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A sweeping multimedia event illuminates Bolcom's `Songs'; REVIEW: Some 400 performers raised the roof in the climax of a festival honoring composer William Bolcom.(NEWS)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20070430
Author:Anthony, Michael

Byline: Michael Anthony; Staff Writer

Gustav Mahler used to speak of his huge symphonies as universes. "All nature is voiced therein, and it tells of deeply mysterious matters," he said of the Third Symphony.

William Bolcom's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience," which received its local premiere in a powerful performance Saturday night at Orchestra Hall, encompasses similarly large terrain. As Mahler so often did, Bolcom draws on a wide range of musical idioms - from country-western to medieval madrigal.

And his thematic concerns, following those of William Blake, ...

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