This late-'80s work finds the composer mixing acoustic and taped material to great effect. The disc's centerpiece is a work that frames 's impressions of his boyhood train trips between his mother in Los Angeles and his father in New York; also intersperses references to the much more harrowing train rides Jews were forced to take to Nazi concentration camps. Using the fine playing of as a base, layers the work with the taped train musings of his governess, a retired Pullman porter, and various Holocaust survivors -- vintage train sounds from the '30s and '40s add to the riveting arrangement. And for some nice contrast, recruits guitarist to create a similarly momentous piece in ( plays live over a multi-tracked tape of ten guitars and two electric basses). Two fine works by in his prime. ~ Stephen Cook