Institute Professor John Harbison's "Motteti di Montale," (Collage New Music), received a rave review from Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times. "Harbison's music teems with astringent modernist harmonies, fractured counterpoint and mercurial shifts of mood," Tommasini wrote.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on November 16, 2005 (download PDF).