Title: Amateurish, pretentious
Product review: When I saw this in the store I bought it on impulse. So many of the Naxos American Music series recordings, even of unheard of composers like Carter Pann, have been so good. When I opened it and saw that the composer is 'self-taught', I thought, 'Uh oh!'And, I'm sorry to say, my initial skepticism was borne out. The scenario is pretentious in the extreme, undergirded by half-baked Jungian philosophy. The music itself is amateurish, poorly composed, poorly orchestrated, not terribly well performed.I have a guess: it is conducted by Theodore Kuchar, an excellent conductor. He had premiered it with his Boulder, Colorado, orchestra, and and has now recorded it with the Ukraine National Symphony, of which he is also the conductor. He has made many recordings for Naxos and Marco Polo. I suspect he was allowed to record this twaddle as payback for his Herculean services to the those labels. Is Mohr is cousin or something? It must be something like that.Sheesh.
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