Peter Child: Reviews: Clare Cycle
Composed 1984, for soprano, flute and alto flute, oboe, clarinet and bass clarinet,
violin 1, violin 2, viola, 'cello, double bass, percussion, and piano. APNM; CRI

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Collage's second program a nice mixture

The Boston Globe, December 16, 1987
by Richard Dyer

"Clare Cycle" began badly with the first poem uncertainly declaimed against music of little interest. But the following three songs accumulated a remarkable intensity that never let up despite the voluptuous variety of lyric and dramatic emphases; these extraordinary songs are not only settings of the poems but interpretations and even a portrait of the poet. Joan Heller was the virtuosic interpreter. David Hoose conducted.