RARIFIED ATMOSPHERE OF ‘MISSA SOLEMNIS’
Bold Semi-Staged ‘ThomasSolemnis’ at S.F. Symphony The audacity of Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas is astounding, bordering on a touch a genius, as he dared to mount a semi-staged performance of Beethoven’s great Latin mass, the Missa Solemnis. It turned a church concert into a grand and vibrant spectacle at Davies Hall, which had to be reconfigured mightily to adapt to unaccustomed theatrical flashpoints. Controversy will surround this venture, of course, just as past stagings of church works like the…