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