Toronto Star music critic William Littler was surprised to get an announcement of a performance of a new concerto dedicated to…him. So he had to go and see why an Edmonton-based composer was honoring a Toronto-based music writer. “It turned out that he had been reading my reviews on the Star’s Web site. The concerto, he explained before its world premiere, represented his way of thanking me.” Naturally Littler stayed for the performance, and reports that “the 24-minute concerto turned out to be a piece worth hearing, with a distinctive musical character and an emotional communicativeness.”