Virgil Thomson's The Feast Of Love based on the Pervigilium Veneris Anonymous Latin Stanzas of the 2nd or 4th century A.D. For Baritone Voice and Piano.The Feast Of Love originally for Baritone and Orchestra was commissioned by the Library of Congress and first performed there at the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Birthday Festival on November 1 1964. The soloist was David Clatworthy and theconductor was Walter Hendl. The work is a setting in the composer's free translation of the Pervigilium Veneris a collection of rhymed Latin stanzas from the second or fourth century A.D. celebrating the tree day festival ofvenus.