Musicologists & Classical Music Lovers: Contemporary Composers?

[cathwen]

Picking up on Mamselle's medieval theme, one piece I love is Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, an oratorio that is meant to be performed against the backdrop of Carl Dreyer's silent masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc.  The music is modern, but the texts are taken from medieval writers.  The music is beautiful on its own, but when it's performed with the film in the background...wow.