Yesterday the composer got to stand in for our felicitous orchestra-pianist Jerry Noble, a good one-day solution at best. It must be conceded that the person who wrote the music has too many pre-conceived ideas and alternate realities to be a fully reliable executor of the conductor’s interpretation. Here the maestro sets things on the right course.

The American Prize
“strong and grand…a stage-worthy descendant of Ward’s ‘The Crucible.'”
Judges’ comments: The American Prize