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Acclaimed by the New York Times with citations such as, "Peter Jarvis led the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble in a precise, tactile performance with an elastic pulse", ". . . in a bristling, electric performance by the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble (Peter Jarvis, Michael Frasche, Kenneth Piascik and John Ferrari). One does not often hear so many shouted bravos from this staid audience." and "The Percussion Symphony is another matter. This mammoth work, conducted from memory by Peter Jarvis, seems to be on its way to becoming a genuine 20th-century warhorse - and with good reason."

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The New York Times wrote that Jarvis "led the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble in a precise, tactile performance with an elastic pulse", and that the "Percussion Symphony" was "a mammoth work ... on its way to becoming a genuine 20th-century warhorse" which Jarvis conducted from memory. The Record described Jarvis's conducting of "Percussion Symphony" as "a masterful example of the conductors craft", and praised the way he sculpted the melody in the medieval song by Guillaume Dufay. The New Music Connoisseur mentioned that "While the new music scene abounds with percussionists, only a very few can match the awesome musicianship of Peter Jarvis" and further described his performance of Ron Mazurek's Masked Dances as "the highlight of the evening."

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"Just counting the piece is a major challenge; the rapid meter changes read like an algebra equation: 2/2, 13/16, 5/8, 5+4+3/16, 5/8, etc. Jarvis conducted it from memory. Not only did he keep everything together, but he went a step further, coaxing music from all those boxes and skins and pipes and blocks of wood. The first movement ended with a lazy long slowing-down and lingering ring that was a masterful example of the conductors craft. Sandwiched between the percussive movements of the piece are melodic sections based on a medieval song by Guillaume Dufay. The conductor must do much more than beat time here, he must sculpt melody, and Jarvis did it so a listener forgot to breathe. His musicians, bobbing, twitching and practically dancing at their instruments were obviously having the time of their lives."

"Kudos to the Composers Guild of New Jersey for the generous commissions they provided, and the "indefatigable" Peter Jarvis, as one of the composers admiringly referred to him, who compiled, edited and engraved the music found in this meritorious vibraphone project." - Percussive Notes

"While the new music scene abounds with percussionists, only a very few can match the awesome musicianship of Peter Jarvis. In the seven-minutes long Masked Dances, written as incidental music for a performance of W. B. Yeats' play Calvary, the composer asks for virtuosic playing of the highest order in tandem with electronics. Such a requirement can be fraught with problems, not to mention the always threatening reality of Murphy's Law. Cues have to be very carefully worked out in advance. That all came off without a hint of a hitch and that Mr. Jarvis produced a spectacular solo performance of these wildly rhythmic studies was, in a word, the highlight of the evening." - New Music Connoisseur