“The evening most arresting offering was the third and final movement of Aviya Kopelman’s “Widows & Lovers”, which shrugged off the standarized elements of the first two movements to blossom into a dialogue between two beautiful and strange ideas. One was an aggressive series of chordal explosions; the other, utterly unforgettable, was a tender, bluesy rhapsody, full of other-worldly swoops and harmonic bends set over a slow pizzicato bass line.”
Joshua Kosman,
San Francisco Chronicle
