A composition by Eric McIntyre, associate professor of music, included in Orchestra Iowa's celebration of Valentine's Day

Maestro Hankewich delivered a very tightly played, nuanced evening of music-making. I particularly appreciated his inclusion of Grinnell College professor Eric McIntyre's "Drive By." It is a brief, angry fragment of orchestral music, echoing all the violence that drive-by shootings imply. We hear the car coming, and want to duck under our seats as the explosions erupt in the percussion and brass sections of the orchestra. Contemporary orchestral music of quality is hard to come by these days, and the reaching out of Hankewich to a talented young composer is admirable.