Stephen E. Bacher responds to Steve Schwartz:

>>The work answers the question of whether a non-believer can write a
>>successful sacred work resoundingly in the affirmative.
>
>Hasn't that been already answered by RVW's work?

Without deciding who was atheist and who agnostic and who a non-traditional
believer and every other nuance, might one not think of Verdi and Brahms
in their resp. requiems?

Yoel