The ability of advanced and elaborate composition to project a strong vein of witty inventiveness is best shown here in Time’s Encomium…Wuorinen evidently relishes the technical possibilities of a medium that dispenses with live performers. As with Nancarrow’s Studies for player piano, there’s an element of sending-up the routines of traditional ‘live’ composition which adds greatly to the fun. Yet this is a substantial musical statement, not to be written off as incidental music for an unmade Tom and Jerry cartoon…there’s no denying the power of the musical mind at work here.