Chicago Reader

Frank Garvey peppers much of his talk about art with talk about politics, and vice versa, and somewhere around the intersection of the two emerges his conviction that art should serve the needs of the people. Accordingly, one approaches his concert not knowing whether to expect it to provoke thought or to assault the ears. But one leaves it with a need fulfilled - the perennial human need for music to provide the soul with a mystifying, uplifting, ennobling experience...it is pure, emotionally charged, heartseering, absolute music.