The music of Henry Brant, one of America's greatest composers, is best heard live rather than recorded. "Space doesn't record", he said. One aspect of Brant's genius was his extraordinary sense of space, i.e. the positioning of instruments in a hall, hence the following warning for performance of his delightfully irreverent conversation-piece Divinity: "The above prescriptions for positioning players are not optional, they are obligatory." The five brass players are placed at various corners of the hall, "the trombones...as far away from the trumpets as possible" and the horn player out the back door; at certain points they change positions. On my 1987 tour with the amazing Annapolis Brass Quintet, Brant's work was the only piece on our program in which the harpsichord did not need to be amplified. Meeting Brant on the occasion of his visit (3/16/1998) to the Manhattan School of Music, I was able to ask him who the eight little sketches in the Divinity were meant to represent. He replied, "That's ancient history now."