If your Latin was in good shape, you might have found ArvoPart's "Passio" at least an intelligible experience Monday night atOrchestra Hall.
But this contemporary setting of the St. John Passion urgentlydemanded a text in the program book for those who could not meet St.Jerome's Latin Bible eyeball to eyeball. The audience was attentive,but I felt uninvolved. Chamber Music Chicago was offering a workmost appropriate to the season but had failed to recognize a basicneed for words.
Part's score in a recording by the Hilliard Ensemble was acontender for the 1989 Grammy Award for best contemporarycomposition. It lost to Steve Reich's "Different Trains," recordedby …
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