Golijov: La Pasion Segun San Marcos (St. Mark Passion)

"Unlike a Protestant Passion, which is about meditating and commenting, this Passion is about enactment and ritual. It is a synthesis of Latin American traditions. Catholicism and the Yoruba religion brought by African slaves. So it's a completely different approach." - Osvaldo Golijov

"Pasión drops like a bomb on the belief that classical music is an exclusively European art. It has a revolutionary air, as if musical history were starting over. With new, sensuous materials and in a new affirmative tone" - Alex Ross, The New Yorker