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Christopher G. Roberts | Lake Forest Park, WA USA | 08/08/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Here's an album about us. With piano music I usually turn to sonatas, or preludes, to tell me what was going on in a given time or place. The style, and techniques developed to describe the most important impressions communicated between people, reflect both composer and societal audience, giving us a literature true to the time. Obstructed View is genuine piano literature in this very best sense: the decisions which sculpt these pieces are in the highest order of piano virtuosity while telling the truth about timely concerns upon us today. This is also one case of the program notes really being of joyful consequence - just look at the titles. This composer is honest in her expression of music which is faithful to "shifts in attention and awareness that let us see things in new ways; and in the way our hearts have to shift to accommodate sudden changes, and the ways we have to broaden ourselves to take in opposites at once"."