 Robert Hugill for "Music and Vision" called the production "astonishing ... nearly twenty years after its premier", while "City Beat"'s Tom McElfresh called Nixon's score "a character in the drama" and "too intricate, too detailed to qualify as minimalist".Most recently, "The New York Times" writer Anthony Tommasini commended Adams for his work conducting the American Composers Orchestra.The concert, which took place in April 2007 at Carnegie Hall, was a celebratory performance of Adams's work on his sixtieth birthday.