"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." Read More...

"The rediscovery inspired Einhorn, a New York-based composer, to composer an oratorio that draws on Medieval musical influences and texts in Latin and Old French to set a haunting scene for the events as they unfold." Read More...

"The Boise Philharmonic's 'Voices of Light,' an oratorio to Carl Dreyer's silent film 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' by Richard Einhorn (Jan. 24). Stunningly moving - especially the angelic College of Idaho's women's choir - the lyrically rich score echoed the film for an engaging evening of multimedia performance."

"...a must see event."

"In any event, the audience that packed the Winter Garden in Lower Manhattan on Thursday night for a free performance seemed too swept away by 'Voices of Light' to care about its category." Read More...

"Einhorn's oratorio aims to soar and complement [Joan of Arc], creating a unique and fascinating combination of the two arts."

"Dreyer's creation...is stunning on its own...But the tumultuous score, with it's echoes of chant and church bells, takes it over the edge."

"...'Voices of Light', a stand-alone piece of considerable substance and beauty...the plaintive lament after Joan's medicinal bleeding is heart-breaking."

"A moving score, expertly performed, sublimely matches one of the great films of all time."

"'Voices of Light' [is] a Triumph..."

"Dreyer and Einhorn together create a harrowing and exalting symbiosis that, once encountered, cannot soon be forgotten... [Einhorn's oratorio is] a substantial and valuable work, combining elements of Renaissance music with the slow, spare, mostly consonant, deeply felt and prayerful strain of contemporary composition that has come to be known as 'holy minimalism' ... subtle, brilliantly effective."

"... instead of using the conventional silent film vocabulary...Mr. Einhorn has composed an oratorio that amplifies and comments on the film, sometimes directly, often obliquely... Musically, the score pivots between Joan's world and ours, using a medieval style that sounds authentically antique for stretches, but that invariably unfolds into a post-Minimalist combination of repeating figures and lush neo-Romantic orchestration."

"['Voices of Light'/'The Passion of Joan of Arc'] is the most successful melding yet of classic cinema and live music...full of deft touches."