Audidistis quia dictum est was commissioned by The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, music director, in celebration of their 25th anniversary season (2012-13). It is an a capella setting of one of the most challenging and controversial passages in the New Testament, wherein Jesus says that we ought to respond to violence with non-violence. Includes piano part for rehearsal. (2011) ca. 4'