The Philharmonic asked six composers to imagine
the millennium through music.

The pieces show the future is in good hands.
[‥]The most contemplative score is by Satoh :
Kisetsu, which in English means“season”
and expresses the hope of a new era characterized less
by the masculine spirit of war and massacre than
by the femminine qualities of love and kindness. It’s a gogeous piece,
unafraid to be minimal and tonal
(there’s even a key signature)but exquisitely shaped
and full of subtly shifting instrumental colors.[…] 　　

Extracted from the“NEW YORK”(Nov. 29, 1999) by Peter G. Davis.)