Review: Six Poems from Neruda's Alturas...

Elegance has a place of its own. A piece was played which would be most interesting to hear again in thirty years when it is time to pick a piece to be performed as representative of this year's (1995) I.S.C.M. The American composer David Felder's Six Poems...was extremely elegant varying between explosive energy and austere lyricism, and at the same time so skillfully written that it brought Richard Strauss to mind--if one can imagine a Strauss who landed in today's swarming city life.