Exhilarating music to dream by, gorgeous music to pray by | Review (Orlando Sentinel)
By Matthew J. Palm
ORLANDO SENTINEL
Central Floridian composer Daniel Crozier’s “Dream After El Greco” piano concerto had its world premiere in two performances over the weekend by the Bach Festival Society. And though “Dream” is in the title, this isn’t a curl-up-and-go-beddy-bye type of composition.
The clue that the work is more scintillating than soporific is found in the other key part of the title: El Greco. Remember, this was an artist who defied convention and couldn’t be neatly pigeonholed. Crozier’s piano concerto is like that, too.
In pre-performance remarks Sunday afternoon at Knowles Memorial Chapel on the Rollins College campus, Crozier said the composition owed some of its form to the Bach Festival Society musicians.
“As I was orchestrating, I was thinking of them,” he said. “I appreciate their adventurous spirit so much.”
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