“The choicest setting has the singer declaiming Dadaesque nonsense accompanied by a chorus of twanging jaw harps, to wonderfully whimsical effect. Also arresting is the third section, in which lines from a Rimbaud poem are sung on one pitchover softly pattering guitar and metallic percussion.”
- John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune
“Tony Arnold offered dramatic, multihued interpretations of the four texts that anchored the work”
-Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times