- Virgil Thomson, Richard Kostelanetz: The work is a setting in the composer's free translation of the Pervigilium Veneris, a collection of rhymed Latin stanzas from the second or fourth century A.D. celebrating the three-day festival of Venus.
- Steve Schwarz: the incredibly beautiful Feast of Love for baritone and chamber ensemble (a real lesson in how to vary orchestral texture and how to continue a musical line)
- Avian Music: a rarely performed setting of an anonymous second century erotic Latin poem in praise of Venus
- Paul Wittke: The music is never openly bacchantic, but as in Lord Byron, its not-so-hidden passions are expressed in civilized, Olympian terms.
- Virgil Thomson: The rhythm is a simultaneous six-against-four, the instrumentation percussive.
- Amazon: Virgil Thomson: Chamber Works



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