Voices of Light is a stunning evening of music theater. The critically-acclaimed event has brought sold-out houses to their feet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival; at Avery Fisher Hall in New York's Lincoln Center; at the Sydney Opera House; and in dozens of major concert halls across the world. It has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning; on NPR's Performance Today and All Things Considered; and in numerous national publications, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Jan-17-2010 — As part of the New York Encounter festival, Carl Th. Dreyer's controversial 1928 classic silent film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, will be screened at the Marriott Marquis, accompanied by a live performance of Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, the composer's 1994 oratorio inspired by the film.
Voices of Light, inspired by the classic French silent film "The Passion of Joan of Arc," works as a cinematic accompaniment, but it's not movie music. Influenced by minimalism and the likes of Gorecki and Part, Einhorn's music is tonal and accessible. The texts--in Latin and antique French--are from the Bible, and from writings by (mostly) medieval women, including Joan of Arc herself. Joan is represented by the reliably intelligent and well-tuned Anonymous 4 (Ruth Cunningham, Marsha Genensky,...
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Posted: Oct-24-1995
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"About 16 years and more than 100 live performances later, Dreyer's film, 'The Passion of Joan of Arc,' coupled with Einhorn's oratorio, 'Voices of Light,' remains a startling experience, even for those who've seen it before."
