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“Good News Mass” incorporates a very large orchestra, a jazz combo, a narrator, R&B and gospel soloists, a gospel choir and a film.

That’s the only way to explain how its bodybuilding exhibitions look like Shakespeare performances, with balconies of people applauding nonstop as a soloist flexes onstage.

Madison Leonard and Kayleigh Decker were the two moving vocal soloists, while members of the Los Angeles Master Chorale provided a blazing ending.

Kantorow made his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall as soloist in Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.”

Vocal soloists, chorus and projection created an immersive love letter to L.A., then and now.