New York Times Review: 26 Works, New and Old, to Aid Relief in Haiti

The contemporary works were mostly in a consonant and meditative style, though in James MacMillan’s clarinet piece “After the Tryst” Sarah Beaty used the music’s multiphonics and bent pitches to create a kaleidoscopic effect. In Jan Sandstrom’s “Song for Lotta,” Jonathan Greenberg showed how graceful and lyrical a bass trombone can sound, and Rachel Drehmann, a hornist, and Paul Murphy, a trumpeter, presented the gentler sides of their instruments. Ms. Drehmann played Arvo Pärt’s “Spiegel im Spiegel,” and Mr. Murphy performed Alan Hovhaness’s “Prayer of St. Gregory.”

Full Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/arts/music/16metropolis.html?smid=url-share