Steven Velardo writes: >Even Satie has a sort of Mass, I think. Yes, it is a beautiful work, restrained for Satie, - and it is called Mass for the Poor. On the subject of masses in this century, do not overlook the Janacek Slavonic Mass. Poulenc wrote liturgical music and I believe that there is a mass setting among these. There is also the Bernstein Mass and of course, the Britten War Requiem. And recently I came across a wonderful Frank Martin Mass, Professor Bernard Chasan Physics Department, Boston University