'Harvey has a magnificent ear for shimmering, startling color, and eerie harmonics seemed to magically hover all around the hall. The soprano Elissa Johnston sang with a sense of transfixing mystical rapture, and Steven Stucky conducted a performance of ravishing beauty.'
Los Angeles Times (Mark Swed) December 2000
'Harvey’s Song Offerings where poetry by Rabindranath Tagore becomes the occasion for a Wagnerian love-death delivered by an ecstatic soprano from out of a humming hive of instruments... creating an extended instant of joy, a marriage of sensuousness and calm.'
The New York Times (Paul Griffiths), 10 October 1997
Los Angeles Times (Mark Swed) December 2000
'Harvey’s Song Offerings where poetry by Rabindranath Tagore becomes the occasion for a Wagnerian love-death delivered by an ecstatic soprano from out of a humming hive of instruments... creating an extended instant of joy, a marriage of sensuousness and calm.'
The New York Times (Paul Griffiths), 10 October 1997