Publisher Desc.  This setting of text by James Joyce is a reverent, if not haunting portrait of the night sky. With its soaring melody, the music swells into a tender exultation of "night's sin-dark nave." Joyce's characteristic neologisms abound. A "star-knell" tolls as "upsoaring" clouds surge "voidward," high above the "adoring waste of souls." An unaccompanied version is also available.