The St. Matthew Passion: A Text for Voices. By John Reeves. Eerdmans, 108 pp., $14.00.
THIS BOOK defies any effort to categorize it according to genre. To begin with, it is a series of meditations on one of the greatest pieces of Western music, J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion. To that end, John Reeves, a composer and radio producer, helpfully includes the English libretto prepared by Edward Elgar and Ivor Atkins.
This little volume, however, attempts a multiple and complex ...