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Dear Cafebabe! Since you really are a „Young Composer“ – I have double checked you profile – and today is your birthday (a special one, at that), first of all, congratulations. Now, to your Oratorio. Without going into detail today, I can only express, that I’ve really enjoyed it! With an overture called “Sinfonia” and an aria for tenor as the second piece, which have this mood and style, I was immediately reminded of Handel's Messiah – perhaps you have already heard it 🙂. Writing an Oratorio is a great challenge, and – if you are not Handel accomplishing it within three weeks – this can be a long lasting, not to say a life-time project. However, don’t think this is a problem. Having such a large, challenging project in mind should be considered as a framework where you can put time after time more pieces into, which has the great advantage that compositions, otherwise produced occasionally, have a place where they are not forgotten or lost. And for that purpose, having a framework which fits different kinds of pieces, the project cannot be ambitious enough. As mentioned in some other comments, the movements can be extended to reach their full potential. But that’s the fun. I’m curious how you’ll proceed in that project over the next years! Wieland