First, I love VW's work -- just about all of it. Even the so-called "minor" work gets under my skin. But if I really get down among the nits, then I can find places "where even Homer nods." Except one piece, very little known, for some reason -- a choral work called "Valiant-for-truth," which sets the relevant section in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. This is NOT part of the opera, but a separate stand-alone a cappella motet, written on the death of a friend. Much of it is unison, and the amount of power he gets from individual notes is in the Webern class. Steve Schwartz