Subtitle from container insert.

Texts from the traditional Latin Mass as well as selections from the Bible, American "shape note" hymns, Samuel Beckett, and David Shapiro.

"John the Revelator was commissined [i.e. commissioned] by WNYC's New sounds live with funds from the New York State Council of the Arts"--Container insert.

Compact disc.

Produced by Phil Kline and Dave Cook.

Performed by Lionheart (Lawrence Lipnik, countertenor ; Michael Ryan-Wenger and John Olund, tenors ; Richard Porterfield and Jeffrey Johnson, baritones ; Kurt-Owen Richards, bass) and Ethel (Cornelius Dufallo, violin ; Ralph Farris, viola ; Dorothy Lawson, cello ; Mary Rowell, violin) with Phil Kline, organ (Credo).

Recorded at the Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, Greenwich Village, New York City, August 2007.

Sung in English and Latin.