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Richard Wernick (b. 1934)

The Devil's Game

A Brief Meditation On "The Devil's Verse"

Choir

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Details

For
Choir
Product Type
Choir score
Author / Composer
Richard Wernick
Product number
1625923
Duration
3 Minutes
Extent
8 Pages

Description

To celebrate 25 years of excellence and promotion of new concert works, the New York Virtuoso Singers commissioned 25 contemporary composers for 25 new choral works, all of which now appear on their recording, 25 X 25: Twenty-Five Premieres for Twenty-Five Years. Among the 25 is Richard Wernick's The Devil's Game. Here, Wernick uses The Devil's Verse, a Latin palindrome that still puzzles us today as to its meaning, and appropriately embraces repetitive use of the verse in a musical palindrome o...