“In the keen sequences scored by Mr. Tate, you felt new music bonding with old images in rich, provocative and moving ways.”
“…profoundly meditative and exquisitely restrained. Much of it has the feel of classical settings of the Latin mass, but it is distinctly aboriginal in tone…the lines could stand as a statement of will by an artist supremely confident of his intent…the whole orchestra sounds at times to be riding a bolt of lightning.”
“In the keen sequences scored by Mr. Tate, you felt new music bonding with old images in rich, provocative and moving ways.”