‘Itch, dash, suffer, cry, dash,’ voices cry amidst and above the clashing, tumultuous opening sounds of this ‘secular oratorio’ by composer (and co-conductor) Taylor Ho Bynum and librettist Matthea Harvey. Across its four movements, the work brings jazz and classical traditions (represented here by the student ensembles the Coast Jazz Orchestra and the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra respectively) into dynamic musical counterpoint. It throws in a heavy dose of semi-erased Shakespeare too, courtesy of Harvey's interventions on The Tempest, removing most of the text and shaping the retained words and phrases into a contemporary tale of labour relations and rebellion. The recording – made live at Dartmouth's Spaulding Auditorium just before lockdown last year – is available to watch or listen to free of charge. Boldly ambitious in conception and execution – two conductors, two performers (one singer, one improvising instrumentalist) for each character, and two very different approaches to performance (classical and jazz) – it may be best grasped, at least initially, in audiovisual format (Visit: http://bit.ly/3qWjBlo).