11.   His language in these choral works pays homage to Renaissance sacred music but is spiked with bracingly astringent contemporary touches.

12.   I found that Vivaldi was more famous as an opera composer than as a composer for sacred music or even as an instrumental composer.

13.   In its concert of sacred music on Sunday evening at Carnegie Hall, the Kiev Chamber Choir offered evidence that the revival of Ukrainian music has been proceeding apace.

14.   In purely musical terms, there is nothing to set sacred music apart from the secular.

15.   In effect, such changes stemmed from a mandate given to the hymnal committee when the denomination requested a new book of sacred music.

16.   Past and future are both implicit in sacred music, as they are in every ritual.

17.   Sacred art, not least sacred music, preserves ancient ways that may yet have something to teach, or at least spur creative misinterpretation.

18.   The Phantom of the Opera has returned, this time singing sacred music.

19.   The sacred music that matters is inherently conservative, connected to a tradition that words and music proudly uphold.

20.   The works he has occasionally composed to sacred music, for instance, seem to be a matter of taste.