1st prize, 1993 Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards.

“It seems likely that in the halls where attention is paid to contemporary music, this piece is going to get played a lot . . . The work’s five continuous movements, providing variety in its tempos and climaxes, steadily pursues a remarkable, interesting and appealing development of a single, sizable theme, with all sorts of lively ramifications. Without hankering for the past in its sounds, it makes the present seem a good place to be.” (William Glackin, The Sacramento Bee)