LA Cathedral’s ‘Misa Azteca’ mixes Catholic faith with Mexico’s indigenous culture

In the early 1990s, Joseph Julián González was driving from Los Angeles to California’s Central Valley, where his family is from, when he suddenly began hearing music unlike anything he had ever heard.

“I heard the ‘Kyrie’ from the Latin Roman High Mass,” González recalled, “but I heard it being played to an Aztec dance rhythm. I heard the whole thing with choir and full orchestra, and I thought somebody must have written this piece before.”

Then it hit him.

“I thought, ‘Wait a minute. I think I’m being inspired right now,’ ” he said with a laugh. González recalled being so excited that he didn’t notice he was driving 96 mph, and the California Highway Patrol pulled him over.

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