2015 TOP 10s & 20s — Missy Mazzoli Skip to content Missy Mazzoli Menu About Music Recordings Projects News Events Upcoming Events Events Archive Press Listen Vespers for Violin (excerpt) A Thousand Tongues Breaking the Waves, Overture Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) Vespers for a New Dark Age, Part 4 Press 2015 TOP 10s & 20s Published December 1, 2015 textura “Brooklyn-based composer Missy Mazzoli follows her 2012 release Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt with the equally stellar Vespers for a New Dark Age. Over two years in the making, the classical-electronic-vocal epic dazzles on sonic grounds, brought to life as it is by the all-female ensemble Victoire and drummer Glenn Kotche. Also arresting on conceptual grounds, the work clothes the traditional vespers (from the Latin, the word means “evening”) prayer service in modern garb by replacing the standard sacred verses with poems by Matthew Zapruder. In doing so, Mazzoli’s work questions what role the supernatural plays in a technology-dominated culture and explores what haunts us in this “New Dark Age” we so very definitely find ourselves in.” Online Version See All Press Join the List Join the List Connect Twitter Facebook Instagram © 2022 Missy Mazzoli. All rights reserved. Site by Square Candy Design PUBLISHER All works, except those on the Victoire album Cathedral City, are published by G. Schirmer, Inc. U.S. Rentals: rental@schirmer.com • 845.469.4699 International Rentals Catalog Missy on G. Schirmer For information about works on the Cathedral City album, please email missy@missymazzoli.com. MEDIA & GENERAL INQUIRIES missy@missymazzoli.com <# if ( data.meta.album ) { #>{{ data.meta.album }}<# } #> <# if ( data.meta.artist ) { #>{{ data.meta.artist }}<# } #> <# if ( data.artists && data.meta.artist ) { #> — {{ data.meta.artist }} <# } #> <# } #> <# if ( data.meta.length_formatted ) { #> {{ data.meta.length_formatted }} <# } #>