Steve Schwartz <[log in to unmask]> wrote about Bernard Stevens'
Mass for Double Choir:

>This masterpiece can stand beside the monuments of Vaughan Williams,
>Holst, Britten, Elgar, and Walton without becoming dwarfed or washed
>out.  It's also a bit of an anomaly in Stevens's output.  As far as
>I know, Stevens was an atheist, or at least an agnostic.

So, Vaughan Williams was too, wasn't he?

>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?

 - seb