WMV has commissioned a new work from composer Stephen M. Cormier. Cormier is a music theorist who has developed a harmonic system based on modal music, like the music of Josquin, Ockeghem, Machaut, and other compositional giants of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. We asked him to compose a work based on the music of Josquin des Prez (ca. 1450-1521). After about a year, he sent us a 50 page score for flugelhorn and piano, “Josquiniana”. It is about a 23 minute work in several sections, and at first listening seems to be both wildly contemporary and very Josquin. Dr. Guericke Christopher Royal and I are planning to premiere the work in September 2026 (it will take me that long to master the piano part!).