The New York Times Review of Liza Lim's Composer Portrait

In his review of Liza Lim's Composer Portrait, which opened Miller's new season on Thursday, September 29 featuring the JACK Quartet, The New York Times critic Seth Colter Walls writes that "...the concert — the Miller’s first Composer Portrait of the season — confirmed the ways in which Lim can create drama through experimental conceits." He praised the program, noting "it was all gripping material."

Walls remarked that the U.S. premiere of String Creatures, a work co-commissioned by Miller and performed by cellist Jay Campbell, "...was an invitation to consider a range of discrete ways to produce sound across the two instruments...That work was also a good example of what distinguishes Lim. Her approach is flush with aspects of contemporary experimental music that, in other hands, threaten to become clichés (like harsh, grating string sounds and breathy extended technique). But Lim uses those now-familiar timbres as suspense-fomenting moments in music that has a sure sense of proportion — and an unmistakable direction."

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