsulates the emotion of the whole album, a Japanese word that expresses the idea of feeling joy and sorrow simultaneously, that is, realizing the wonders in a moment of feeling abject grief as well as the transitoriness of a moment of delight. This minor-key setting of the mass, I think, gets right at that idea. Get Mark's words & pictures by email