"...musicians belong to the excellent new-music ensemble counter)induction, which has proved a charismatic purveyor of contemporary fare in recent years.
"...Benjamin Fingland, the ensemble’s clarinetist, transformed its whispers and shouts into a compellingly musical performance. The string playing, by the same ensemble that performed the Nono, was propulsive, sharp-edged and tightly knit..."
"If you want to know what is on the collective mind of American music, there is probably more information to be had from small concerts by groups like counter)induction than in major commissions for bigger events."
Most of the time the new-music ensemble counter)induction looks resolutely to the future. But on Saturday evening it turned its gaze inward and back with a program titled ‘Epitaphs: Music in Memoriam.’... in which thoughts of death intertwined with the promise of consolation.”
