The Anthem 'The dove descending' and 'Introitus' are real children of Stravinsky's later period. The one setting T S Eliot's text (in 1962) and the other a memorial homage to Eliot (1965), they both reveal Stravinsky's gift of textural clarity while remaining true to the serial language in which the pieces were written.
from notes by Lorraine Gwynne © 1991
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