Search - Network for New Music, The Crossing :: Lewis Spratlan: Hesperus is Phosphorus

Appearances can be deceiving. Building a libretto from texts ranging from Adrienne Rich and Richard Feynman to the Magnificat, Lewis Spratlan offers a re-examination of our settled views and the discovery entailed in rethinking them from a wider perspective in Vespers Cantata: Hesperus Is Phosphorus, an hour-long, nine-movement work for mixed chorus and chamber ensemble performed here by Philadelphias The Crossing (conducted by Donald Nally) and Network for New Music. a compositional tour de force, absorbing great craftsmanship creative fearlessness. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)