Arthur Bliss thought Bliss's music competent but unremarkable. In 1961, Bliss and Hassall collaborated on a cantata, "The Beatitudes", commissioned for the opening of the new Coventry Cathedral. Reviews were friendly, but the work has rarely been performed since, and has been eclipsed by another choral work written for Coventry at the same time, Britten's "War Requiem". Bliss followed this with two further large-scale choral works, "Mary of Magdala" (1962) and "The Golden Cantata" (1963). Throughout his life, Bliss was vigilant on the state of music in Britain, about which he had written extensively since the 1920s. In 1969 he publicly censured
Piece by Piece Remixed with digital sales of 2,000 copies. In a 2015 interview with "Time", Clarkson revealed that she had commissioned club remixes of the tracks from her seventh studio album "Piece by Piece" (2015) as part of their discussion of foraying into different genres—including a possible dance music album. Some of these tracks include "Heartbeat Song", "Take You High", and "Dance with Me", with the intention of releasing them to music clubs in the future. Following a successful response of her rendition of the title track, "Piece by Piece", on the final season of the television competition series "American Idol" on February