Title: Fonville is wonderful, Reynolds is mediocre
Product review: John Fonville, the flute soloist on Transfigured Wind II is quite good. Sollberger and the San Diego Symphony Ensemble do a nice job on the performance, too. The computer generated tape was masterfully created by Reynold's graduate student TA's although they received no credit for the thousands of hours that they put into the project. "Whispers Out of Time" won a Pulitzer Prize and is quite an ugly work - formless, void, ponderous, uninteresting. Roger Reynolds is a legend in his own mind, without the ears or imagination of a decent journeyman musician. Nonetheless, the disc is worth getting just for Fonville and Transfigured Wind II which is an excellent work. I guess that even a broken clock is right twice a day!
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