REVIEWS OF MUSIC FEATURED ON “A CHORAL BOUQUET”

Birds
LOS ANGELES TIMES “Birds is a humorous madrigal, unabashidly tonal and rhythmically zesty.”

Mass for Our Time
SANTA BARBARA NEWS PRESS “---stunningly beautiful---a masterpiece---powerfully inspired.”
VENTURA COUNTY STAR “--a pantheistic bouquet.” “--refreshingly approachable.”
“The poetry is positive, strong, and unincumbered. So is the music.”
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT “This is a magnificent, highly charged work.”
“---an irrefutable assertion of the human spirit.” “There was scarcely an eye to be found
without its glint of tears as the Agnus Dei whispered to a close---”.
CHORUS (The magazine) “---an accessible, enjoyable half-hour work---” “The neo-classical
harmonic language is solid---”

Paul Revere’s Ride
LOS ANGELES TIMES “Through the medium of chorus, narrator, horn, and percussion,
Biggs brings the Longfellow text vividly to life.”
CAPE BRETON POST (Sydney, Nova Scotia) “This dramatic creation blended choral speech, mono-
logue, music, countrapuntal speech, and timpani most effectively.”