“It would be easy to underestimate the credit due to McCutchan for this fascinating and readable book.  She simply turned on the mike, one might suggest, and let the composers speak.  But a less skillful editor, a more ham-fisted interviewer or less insightful musician could have fumbled this process at several points, compromising clarity, continuity, balance or accessibility of the prose.  The fact that she both controlled the process so well and so thoroughly hid the means by which she did so constitutes the greatest strength of a very strong piece of work.”

          -- American Music Teacher