Title

Lumen

Year

1980

Instrumentation

for soprano and organ

Notes

A wild joyful vocalese at the moment of death, inspired by the common theme of an intense and all-pervading light in accounts of the experience of dying. The only text used is from the end of Dante's Paradiso: "I dared to look into that light... in its depths I saw all the elements of the universe fused together by love"

Reviews

"...luminous and playful but has dark and serious undertones"
—Cincinnati Enquirer

"...mostly wordless vocals full of virtuosic sound..."
—Kansas City Times

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