Twin Cities Daily Planet, Minnesota Orchestra Concert Review, April 2014
“The last pieces on the program were more rarely heard gems: Whitacre’s miniature cello concerto,The River Cam (played with heft and heart-strumming delivery by Anthony Ross), and two selections from Whitacre’s choral work in-progress, Songs of Immortality. These last two selections, loaded with intense emotion and the special vibrancy of new works, showed deeper aspects of the composer as a conductor, with intricate shapings and shadings not seen in the earlier pieces. This zest of music still being created and not yet fully fixed was something special indeed.”
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