Peter Child: Reviews: Tableaux II
Composed 1992, for flute doubling alto flute and piccolo,
Bb clarinet doubling A, and bass clarinets, violin, cello, percussion and piano.



Excerpt from

Born to startle or born to last?

The Boston Globe, Tuesday November 24, 1992
by Richard Buell

Peter Child, whose John Clare settings of a few years ago would be a repertory item in a saner world than the one we have, has brought off in "Tableaux II" (1992) something that seems equally fine - a suggestive-pictorial-dream piece that, by the beautiful sound of it, struck this listener as very exactly imagined, without a note too many or too few in its subtly eventful course.