After learning that Jennifer Higdon was the most performed of our current crop of American composers I bought this recording of her work in great anticipation. I must admit that I was greatly disappointed by both the Concerto for Orchestra and City Scape. Higdon clearly thinks that her music must break new ground of "challenges" to the listener rather than providing a pleasant musical experience, which I'm sure she is capable of producing. Her music is the type that excites academics and some musicians with irs inventiveness, but fails to captivate a concert audience.