Marcus Maroney writes:

>Maw's Odyssey has been in my collection for some time.  Although it takes
>an immense time investment to listen to the whole piece, I again find it
>rewarding when I find the time--it is extremely well proportioned and has
>a Birtwistle-esque sense of kinetic energy...a massive wall of sound
>constantly moving forward and inviting the listener to follow.

This is, in my opinion, a wonderful piece of music, one of the finest I
know of from the last twenty years or so.  Maw was described on this list
recently as too eager to please.  I think that there are surely easier ways
to please than to write complex 90 minute orchestral works.  Bernard Chasan

Professor Bernard Chasan
Physics Department, Boston University