Co-commissioned by VocalEssence, Philip Brunelle, Artistic Director: Trinity Wall Street, Julian Wachner, Music Director: and Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, Artistic Director. The Faire Starre is a nativity cantata inthree parts. Parts I and III set nativity poems by Richard Crashaw and Thomas Traherne, framing a longer central section setting of a lullaby compiled by John of Grimestone in 1372.
