Bernard Chasan wrote:

>I read two reviews.  Richard Dyer in the Boston Globe gave it a rave
>review, while Bernard Holland in the NYTimes was decidedly on the chilly
>side of luke warm.  Dyer is IMHO a fine critic and a true music lover, but
>he also - how shall I say it - tends to treat Boston area artists and
>composers extra gently.

Absolutely agreed about Dyer--the review and the last sentence.  (And
I add Ozawa and the BSO to that statement.) The other Boston paper, the
Herald, also reviewed it.  That review was quite negative.  I don't have it
any more, so I forget the details, but beyond the work, I remember mention
that Levine, and perhaps the orchestra, seemed perfunctory in their
treatment of the work, as if bored.

Roger Hecht