New York Polyphony: Palestrina's "Marcellus Mass"
The second work of the evening was the world premiere of Ivan Moody's Vespers Sequence. In careful, clear program notes, Moody described his goals in his compositions in general and in this new Vespers Sequence in particular: he seeks to "bring the concepts and principles underlying Orthodox spirituality … into dialogue with modernity" … in the "creation of a specifically Orthodox para-liturgical repertoire that …