"Higdon is a leading light among those American composers who are now settling into their prime."
-- Phillip Scott, Fanfare Magazine
"This gifted composer's orchestral mastery continually surprises the listener."
-- Lawrence Budmen, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
"Higdon's music is lithe and expert."
-- Robert Battey, The Washington Post (Washington, DC)
"Jennifer Higdon's vivid, attractive works have made her a hot commodity lately."
-- Steve Smith, The New York Times (New York City, New York)
"The recent orchestral works of the popular Philadelphia composer Jennifer Higdon are certainly primarily tonal, as well as imaginative, richly orchestrated and accessible, which presumably explains why 'Blue Cathedral' is one of the most frequently performed new works in the United States."
-- The New York Times (New York City, New York)
"Higdon has raced to the head of the class among remarkably gifted American composers of her generation. That she is able to craft such breathtaking complexity and still make it lucid and coherent to performers and audiences alike is nothing short of miraculous."
-- critic Scott MacClelland
"Higdon has written music that is approachable without being dumbed down, and both modern and romantic without descending into pastiche."
-- Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare Magazine
"The American composer Jennifer Higdon... has an authentic creative voice of her own. Higdon's work is striking... The music seems to work more in terms of variety of richly imagined motions... from a fiercely assertive opening the music plunges, soars, hovers, and finally glides through a wondrous trajectory to its blissful ending."
-- Cecil Isaac, The Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, WA)
"There's no denying Higdon's compositional ease or abundance of ideas. Her music has something to say and often does so with eloquence."
-- Lesley Valdes, The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
"Perhaps the most important thing that young composers can take from Higdon is the importance of establishing a strong point of view, a voice that can be confused with nobody else's. Her music is vividly one of a kind."
-- John Fleming, St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, FL)
"Higdon's optimistic works, showy in technique but conservative and graceful in language, emanate from whatever styles appeal to her and are honed by her confidence in what listeners like and her desire that they have it. While neither specifically sacred nor profane... hers is a meeting of modes that could unlock the future."
-- Leslie Kandell, American Record Guide
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