Jennifer Griffith's Dream President was no less entertaining. Sample a few lines: "Have you been naughty again? Do I have to punish you for taking advantage of that--employee? Drop you pants and come to your mistress you bad little boy!," and you might get the drift. Griffith pairs a seductively-attired (dominatrix) singer/speaker with a chamber orchestra, each member of which, at one laugh-inducing point, sings two lines of "We Are the World," when international policy is invoked in the spoken text. The whole piece is whimsical, dreamlike indeed, and it certainly more than kept my attention. At times, I couldn't help being swept up by a gentle yet indescribable wave of nostagia.

--New Music Connoisseur