But, thankfully, most definitely not so.
Contemporary influences are thus evident throughout.
Set into short pieces, the longest of them 17 being 6 minutes, like most great music this suite too will require repeated playings, different interpretations, for us to be able to fully appreciate and to assess it as a whole. And being foremost a music lover not a critic, I can but offer only my response to it, no technical evaluation. Such a response, though, is probably more in keeping with Elodie Lauten's existential intent. This has been my first encounter with the work of Elodie Lauten. I am happy to say that it has had the same effect on me as when I first heard Fred Delius, Darius Milhaud, Robert Linn and John Adams.